Elek is a town in Békés County in the Southern Great Plain of southeastern Hungary. Until the Second World War it held the largest concentration of Germans in the county, a population almost entirely Swabian, alongside a Jewish community established in the 19th century that was largely destroyed in the 1944 Holocaust.
Facts
Founding Year Founding Year Climate Zone Sources
1. Elek (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 4,231 (2025)
2. Wikipedia (Hungarian): Elek (település)
Wikipedia (Hungarian)Source text, founding-year-range-start: 1232
Elek nevét elsőként 1232 -ben említik.
Source text, founding-year-range-end: 1232
Elek nevét elsőként 1232 -ben említik.
Source text, founding-year: 1232
Elek nevét elsőként 1232 -ben említik.
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 46.75, 21.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 46.75, 21.25
46.75 21.25 Cfb
4. GeoNames: Elek - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 721189, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 721189, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
46.53333 21.25 P PPL HU 03 5465 93 Europe/Budapest
Elek (Wikipedia)
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