Karcag

Karcag is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County, in the Northern Great Plain Region of central Hungary.

Karcag has its own railway station, but InterCity trains do not stop here.

Twin towns – Sister cities
Karcag is twinned with:


 * 🇷🇴 Cristuru Secuiesc, Romania (1990)
 * 🇷🇸 Stara Moravica, Serbia (1994)
 * 🇸🇰 Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia (1998)
 * 🇰🇿 Merki, Kazakhstan (1999)
 * 🇩🇪 Schwarzheide, Germany (2002)
 * 🇵🇱 Krosno Odrzańskie, Poland (2004)
 * 🇫🇷 Longueau, France (2004)
 * 🇭🇺 Kunszentmiklós, Hungary (2009)

Famous people

 * Colonel Michael de Kovats (1724–79), the father of the US cavalry, a Hungarian hussar was born in Karcag
 * Avram Hershko (born 1937 as Herskó Ferenc), Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry
 * Mihály Varga (born 1965), since 7 March 2013 Minister of National Economy of Hungary, Minister of Finance of Hungary 2001-2002 and one of four Fidesz VPs since 2005.

Geography
It covers an area of 368.63 km2 and has a population of 22,579 people (2001).