Kazincbarcika is an industrial town in Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen county in northern Hungary, in the valley of the Sajo river 24 kilometers from the county capital Miskolc, with a population of 29,256 at the 2010 census across 36.64 square kilometers. It was created after the Second World War by merging the villages of Sajokazinc and Barcika as part of socialist-era industrialization, gaining town status in 1954 with about 11,000 residents, and grew rapidly to 30,000 by the 1970s around the BorsodChem chemical factory founded in 1949.
Facts
Area (sq km) Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude48.253056 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Kazincbarcika (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 23,608 (2025)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 48.253056, longitude 20.645556
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 137 m
P2046 (area)
area 36.7 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 23608 (2025)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Kazincbarcika - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 719311
48.25 20.63333 P PPLA2 HU 04 32396 185 Europe/Budapest
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 185 m
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 48.25, 20.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 48.25, 20.75
48.25 20.75 Cfb
Kazincbarcika (Wikipedia)
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