Mátészalka

Mátészalka is a small town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in north-eastern Hungary. It is the second largest town in the county, after . Despite being frequently overlooked by foreign travellers and by Hungarians from other regions, it is a charming place steeped with early 20th-century Jewish history, and Eastern European influences from Soviet times.
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  • Type: Town with 15,200 residents
  • Description: town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary
  • Also known as: Mateszalka” and “Salka

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kocsord.

Village
is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the region of eastern . is situated 5 km east of Mátészalka.

Mátészalka

Latitude
47.9539° or 47° 57′ 14″ north
Longitude
22.3208° or 22° 19′ 15″ east
Population
15,200
Elevation
124 metres (407 feet)
United Nations Location Code
HU MAT
Open location code
8GV4X83C+H8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 286178040
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
717771
Wiki­data ID
Q842976
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Yiddish—“Mátészalka” goes by many names.
  • Basque: Mátészalka
  • Cebuano: Mátészalka
  • Chinese: Mátészalka
  • Chinese: 馬泰紹爾考
  • Chinese: 马泰绍尔考
  • Czech: Mátészalka
  • Danish: Mateszalka
  • Danish: Mátészalka
  • Dutch: Mateszalka
  • Dutch: Mátészalka
  • Esperanto: Mateszalka
  • Esperanto: Mátészalka
  • Estonian: Mátészalka
  • French: Mátészalka
  • German: Mateszalka
  • German: Mátészalka
  • German: Salka
  • Hebrew: מאטסלקה
  • Hungarian: Mátészalka
  • Irish: Mátészalka
  • Italian: Mátészalka
  • Japanese: マーテーサルカ
  • Korean: 마테설커
  • Lombard: Mátészalka
  • Macedo-Romanian: Mátészalka
  • Malay: Mátészalka
  • Min Nan Chinese: Mátészalka
  • Moksha: Матэсалька
  • Persian: ماتسالکا
  • Persian: ماته‌سالکا
  • Persian: ماتیساکا
  • Polish: Mateszalka
  • Polish: Mátészalka
  • Portuguese: Mátészalka
  • Romanian: Mateszalka
  • Romanian: Mátészalka
  • Russian: Матесалька
  • Scots: Mátészalka
  • Serbian: Matesalka
  • Serbian: Mátészalka
  • Serbian: Матесалка
  • Serbo-Croatian: Mátészalka
  • Silesian: Mátészalka
  • Slovak: Mátészalka
  • Slovenian: Mátészalka
  • Spanish: Mátészalka
  • Swedish: Mateszalka
  • Swedish: Mátészalka
  • Ukrainian: Матесалька
  • Vietnamese: Mátészalka
  • Yiddish: מאטעסאלקע

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mátészalka”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.