Szécsény (Hungarian: Szécsényi járás) is a district in northern part of Nógrád County.

The district is located in the Northern Hungary Statistical Region.

(ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)[1] The bolded municipality is the city.

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

1,000 persons in Szécsény District did declare more than one ethnic group at the 2011 census.