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Mezőkövesd

Eastern Europe

Mezokovesd is a town in Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen county in northern Hungary, about 50 kilometers from Miskolc and 15 kilometers from Eger. Thermal springs discovered in the town in 1938 have become a major tourist draw, and the town is closely associated with the Matyo people, whose folk embroidery is considered among the finest examples of Hungarian folk art. The towns population peaked at 21,000 in 1941 and stood at 16,905 in 2008.

Facts
Population
17,701 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 2
Climate Zone
Temperate 3
Time Zone
UTC+01:00 4
Sources
1. GeoNames: Mezőkövesd
GeoNames geonameid 717652 (Mezőkövesd), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source
2. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Mezőkövesd coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevation
Quote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 122.0 ]
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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 47.75, 20.75
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 47.75, 20.75
47.75 20.75 Cfb
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4. GeoNames: Mezőkövesd - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 717652, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
Quote, cities500 record 717652, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
47.81667 20.58333 P PPLA2 HU 04 17701 117 Europe/Budapest
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Mezokovesd (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Eastern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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