Szarvas (Slovak: Sarvaš, IPA: [sarvaʃ]; German: Sarwasch) is a town in Békés County, Hungary.

Szarvas is located in the Great Hungarian Plain upon the Körös River, 170 km (106 mi) southeast from Budapest.

[1] The geographic centre of Hungary was near Szarvas before the Treaty of Trianon; a memorial in a windmill shape now marks that location in a park on a bank of the Körös River across from the Arboretum.

[5] The Medieval town was ruined due to the Ottoman wars, native Hungarian population fled from the area.

[7] According to the 2011 census the total population of Szarvas was 16,954, of whom there were 14,325 (84.5%) Hungarians, 1,822 (10.8%) Slovaks, 489 (2.9%) Romani and 75 (0.4%) Germans by ethnicity.