The Nyirseg

This landscape, Hungary's second largest area of drifting sand, is also of ethnographic interest. Baktalórántháza is its natural centre.

The Nyírség territories (the name refers to 'nyír', that is birch trees) rise and average 20 to 50 metres above the flatlands beyond the River Tisza. Towards the north the neighbouring landscapes are the Bodrogköz and the Rétköz, towards the east the plains of Szatmár and Bereg.

The highest point of this somewhat elliptic sandy area stretched north to south is the sand bank between Nyíradony, Nyírlugos and Nyírbogát. East of the village of Szalmad 183 metres above sea level is reached; this is the highest point of the entire Great Plain. The southern parts are linked with the Bihar Plain; the northern territories resemble the Bereg landscape.

Here, too, honey locusts secure the drifting sand and vineyards and fruit orchards have been planted on the slopes.