Somogy

Somogy is an administrative county comitatus or megye in present Hungary, and additionally within the former Kingdom of Hungary. Somogy turned into also the call of a ancient administrative county comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which turned into barely larger than that of gift Somogy County, is now in south-western Hungary. The capital of the county changed into and nonetheless is Kaposvar. Somogy County lies in south-western Hungary, on the border with Croatia. It stretches among the river Drava and the southern shore of Lake Balaton. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties of Zala, Veszprém, Fejer, Tolna, and Baranya.

It is the maximum carefully populated county in Hungary. Besides the Hungarian majority, the principle minorities are the Roma approx. 16,000, Germans three,000 and Croats 1,500.Total population 2011 census: 316,137 Ethnic organizations 2011 census Identified themselves: 287,692 folks.