Its territory, which was smaller than that of present-day Csongrád-Csanád County, is now part of Hungary, except a very small area which belongs to Serbia.

Prior to the reforms of the late-19th century it had shared borders with the Kiskunság/Jászkunság, Pest County, Heves County, the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar (1849-1860) and its predecessor the Banat of Temeswar (until 1786).

[citation needed] In the period following the revolutions of 1848 (1849–1860), Csongrád was part of the Military District of Pest-Ofen.

In 1920, the Treaty of Trianon assigned a small part of the territory of the county – a small area around Horgos (now Horgoš, Vojvodina) in northern Délvidék – to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929); the rest remained in Hungary.

[6] In 1854 Csongrád county comprised the following Bezirke (presented as they appear in the defining act):[1]