Nyíregyháza is located in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County in the northern Plain region.
The first written mentions of Nyíregyháza date back to 1209, although it was then called simply Nyír (‘birch’), after the Nyírség, the greater region in which the city lies.
Nyíregyháza is a city in northeastern Hungary and the county capital of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg.
Nyíregyháza is the seventh-largest city in Hungary and is the leading city of Northern Hungary and of the northern part of the Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld).
The Estimated Population of Nyíregyháza is 117,874.
Nyíregyháza is twinned with Baia Mare, Romania; Bielsko-Biała, Poland; Harbin, China; Iserlohn, Germany; Kajaani, Finland; Kiryat Motzkin, Israel; Prešov, Slovakia; Rzeszów, Poland; Satu Mare, Romania; St Albans, England, United Kingdom & Uzhhorod, Ukraine.
Nyíregyháza is the birthplace of Israeli artist Zeev Kun who was born here in 1930.
A monument in the memory of the holocaust victims was constructed in 2004.
Nyíregyháza is 116 m above sea level.
The Georgaphic Coordinates of Nyíregyháza: 47.95306°N 21.72713°E.
