Pusztaottlaka
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Pusztaottlaka is a village
Village
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 in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain
Southern Great Plain
Southern Great Plain is a statistical region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North region. Southern Great Plain includes the 3 counties:* Bács-Kiskun* Békés* Csongrád...

 region
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 of south-east Hungary
Hungary
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Geography

It covers an area
Area
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 of 18.88 km² and has a population
Population
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 of 471 people (2002).

Population

According to the last census in 2001 Pusztaottlaka/Otlaca-Pusta had a population of 437 people. The majority of the population is Hungarian with a 17% Romanian minority (74 people who spoke Romanian as a mother language).

Religion

According to the last census in 2001 133 people belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, 40 were Lutherans and 140 people followed "another faith". In the case of Pusztaottlaka/Otlaca-Pusta the latters are mainly Orthodox Romanians.

Name

Pusztaottlaka means "dwelling place on the puszta" in Hungarian. The Romanian name is the transliteration of the Hungarian one.
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