Somogy County

administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary

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Somogy County is an administrative district in Hungary that has existed as a regional division both in the modern country and historically in the former Kingdom of Hungary. It serves as a local governing area within Hungary's administrative structure.

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Official name: Somogy vármegye
Population: 293470
Area: 6065.07
Official website: www.som-onkorm.hu
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native label: Somogy vármegye
Commons category: Somogy County
inception: 1950-02-01
P6482: Somogy County

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Somogy (Hungarian: Somogy vármegye, pronounced [ˈʃomoɟ]; Croatian: Šomođska županija; Slovene: Šomodska županija, German: Komitat Schomodei) is an administrative county (comitatus or vármegye) in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.

Somogy County lies in south-western Hungary, on the border with Croatia's Koprivnica-Križevci and Virovitica-Podravina counties. It stretches between the river Dráva and the southern shore of Lake Balaton. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties of Zala, Veszprém, Fejér, Tolna, and Baranya. Somogy is the most sparsely populated county in Hungary. The county capital is Kaposvár. Its area is 6,036 km.