Karcag
Karcag is a large town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.
Geography
Karcag covers an area of and has a population of 20,632 people.Transport
Karcag has its own railway station, but InterCity trains do not stop here.Politics
The current mayor of Karcag is László Dobos.The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 12 members divided into this political parties and alliances:
Twin towns – sister cities
Karcag is twinned with:- Cristuru Secuiesc, Romania
- Kunszentmiklós, Hungary
- Lazdijai, Lithuania
- Lednice, Czech Republic
- Merki District, Kazakhstan
- Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia
- Schwarzheide, Germany
- Stara Moravica, Serbia
Notable people
- , the last speaker of the Cuman language
- Colonel Michael de Kovats, the father of the US cavalry, a Hungarian hussar was born in Karcag
- Gyula Németh, Hungarian Turkologist, linguist
- Avram Hershko, Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Margit Sebők, painter and educator
- Kevin Varga, footballer
- Mihály Varga, politician, since 2013 Minister of National Economy
- Suzi Diamond, Holocaust survivor.