Perín-Chym

Perín-Chym is a municipality (village) in eastern Slovakia near the town of Košice.

It arose in 1964 by a merger of the municipalities Perín (first written mention 1220; before 1927 called Perina) and Chym (first written mention 1294; also called Him in some periods in the past).^[4] The municipality Vyšný Lanec was merged with Perín-Chym in 1991.

The village Perín gave name to the Lords of Perín (Perényi), a noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary, whose oldest known member Urban was granted the domain of Perín in 1292.

Today the municipality is well-known thanks to ponds and fishery.

The municipality lies at an altitude of 214 metres (702 ft)^[3] and covers an area of 41.51 km² (16.03 sq mi) (2024).^[5]

It has a population of 1576 people (31 December 2024).^[7]

In year 2021 was 1532 people by ethnicity 1143 as Slovak, 405 as Hungarian, 79 as Not found out, 7 as Czech, 6 as Ukrainian, 3 as Rusyn, 3 as English, 1 as Jewish, 1 as Irish, 1 as Romani, 1 as German, 1 as Moravian, 1 as Other and 1 as Albanian.

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 1532 people by religion 1027 from Roman Catholic Church, 187 from None, 127 from Calvinist Church, 77 from Not found out, 69 from Greek Catholic Church, 15 from Evangelical Church, 14 from Jehovah's Witnesses, 5 from Eastern Orthodox Church, 4 from Ad hoc movements, 2 from Paganism and natural spirituality, 2 from Other, 1 from Other and not ascertained christian church, 1 from Christian Congregations in Slovakia and 1 from Baptists Church.