Economical and social characterization of region of the North Great Plain

Society:

• population: 1,550,000 people
• population density: 87.5 p/
• population of the North Great Plain is constant the annual variation is only 0.03%.
• unemployment: 90,000 people are not employed
• there are not small cities: people live in villages and large cities,  this evolved under the Turkish Reign
• Gipsy population is about 50,000
• religion.-1,150,000 people are members of a religious group
• the most popular churches-Catholic /550,000 p./
• Calvinist /550,000 p./

Economy:

• landscape: it is a plain, so the variation of height not reaches 200m
• it is poor in minerals /except some recourses/
• it has good soil and climate
• agriculture and processing industry, which settled on it, is developed
• the development of the infrastructure is under the territorial (országos) average

Counties of the North Plain:-Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county

• Hajdú-Bihar county
• Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county

There are big differences between the counties inside the region.:

• H.-B. c.:-It has multi-faceted agriculture and industry.
• Debrecen has central role.
• J.-N.-Sz. c.:-Mean developed (közepesen fejlett) area.
• Sz.-Sz.-B. c.:-It is at a disadvantage (hátrányos helyzetben van).-small settlements
• high rate of unemployment
• unfavourable soil attributes (talajadottságok)

Hajdú-Bihar County:

Minerals (ásványkincsek):

• the natural gas extraction (kitermelés) is significant and there is a bit mineral oil extraction

Industry:-industry is settled in the cities

• Debrecen has multi-faced industry:-chemical-, food-, press industry and production of agricultural machines and bearing (csapágy)
• Other cities with factories:-Hajdúszoboszló-chemical industry
• Téglás-production of machines

Agriculture:-in this county agriculture has an important role

• main cultivated plants:-wheat
• corn
• potato
• sugar-beet
• animal breeding:-cow-9% of the Hungarian substance is in this county
• swine-10%
• sheep-20%

Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County:

Minerals:

• extraction of the natural gas and mineral oil is should be noted
• extraction of raw materials of the building industry is significant-sand
• clay

Industry:

• it is settled in the cities
• leading branches:-machine industry-Jászberény
• Szolnok
• food industry-poultry processing-Törökszentmiklós
• milk industry-Tiszafüred
• mill industry-Törökszentmiklós
• sugar industry-Szolnok
• vegetable oil and bier production-Martfű
• baking industry-Szolnok
• other existing branches in this county: -chemical industry-Szolnok
• paper industry-Szolnok
• furniture industry-Szolnok
• shoe production-Martfű

Agriculture:-in this county agriculture has an important role

• main cultivated plants:-wheat
• sunflower
• corn
• sugar-beet
• alfalfa (lucerna)
• rice-90% of the Hungarian rice casting area (vetőterület) is in this county
• animal breeding: -there is about 7-8% of the Hungarian substance of swine, cow and sheep
• there are about 4000 horses
• and more than one million poultries

Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County:
Minerals:

• only sand, and clay are extracted in this county

Industry:

• leading branch:-food industry-Kisvárda
• other important branches in this county:-chemical industry
• textile industry
• machine industry
• wood industry-Vásárosnamény
• Tuzsér
• centres of the industry:-Nyíregyháza:-food industry
• gum industry (gumiipar)
• Tiszavasvári:-medical industry
• Nyírbátor:-shoe industry
• Záhony:-its industry is built on the border traffic

Agriculture:

• main cultivated plants:-field (szántóföldi) plants-wheat, corn, sugar-beet and potato
• fruits-apple, plum, cherry and nut
• animal breeding:-there is about 5% of the Hungarian substance of swine and cow
• there is 16.5% of the Hungarian substance of sheep
• there is about 6.5% of the Hungarian substance of poultry