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Budapest

Budapest is the capital city of . With a unique, youthful atmosphere, world-class classical music scene, a pulsating nightlife increasingly appreciated among European youth, and last but not least, an exceptional offer of natural thermal baths, Budapest is one of Europe's most delightful and enjoyable cities.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Belváros and Víziváros.

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or Downtown is the V. District of Budapest. 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 Budapest. 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 and , one of the three cities that were unified to form the capital city of Budapest 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.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as East Pest and Angyalföld.

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is in Budapest. This article describes Districts XVI and XVII.

in the 13th district in Budapest. In the early 20th century, this area was a slum. Until the 1950s it was a part of the 7th District. Then housing estates with mostly 11-floor buildings were built.

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, Vár or Várnegyed is in Budapest, located on Castle Hill. It is the highlight of the 1st district. You can walk around the old romantic streets of the hill or see a great view of Pest from there.

is in Budapest. A big area on southern Buda, on the right side of Danube.

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is the former Roman city which stood in Budapest. This article describes the northern part of District III.

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is the traditional name of the VIII. district, literally meaning "Josephtown" and referring to Emperor Joseph II of Austria and Hungary. This area is popular, with scores of students and several cafés and pizzerias.

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is the traditional name of the IX. district. The postal code is H-109X. Here is the north end of the longest street in Budapest, the Üllői Street is about fifteen kilometer long. Its old name was 'Road to ' and it connects five districts.

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is the official name of the 10th district of Budapest. In the north-west corner is a large public park called Népliget.

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

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is the official name of the 14th district of Budapest. It is a large and mixed neighborhood, with communist era style highrise apartments sprinkled between decently kept one house residential streets.

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is a green, hilly suburban area of Budapest. It is the most exclusive area, with villas, embassies and foreign residences. Because a significant part of the district is covered by forest, the area is very popular for local hikers.

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The 2nd district of Budapest is a district of Budapest, . It has an area of 36.34 km2 and is situated to the south of the and to the north of the and the .

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is the official name of the 21st district of Budapest. It is located at the northern end of Island in the Danube. Being on an island, it is the only complete district of Budapest which is neither in Pest nor in Buda.

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is the traditional name of the VI. district of Budapest. "Teréz" refers to Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Hungary.

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is the traditional name of the VII. district of Budapest. The name refers to Empress Elizabeth of Austria and Hungary, popularly known as Sissi. This is the smallest of Budapest's 23 districts, covering only 2 km².

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is in Budapest. It is formed by two districts. One of them is Újpest, the 4th District in Budapest. The name Újpest means "new Pest" because the city was formed on the border of the city of Pest in 1838.

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is in Budapest. This article describes Districts XVIII, XIX, XX and XXIII.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Hungarian State Opera House and Széchenyi Chain Bridge.

Theater building
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The is a historic opera house located in central Budapest, 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 and Pest, the western and eastern sides of Budapest, the capital of .

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Japanese gardens have long been one of primary art forms often incorporating ideas of Japanese philosophy and religion. There are many types of Japanese gardens ranging from strolling gardens for the emperor to religious retreats for monks.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vizafogó and Pest.

Suburb
is a neighborhood in the of Budapest. It lies between the and Váci út, north of Újlipótváros, extending to Dráva Street in the south and Meder Street in the north.

Suburb
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is the part of Budapest, the capital city of , that lies on the eastern bank of the . was administratively unified with and in 1873.

Suburb
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is a 2.5 km long island, 500 m wide, in the middle of the in central Budapest, . The island is mostly covered by landscape parks, and is a popular recreational area.

