Edelény (Hungarian: Edelényi járás) is a district in northern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County.

The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region.

(ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012)[1] The bolded municipalities are cities.

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx.

3,000 persons in Edelény District did declare more than one ethnic group at the 2011 census.