Štitáre

Štitáre (Hungarian: Alsócsitár) is a village and municipality in the Nitra District in western central Slovakia, in the Nitra Region.^[4]

The municipality lies at an altitude of 244 metres (801 ft)^[3] and covers an area of 7.49 km² (2.89 sq mi) (2024).^[5] It lies 7 km north-east to the historic city of Nitra. It is surrounded by Zobor mountain range in the north and agricultural fields in the south.

It has a population of 1263 people (31 December 2024).^[7]

In year 2021 was 1028 people by ethnicity 853 as Slovak, 171 as Hungarian, 31 as Not found out, 12 as Czech, 6 as Russian, 6 as Other, 5 as Ukrainian, 1 as Rusyn, 1 as Romanian, 1 as Polish, 1 as Greek and 1 as French.

Note on population

The difference between the population numbers above and in the census (here and below) is that the population numbers above are mostly made up of permanent residents, etc.; and the census should indicate the place where people actually mainly live. For example, a student is a citizen of a village because he has permanent residence there (he lived there as a child and has parents), but most of the time he studies at a university in the city.

In year 2021 was 1028 people by religion 678 from Roman Catholic Church, 262 from None, 30 from Not found out, 20 from Evangelical Church, 10 from Ad hoc movements, 9 from Eastern Orthodox Church, 7 from Greek Catholic Church, 2 from Calvinist Church, 2 from Jehovah's Witnesses, 2 from Other, 1 from Paganism and natural spirituality, 1 from Other and not ascertained christian church, 1 from Christian Congregations in Slovakia, 1 from Islam, 1 from Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and 1 from Buddhism.