Buda
Buda is the part of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, that lies on the western bank of the Danube. 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.
- Type: Locality with 510,000 residents
- Description: western part of Budapest, Hungary, former independent city
- Also known as: “Budae”, “Cetatea Buda”, “Обуда”, “Офен”, “אובין”, “אובן”, “אופן”, “بودين”, “บูดา”, “เมืองบูดา”, and “ブーダ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Városliget and Hungarian State Opera House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belváros and Víziváros.
Buda
- Category: city
- Location: Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
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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
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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”
- Aragonese: “Buda”
- Aragonese: “Pest”
- Armenian: “Բուդա”
- Asturian: “Buda”
- Azerbaijani: “Buda”
- Azerbaijani: “Budin”
- Basque: “Buda”
- Belarusian: “Буда”
- Bosnian: “Budim”
- Bulgarian: “Budim”
- Bulgarian: “Буда”
- Catalan: “Buda”
- Chechen: “Буда”
- Chinese: “布达”
- Chinese: “布達”
- Croatian: “Budim”
- Czech: “Budín”
- Danish: “Buda”
- Dutch: “Boeda”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بودا”
- Esperanto: “Buda”
- Esperanto: “Budao”
- Estonian: “Buda”
- Finnish: “Buda”
- French: “Buda”
- Galician: “Buda”
- Georgian: “ბუდა”
- German: “Altofen”
- German: “Buda”
- German: “Ofen”
- Greek: “Βούδα”
- Hebrew: “בודה”
- Hungarian: “Buda”
- Ido: “Buda”
- Indonesian: “Buda, Hungaria”
- Irish: “Buda”
- Italian: “Buda”
- Japanese: “ブダ”
- Kazakh: “Bwda”
- Kazakh: “Буда”
- Kazakh: “بۋدا”
- Korean: “부더”
- Kurdish: “Buda, Budapeşt”
- Kurdish: “Buda”
- Kurdish: “بودا”
- Latin: “Aquincum”
- Latin: “Buda”
- Lithuanian: “Buda (Vengrija)”
- Lithuanian: “Buda”
- Macedonian: “Budim”
- Macedonian: “Будим”
- Malay: “Buda”
- Mongolian: “Буда”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buda”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buda”
- Ossetian: “Будæ”
- Persian: “بودا”
- Polish: “Buda”
- Portuguese: “Buda”
- Romanian: “Buda”
- Russian: “Буда”
- Rusyn: “Будин”
- Scots: “Buda”
- Serbian: “Budim”
- Serbian: “Будим”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Budim”
- Slovak: “Budín”
- Slovenian: “Budim”
- Spanish: “Buda”
- Swedish: “Buda”
- Thai: “บูดอ”
- Turkish: “Budin”
- Ukrainian: “Буда”
- Uzbek: “Buda”
- Vietnamese: “Buda”
- Welsh: “Buda”
- Western Armenian: “Պուտա”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Várkerület and Budavár.
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Highlights: Matthias Church and Fisherman’s Bastion.
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