title: Sarkad, Hungary
text: # Sarkad, Hungary
  
  Sarkad is a town in Békés County, Hungary.
  
  ## Location
  
  * on the right bank of Fekete-Körös river
  * 14 km north of Gyula
  
  ## Twin towns – sister cities
  
  Sarkad is twinned with:
  
  * Baraolt, Romania
  * Niestetal, Germany
  * Salonta, Romania
  * Snagov, Romania
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Sándor Képíró, gendarmerie captain
  * Loránd Kesztyűs, physician, immunologist, and pathophysiologist
  * Sándor Kónya, opera singer
  