Košice–okolie District
District
Country	Slovakia
Region (kraj)	Košice Region
Seat	Košice
Area [1]
• Total	1,534.60 km2 (592.51 sq mi)
Population  (2024)[2]
• Total	133,321
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Telephone prefix	055
Vehicle registration plate (until 2022)	KS
Municipalities	114

Košice–okolie District (okres Košice–okolie; Hungarian: Kassa-vidéki járás, lit. 'Košice-Surroundings') is a district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. It surrounds the city of Košice, which serves as the district seat although it does not belong to the district.

The Košice–okolie district was a part of Great Moravia until the 10th century. After the district fell apart, the area was incorporated into Abaúj and Torna, which were counties of the Kingdom of Hungary.

The region was a part of Abaúj-Torna County from 1882 until the end of World War I. It then became part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia.

Excluding a small section in the north, the district formed a part of Abovsko-turnianská župa of the county of Šariš from 1918 to 1923. From 1923 to 1928, the Košice–okolie district was considered to be a part of Košická župa. From 1923 to 1938, the district was considered to be Slovak land. After the First Vienna Award in 1938, the district was divided between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany. After World War II, the region became known as the district of Košice-vidiek, which is part of Košický kraj. The district of Košice-okolie was established in 1997.^[3]

It has a population of 133,321 people (31 December 2024).^[7]

In year 2021 was 140,827 people by ethnicity 105,563 as Slovak, 12,550 as Hungarian, 12,378 as Romani, 7522 as Not found out, 700 as Rusyn, 663 as German, 571 as Czech, 288 as Other, 152 as Ukrainian, 121 as Russian, 92 as Polish, 34 as English, 23 as Jewish, 21 as Moravian, 18 as Italian, 17 as French, 15 as Serbian, 13 as Irish, 11 as Vietnamese, 10 as Austrian, 10 as Greek, 10 as Bulgarian, 10 as Albanian, 9 as Croatian, 8 as Canadian, 7 as Romanian, 4 as Chinese, 3 as Silesian, 2 as Iranian, 1 as Turkish and 1 as Korean.

Note on population: The difference between the population numbers above and in the census (here and below) is that the population numbers above are mostly made up of permanent residents, etc.; and the census should indicate the place where people actually mainly live.
For example, a student is a citizen of a village because they have permanent residence there (they lived there as a child and has parents), but most of the time he studies at a university in the city.

In year 2021 was 128,346 people by religion 82,011 from Roman Catholic Church, 18,664 from None, 7421 from Not found out, 6705 from Calvinist Church, 5696 from Greek Catholic Church, 4628 from Evangelical Church, 583 from Jehovah's Witnesses, 515 from Apostolic Church, 489 from Eastern Orthodox Church, 415 from Christian Congregations in Slovakia, 241 from Other, 230 from Ad hoc movements, 190 from Seventh-day Adventist Church, 161 from Other and not ascertained christian church, 64 from Buddhism, 63 from Baptists Church, 60 from Paganism and natural spirituality, 55 from United Methodist Church, 50 from Islam, 36 from Old Catholic Church, 19 from Jewish community, 17 from Hinduism, 14 from Church of the Brethren, 8 from Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5 from New Apostolic Church, 4 from Czechoslovak Hussite Church and 2 from Bahá'i Community.

Population and area values are current for year 2024.

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