Szigetszentmiklós

Szigetszentmiklós (Nigglau) is a town in Pest County, Central Hungary Region, Hungary.

Location
Szigetszentmiklós is located south of Budapest in the Csepel Island on the Danube river in Ráckeve Region.

History
After the Árpád dynasty was established, the region of today's Ráckeve belonged to the Hungarian king.

Szigetszentmiklós became a town in January 1986.

Ethnicity

 * Hungarian: 91.3%
 * German: 0.6%
 * Slovak: 0.6%
 * Romani: 0.5%
 * Bulgarians: 0.2%
 * Ukrainian: 0.1%
 * Other/Undeclared: 8.5%

Religious denomination

 * Roman Catholic: 35.9%
 * Greek Catholic: 2.2%
 * Calvinist: 21.4%
 * Lutheran: 1.0%
 * Other denomination: 2.1%
 * Non-religious: 20.7%
 * Undeclared: 16.6%

(Source: 2003, KSH)

Twin towns — Sister cities
Szigetszentmiklós is a twinned with:


 * 🇫🇮 Haukipudas (1992), Oulu Province, Finland
 * 🇷🇴 Gheorgheni (1996), Harghita County, Romania
 * 🇵🇱 Busko-Zdrój (2003), Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland
 * 🇮🇹 Specchia (2003), Apulia, Italy
 * 🇩🇪 Steinheim, Westphalia (2003), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
 * 🇧🇬 Gorna Oryahovitsa (2004), Veliko Tarnovo Province, Bulgaria
 * 🇲🇰 Kočani (2004), Kočani municipality, Republic of Macedonia

Planned

 * 🇩🇪 Wehr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
 * 🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer, Nord-Pas de Calais, France