Buda

Buda is the part of , the capital city of , that lies on the western bank of the . Historically, "Buda" referred only to the royal walled city on Castle Hill, which was constructed by Béla IV between 1247 and 1249 and subsequently served as the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1361 to 1873.
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  • Type: Locality with 510,000 residents
  • Description: western part of Budapest, Hungary, former independent city
  • Also known as: “Ofen”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Városliget and Hungarian State Opera House.

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is a large park in . This article describes the western part of the 14th district: and Istvánmező.

Theater building
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The is a historic opera house located in central , on . Originally known as the Hungarian Royal Opera House, it was designed by Miklós Ybl, a major figure of 19th-century Hungarian architecture.

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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belváros and Víziváros.

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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.

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is in . This article describes the outer part of the 1st district, which includes parts of Gellérthegy, Krisztinaváros, Tabán and .

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is, together with Buda and , one of the three cities that were unified to form the capital city of in 1873. Today, together with Békásmegyer, forms a part of the city's third district, although the toponym is also sometimes used for northern Buda as a whole.

Buda

Latitude
47.5° or 47° 30′ north
Longitude
19.0333° or 19° 2′ east
Population
510,000
Elevation
165 metres (541 feet)
Open location code
8FVXG22M+28
Geo­Names ID
3054667
Wiki­data ID
Q193478
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Buda” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Boeda”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Akouinkon”
  • Arabic: “بودا”
  • Arabic: “بودين”
  • Aragonese: “Buda”
  • Aragonese: “Pest”
  • Armenian: “Բուդա”
  • Asturian: “Buda”
  • Azerbaijani: “Buda”
  • Azerbaijani: “Budin”
  • Basque: “Buda”
  • Belarusian: “Буда”
  • Bosnian: “Budim”
  • Bulgarian: “Budim”
  • Bulgarian: “Буда”
  • Bulgarian: “Обуда”
  • Catalan: “Buda”
  • Chechen: “Буда”
  • Chinese: “布达”
  • Chinese: “布達”
  • Croatian: “Budim”
  • Czech: “Budín”
  • Danish: “Buda”
  • Dutch: “Boeda”
  • Dutch: “Ofen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بودا”
  • Esperanto: “Aquincum”
  • Esperanto: “Buda”
  • Esperanto: “Budao”
  • Esperanto: “Budim”
  • Esperanto: “Ofen”
  • Estonian: “Buda”
  • Finnish: “Buda”
  • French: “Buda”
  • Galician: “Buda”
  • Georgian: “ბუდა”
  • German: “Altofen”
  • German: “Aquincum”
  • German: “Buda”
  • German: “Budim”
  • German: “Ofen”
  • Greek: “Βούδα”
  • Hebrew: “אופן”
  • Hebrew: “בודה”
  • Hungarian: “Buda”
  • Ido: “Buda”
  • Indonesian: “Buda, Hungaria”
  • Irish: “Buda”
  • Italian: “Buda”
  • Japanese: “ブーダ”
  • Japanese: “ブダ”
  • Kazakh: “Bwda”
  • Kazakh: “Буда”
  • Kazakh: “بۋدا”
  • Korean: “부더”
  • Kurdish: “Buda, Budapeşt”
  • Kurdish: “Buda”
  • Kurdish: “بودا”
  • Latin: “Aquincum”
  • Latin: “Buda”
  • Latin: “Budae”
  • Lithuanian: “Buda (Vengrija)”
  • Lithuanian: “Buda”
  • Macedonian: “Budim”
  • Macedonian: “Буда”
  • Macedonian: “Будим”
  • Malay: “Buda”
  • Mongolian: “Буда”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buda”
  • Ossetian: “Будæ”
  • Ossetian: “Офен”
  • Persian: “بودا”
  • Polish: “Buda”
  • Portuguese: “Buda”
  • Romanian: “Buda”
  • Romanian: “Cetatea Buda”
  • Russian: “Буда”
  • Russian: “Офен”
  • Rusyn: “Будин”
  • Scots: “Buda”
  • Serbian: “Budim”
  • Serbian: “Будим”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Budim”
  • Slovak: “Budín”
  • Slovenian: “Buda”
  • Slovenian: “Budim”
  • Spanish: “Buda”
  • Swedish: “Buda”
  • Thai: “Buda”
  • Thai: “Ofen”
  • Thai: “บูดอ”
  • Thai: “บูดา”
  • Thai: “เมืองบูดา”
  • Turkish: “Budin”
  • Ukrainian: “Буда”
  • Uzbek: “Buda”
  • Vietnamese: “Buda”
  • Welsh: “Buda”
  • Western Armenian: “Պուտա”

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