Kunhegyes (Hungarian: Kunhegyesi járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County.

The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region.

This district is a part of Nagykunság historical and geographical region.

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minority is the Roma (approx.

2,000 persons in Kunhegyes District did declare more than one ethnic group at the 2011 census.