Hungarians in Slovakia

Hungarians in Slovakia are the largest ethnic minority of the country. According to the 2011 Slovak census, 458,467 people (or 8.5% of the population) declared themselves Hungarians, while 508,714 (9,4% of the population) stated that Hungarian was their mother tongue. In addition to this, there were 382,500 people in Slovakia (7% of the population) who refused to state their ethnicity. Hungarians in Slovakia are concentrated mostly in the southern part of the country, near the border with Hungary. Averaged on district level, they form the majority in two districts: Komárno and Dunajská Streda.