Pest
Pest is the part of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, that lies on the eastern bank of the Danube. Pest was administratively unified with Buda and Óbuda in 1873.
- Type: Suburb with 1,000,000 residents
- Description: eastern part of Budapest, Hungary, former independent city (–1873)
- Also known as: “Pest, Hungary”, “Pesth”, “Pestj”, “Pestum”, “ペスト”, and “模範村”
Photo: Hello world, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Városliget and Hungarian State Opera House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belváros and Víziváros.
Pest
- Categories: neighborhood, former settlement, former municipality, and locality
- Location: Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.4942° or 47° 29′ 39″ north
Longitude
19.053° or 19° 3′ 11″ east
Population
1,000,000
Elevation
113 metres (371 feet)
Established
1148
Open location code
8FVXF3V3+M5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Pest” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Pest, Hongarye”
- Afrikaans: “Pest”
- Arabic: “بست”
- Arabic: “بشت”
- Aragonese: “Pest”
- Armenian: “Պեշտ”
- Azerbaijani: “Peşt”
- Basque: “Pest (hiria)”
- Basque: “Pest”
- Belarusian: “Пешт”
- Belarusian: “Пэшт”
- Bengali: “পেস্ট”
- Bulgarian: “Пеща”
- Catalan: “Pest”
- Chechen: “Пешт”
- Chinese: “佩斯”
- Croatian: “Pešta”
- Czech: “Pešť”
- Danish: “Pest”
- Dutch: “Pest”
- Esperanto: “Peŝto”
- Estonian: “Pest”
- Finnish: “Pest”
- French: “Pest”
- Galician: “Pest”
- Georgian: “პეშტი”
- German: “Pest”
- Greek: “Πεστ”
- Gujarati: “પેસ્ટ”
- Hebrew: “פשט”
- Hindi: “पेस्ट”
- Hungarian: “Pest”
- Ido: “Pest (Budapest)”
- Ido: “Pest”
- Indonesian: “Pest”
- Irish: “Pest”
- Italian: “Pest”
- Japanese: “ペシュト”
- Kannada: “ಕೀಟ”
- Korean: “페슈트”
- Latin: “Pestinum”
- Latvian: “Pešta”
- Lithuanian: “Peštas”
- Luxembourgish: “Pescht”
- Macedonian: “Пешта”
- Malay: “Pest”
- Marathi: “पेस्ट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pest”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pest i Ungarn”
- Norwegian: “Pest”
- Ossetian: “Пешт”
- Persian: “پشت”
- Persian: “شهر پست”
- Polish: “Peszt”
- Portuguese: “Peste”
- Romanian: “Pesta”
- Russian: “Пешт”
- Rusyn: “Пешт”
- Serbian: “Pešta”
- Serbian: “Пешта”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pešta”
- Sinhala: “පෙස්ට්”
- Slovak: “Pešť”
- Slovenian: “Pešta”
- Spanish: “Pest”
- Swedish: “Pest, Ungern”
- Swedish: “Pest”
- Tamil: “பேஸ்ட்”
- Telugu: “పెస్ట్”
- Thai: “เปสต์”
- Turkish: “Peşte”
- Ukrainian: “Пешт”
- Urdu: “پست”
- Vietnamese: “Pest”
- Welsh: “Pla”
- “Pest”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Buda and Tabán.
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Highlights: Magma and Abigail Galéria.
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