Budapest

Latitude
47.507° or 47° 30′ 25″ north
Longitude
19.0456° or 19° 2′ 44″ east
Population
1,690,000
Elevation
104 metres (341 feet)
IATA airport code
BUD
United Nations Location Code
HU BUD
Open location code
8FVXG24W+R6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 85788293
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3054643
Wiki­data ID
Q1781
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Budapest” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Budapèst”
  • Adyghe: “Будапешт”
  • Afrikaans: “Boedapest”
  • Albanian: “Budapest”
  • Albanian: “Budapesti”
  • Amharic: “ቡዳፔስት”
  • Arabic: “بودابست”
  • Aragonese: “Budapest”
  • Armenian: “Բուդապեշտ”
  • Arpitan: “Budapèst”
  • Asturian: “Budapest”
  • Avaric: “Будапешт”
  • Aymara: “Budapest”
  • Azerbaijani: “Budapeşt”
  • Balinese: “Budapest”
  • Bashkir: “Будапешт”
  • Basque: “Budapest”
  • Bavarian: “Budapest”
  • Belarusian: “Будапешт”
  • Belarusian: “Будапэшт”
  • Bengali: “বুদাপেশ্‌ৎ”
  • Bengali: “বুদাপেস্ট”
  • Betawi: “Budapès”
  • Bosnian: “Budapest”
  • Bosnian: “Budim”
  • Bosnian: “Budimpešta”
  • Bosnian: “Pešta”
  • Breton: “Budapest”
  • Bulgarian: “Будапеща”
  • Burmese: “ဗူးဒပက်မြို့”
  • Burmese: “ဘူဒါပတ်စ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Budapest”
  • Catalan: “Ofen”
  • Cebuano: “Budapest (ulohang dakbayan sa Unggriya)”
  • Cebuano: “Budapest”
  • Central Bikol: “Budapest”
  • Central Kurdish: “بوداپێست”
  • Chavacano: “Budapest”
  • Chechen: “Будапешт”
  • Chinese: “Budapest”
  • Chinese: “布达佩斯”
  • Chinese: “布達佩斯”
  • Church Slavic: “Боудапєщь”
  • Chuvash: “Будапешт”
  • Cornish: “Budapest”
  • Corsican: “Budapest”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Budapeşt”
  • Croatian: “Budapest”
  • Croatian: “Budim”
  • Croatian: “Budimpešta”
  • Croatian: “Pešta”
  • Czech: “Budapest”
  • Czech: “Budapešť”
  • Dagbani: “Budapest”
  • Danish: “Alt-Ofen”
  • Danish: “Buda Pest”
  • Danish: “Buda-Pest”
  • Danish: “Buda”
  • Danish: “Budapest”
  • Danish: “Budapešť”
  • Danish: “Budapesta”
  • Danish: “Budapeszt”
  • Danish: “Budim”
  • Danish: “Budín”
  • Danish: “Budon”
  • Danish: “Ofen”
  • Danish: “Pest”
  • Danish: “Pešť”
  • Danish: “Pešta”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Budapeşt”
  • Dutch: “Boedapest”
  • Dutch: “Budapest”
  • Dutch: “Ofenpest”
  • Eastern Mari: “Будапешт”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بودابيست”
  • Erzya: “Будапешт ош”
  • Esperanto: “Budapeŝto”
  • Estonian: “Budapest”
  • Ewe: “Budapest”
  • Extremaduran: “Budapest”
  • Faroese: “Budapest”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Budapest”
  • Finnish: “Buda Pest”
  • Finnish: “Buda-Pest”
  • Finnish: “Budapest”
  • French: “Budapest”
  • Fulah: “Budapest”
  • Gagauz: “Budapeşt”
  • Galician: “Budapest”
  • Georgian: “ბუდაპეშტი”
  • German: “Alt-Ofen”
  • German: “Budapest”
  • German: “Ofen”
  • German: “Ofen-Pest” (historical)
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Budapest”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌿𐌳𐌰𐍀𐌴𐍃𐍄”
  • Greek: “Βουδαπέστη”
  • Guarani: “Budapest”
  • Gujarati: “બુડાપેસ્ટ”
  • Haitian: “Boudapès”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Budapest”
  • Hausa: “Budapest”
  • Hebrew: “בודפשט”
  • Hindi: “बुडापेस्ट”
  • Hungarian: “Bp.”
  • Hungarian: “Bpest”
  • Hungarian: “Buda”
  • Hungarian: “Budapest”
  • Hungarian: “Pest”
  • Icelandic: “Búdapest”
  • Ido: “Budapest”
  • Inari Sami: “Budapest”
  • Indonesian: “Budapes”
  • Indonesian: “Budapest”
  • Interlingua: “Budapest”
  • Interlingue: “Budapest”
  • Irish: “Búdaipeist”
  • Italian: “Budapest”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Budapest”
  • Japanese: “ブダペシュト”
  • Japanese: “ブダペスト”
  • Javanese: “Budapest”
  • Kabiyè: “Pudapɛsɩtɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Budapest”
  • Kalaallisut: “Budapest”
  • Kannada: “ಬುಡಾಪೆಸ್ಟ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Budapesht”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Будапешт”
  • Kashubian: “Bùdapeszt”
  • Kazakh: “Будапешт”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Budapest”
  • Kirghiz: “Будапешт”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Будапешт”
  • Komi: “Будапешт”
  • Korean: “부다페스트”
  • Kotava: “Budapest”
  • Kurdish: “Budapeşt”
  • Ladino: “Budapesht”
  • Ladino: “Budapest”
  • Lak: “Будапешт”
  • Latgalian: “Budapešta”
  • Latin: “Budapestinum”
  • Latvian: “Budapešta”
  • Ligurian: “Budapest”
  • Limburgan: “Boedapes”
  • Limburgan: “Budapes”
  • Lingala: “Budapest”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Budapest”
  • Literary Chinese: “布達佩斯”
