Vas (Hungarian: Vas megye, German: Komitat Eisenburg; Slovene: Železna županija or županija Železna, Croatian: Željezna županija) is situated in western Hungary. It shares borders with Austria (Burgenland) and Slovenia (Mura Statistical Region) and the Hungarian counties Győr-Moson-Sopron, Veszprém and Zala. Vas county covers an area of 3.336 km² and has a population of 253.997 (2015), its capital is Szombathely.
Vas county is home to a small Slovene minority that lives in the area between the town of Szentgotthárd and the Slovenian border.
(Source: Wikipedia)