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Pest

Pest is the part of , the capital city of , that lies on the eastern bank of the . Pest was administratively unified with and in 1873.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: eastern part of Budapest, Hungary, former independent city (–1873)
  • Also known as: “Pest, Hungary”, “Pesth”, and “Pestj”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Vigadó Concert Hall and Peterffy palace.

Arts center
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Vigadó is Budapest's second largest concert hall, located on the Eastern bank of the in , . Although the acoustics are lacking, the building itself, designed by Frigyes Feszl in 1859, makes a bold impression along the Pest embankment.

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The is a chain bridge that spans the between and Pest, the western and eastern sides of , the capital of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belváros and Tabán.

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or Downtown is the V. District of . It consists of two historic neighbourhoods with well-defined borders within the V. District - Lipótváros in the north includes the Parliament and many governmental buildings, Szent István Basilica and some museums, while the southern part is mostly high-class accommodations, shops and nightlife area.

Suburb
The usually refers to an area within the 1st district of , the capital of . It lies on the side of the , to the south of György Dózsa Square, on the northern side of Elisabeth Bridge and to the east of .

Suburb
Budapest's Palotanegyed forms an inner part of Pest, the eastern half of . Known until the communist period as the ‘Magnates’ Quarter’, it consists of the most westerly part of the city's Eighth District, or , which was named on 7 November 1777 after Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria, who reigned 1765-1790.

Pest

Latitude
47.49422° or 47° 29′ 39″ north
Longitude
19.05299° or 19° 3′ 11″ east
Elevation
113 metres (371 feet)
Inception
1148
Open location code
8FVXF3V3+M5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9006565215
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
3046446
Wiki­data ID
Q210205
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Satellite Map

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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”
  • Arabic: “پست”
  • 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”
  • Chinese: “模範村”
  • Croatian: “Pešta”
  • Czech: “Pešť”
  • Czech: “Pestum”
  • Danish: “Pest”
  • Dutch: “Pest”
  • Esperanto: “Pest”
  • Esperanto: “Peŝto”
  • Estonian: “Pest”
  • Finnish: “Pest”
  • French: “Pest”
  • Galician: “Pest”
  • Georgian: “პეშტი”
  • German: “Pest”
  • German: “Pesth”
  • 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 Bokmål: “Pešť”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pešta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pest i Ungarn”
  • Norwegian: “Pest”
  • Ossetian: “Пешт”
  • Persian: “پشت”
  • Persian: “شهر پست”
  • Polish: “Peszt”
  • Portuguese: “Peste”
  • Romanian: “Pest”
  • Romanian: “Pesta”
  • Russian: “Пешт”
  • Rusyn: “Пешт”
  • Serbian: “Pešta”
  • Serbian: “Пешта”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pešta”
  • Sinhala: “පෙස්ට්”
  • Slovak: “Pešť”
  • Slovenian: “Pešta”
  • Spanish: “Pest”
  • Spanish: “Pesth”
  • 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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