It covers an area of 48.93 km2 (19 sq mi) and has a population of 1674 people (2002).

In a great hall the circular panorama painting by Árpád Feszty was rebuilt, and related exhibitions form an important national museum of Hungary.

There, old buildings and workshops, once widespread in the Great Hungarian Plain, can be visited.

For example, the old carriage factory consisted of the three workshops: the wheel-makers', the ladder-mount makers', and the master blacksmith's.

Ruins of an old Benedictine monastery of Romanesque style were also excavated in Pusztaszer.