title: Pusztaottlaka
text: # Pusztaottlaka
  
  Pusztaottlaka (Puszta-Ott·lak·a; Romanian: Otlaca-Pustă) is a village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary.
  
  ## Geography
  
  It covers an area of 18.88 km² and has a population of 471 people (2002).
  
  ## Population
  
  According to the last census in 2015 Pusztaottlaka/Otlaca-Pusta had a population of 474 people. The majority of the population is Hungarian with a 17% Romanian minority (74 people who spoke Romanian as a mother language).
  
  ## Religion
  
  According to the last census in 2001 133 people belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, 40 were Lutherans and 140 people followed "another faith". In the case of Pusztaottlaka/Otlaca-Pusta the latters are mainly Orthodox Romanians.
  
  ## Name
  
  Pusztaottlaka means "dwelling place on the puszta" in Hungarian. The Romanian name is the transliteration of the Hungarian one.
  
  