  • Lithuanian: “Budapeštas”
  • Livvi: “Budapeštu”
  • Lombard: “Budapest”
  • Low German: “Boedapest”
  • Low German: “Budapest”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Budapest”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Budapešt”
  • Luxembourgish: “Budapest”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Budapesta”
  • Macedonian: “Будимпешта”
  • Malagasy: “Budapest”
  • Malay: “Budapest”
  • Malayalam: “ബുഡാപെസ്റ്റ്”
  • Maltese: “Budapest”
  • Manx: “Budapest”
  • Maori: “Budapest”
  • Marathi: “बुडापेस्ट”
  • Mazanderani: “بوداپست”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Budapest”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Boedapest”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Budapest”
  • Minangkabau: “Budapest”
  • Mingrelian: “ბუდაპეშტი”
  • Moksha: “Будапешт”
  • Mongolian: “Будапешт”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوداپيست”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوداپيسط”
  • Nauru: “Budapest”
  • Navajo: “Naaki Bineʼ Naʼadziʼii”
  • Nepali: “बुडापेस्ट”
  • Newari: “बुदापेस्त”
  • Northern Frisian: “Budapest”
  • Northern Luri: “بوداپست”
  • Northern Sami: “Budapest”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Budapest”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Budapest”
  • Norwegian: “Budapest”
  • Novial: “Budapesht”
  • Novial: “Budapest”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Budapèst”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Budapest”
  • Oriya: “ବୁଦାପେଷ୍ଟ”
  • Ossetian: “Будапешт”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “بوده پشته”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੁਦਾਪੈਸਤ”
  • Papiamento: “Budapest”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Budapescht”
  • Persian: “بوداپست”
  • Picard: “Budapest”
  • Piemontese: “Bùdapest”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Budapest”
  • Polish: “Budapeszt”
  • Portuguese: “Budapeste”
  • Pushto: “بوداپست”
  • Pushto: “بوډاپسټ”
  • Quechua: “Budapest”
  • Romanian: “Budapesta”
  • Romansh: “Budapest”
  • Russia Buriat: “Будапешт”
  • Russian: “Будапешт”
  • Rusyn: “Будапешт”
  • Rusyn: “Будапешть”
  • Samoan: “Budapest”
  • Samogitian: “Budapešts”
  • Sanskrit: “बुद्धप्रस्थ”
  • Sardinian: “Budapest”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Budapest”
  • Scots: “Budapest”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Budapest”
  • Serbian: “Budimpešta”
  • Serbian: “Будимпешта”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Budimpešta”
  • Shona: “Bhudhapesti”
  • Shona: “Budapest”
  • Sicilian: “Budapest”
  • Silesian: “Budapeszt”
  • Sindhi: “بوڊاپيسٽ”
  • Sinhala: “බුඩාපෙස්ට්”
  • Slovak: “Budapešť”
  • Slovenian: “Budapest”
  • Slovenian: “Budapešť”
  • Slovenian: “Budimpešta”
  • Slovenian: “Budín”
  • Slovenian: “Pešť”
  • Somali: “Budapest”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوداپست”
  • Southern Sotho: “Budapest”
  • Spanish: “Budapest”
  • Swahili: “Budapest”
  • Swedish: “Buda Pest”
  • Swedish: “Buda-Pest”
  • Swedish: “Budapest”
  • Swiss German: “Budapest”
  • Tagalog: “Budapest”
  • Tajik: “Будапешт”
  • Talysh: “Budapešt”
  • Tamil: “புடாபெசுட்டு”
  • Tamil: “புடாபெஸ்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Будапешт”
  • Telugu: “బుడాపెస్ట్”
  • Thai: “บูดอ-แป็ชต์”
  • Thai: “บูดอแป็ชต์”
  • Thai: “บูดาเปสต์”
  • Tibetan: “བུ་ད་ཕེ་སིད།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Budapest”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Budapest”
  • Turkish: “Budapeşte”
  • Turkmen: “Budapeşt”
  • Twi: “Budapest”
  • Twi: “Budapεst”
  • Udmurt: “Будапешт”
  • Uighur: “Budapésht”
  • Ukrainian: “Будапешт”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Budapest”
  • Urdu: “بوداپست”
  • Uzbek: “Budapesht”
  • Venetian: “Budapest”
  • Veps: “Budapešt”
  • Vietnamese: “Budapest”
  • Vlaams: “Boedapest”
  • Vlax Romani: “Peshta”
  • Volapük: “Budapest”
  • Võro: “Budapest”
  • Walloon: “Budapesse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Budapest”
  • Welsh: “Budapest”
  • Western Armenian: “Պուտափեշթ”
  • Western Armenian: “Պուտափեշտ”
  • Western Frisian: “Boedapest”
  • Western Frisian: “Bûdapest”
  • Western Mari: “Будапешт”
  • Western Panjabi: “بوداپست”
  • Wolof: “Budapest”
  • Wu Chinese: “布达佩斯”
  • Yakut: “Будапешт”
  • Yiddish: “בודאפעשט”
  • Yiddish: “בודאַפּעשט”
  • Yoruba: “Budapest”
  • Yue Chinese: “布達佩斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Boedapest”
  • Zulu: “i-Budapest”
  • “Budapest”
  • “Budapesta”
  • “Budapešts”
  • “ma tomo Putape”
  • “ma tomo Putapesi”

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