Zala

Zala is an administrative county comitatus or megye in south-western Hungary. It is called after the Zala River. It shares borders with Croatia and Slovenia and the Hungarian counties Vas, Veszprém and Somogy. The capital of Zala County is Zalaegerszeg. Its location is three,784 rectangular kilometres 1,461 squaremi. Lake Balaton lies in part inside the county. In the tenth century, the Hungarian Nyek tribe occupied the place round Lake Balaton.

Their occupation became in particular inside the areas recognised today as Zala and Somogy counties. Parts of the western territory of the former county of Zala are actually part of Slovenia South-Prekmurje. In 1919 it turned into a part of the unrecognized nation of the Republic of Prekmurje, which existed for just six days. Besides the Hungarian majority, the primary minorities are the Roma approx. 7,000, Croats 3,500 and Germans 2,000. Total population 2011 census: 282,179, Ethnic organizations 2011 census Identified themselves: 255 069 people.