Mátranovák is a village in Nógrád County, Hungary, the Bárna creek flows through the settlement.

The church of the village was built in the first years of the 19th century in the Baroque style, and its tower with a bell cornice on the facade has an onion dome.

In the first years of the 20th century, the population of the village doubled, in 1911 passenger transport started on the railway line, Mátranovák had their own station called Mátranovak-Homokterenye.

The elementary school originally consisted of two parts and the lower classes were taught at the mining site.

The Ganz-MÁVAG bridge factory was built in 1969, which later switched to the production of railway car chassis.

The religious distribution was as follows: 39.4% Roman Catholic, 2.2% Calvinist, 0.7% Lutheran, 15.1% non-denominational, and 40.5% did not wish to answer.