Hungary
Northern Great Plain
Hajdú-Bihar County

Debrecen

Debrecen is the "capital city of the Great Hungarian Plain", and the county seat and largest city of in eastern . It is the second largest city in the country with over 200,000 inhabitants, and historically the most important city in Hungarian Protestantism.
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  • Type: City with 202,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hungary
  • Also known as: “Hadházytelep”, “Hajdúszentgyörgy”, and “Józsa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Reformed Great Church and Fonix Arena.

Church
Photo: Pudelek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The or Great Reformed Church in Debrecen is located in the city of Debrecen, between Kossuth Square and Kálvin Square. An icon of Protestantism in Hungary, the church has earned the city the nickname "the Calvinist Rome".

Stadium
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Főnix Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Debrecen, . The arena holds 8,500 people and opened in 2002. It hosted the 2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

Stadium
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Stadion Oláh Gábor Út is a multi-use in Debrecen, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and was the home stadium of Debreceni VSC. The stadium is able to hold 10,200 people. It was replaced by Nagyerdei Stadion in 2014.

Debrecen

Latitude
47.5314° or 47° 31′ 53″ north
Longitude
21.626° or 21° 37′ 34″ east
Population
202,000
Elevation
124 metres (407 feet)
IATA airport code
DEB
United Nations Location Code
HU DEB
Open location code
8GV3GJJG+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26757724
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
721472
Wiki­data ID
Q79880
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Debrecen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Debrecen”
  • Arabic: “دبرتسن”
  • Aragonese: “Debrecen”
  • Armenian: “Դեբրեցեն”
  • Asturian: “Debrecen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Debretsen”
  • Balinese: “Debrecen”
  • Bashkir: “Дебрецен”
  • Basque: “Debrecen”
  • Belarusian: “Дэбрэцэн”
  • Bengali: “দেব্রেচেন”
  • Bosnian: “Debrecen”
  • Breton: “Debrecen”
  • Bulgarian: “Дебрецен”
  • Bulgarian: “СК Дебрецен”
  • Catalan: “Debrecen”
  • Cebuano: “Debrecen”
  • Chavacano: “Debrecen”
  • Chechen: “Дебрецен”
  • Chinese: “Debrecen”
  • Chinese: “德布勒森”
  • Corsican: “Debrecen”
  • Croatian: “Debrecen”
  • Croatian: “Debrecin”
  • Czech: “Debrecen”
  • Czech: “Debrecín”
  • Danish: “Debrecen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Debrecen”
  • Dutch: “Debrecen”
  • Eastern Mari: “Дебрецен”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديبريتسين”
  • Erzya: “Дебрецен ош”
  • Esperanto: “Debrecen”
  • Esperanto: “Debreceno”
  • Estonian: “Debrecen”
  • Faroese: “Debrecen”
  • Finnish: “Debrecen”
  • Finnish: “Debrezin”
  • French: “Debrecen”
  • French: “Debreczen”
  • French: “Debreczin”
  • Galician: “Debrecen”
  • Georgian: “დებრეცენი”
  • German: “Debrecen”
  • German: “Debreczen”
  • German: “Debreczin”
  • German: “Debrezin”
  • German: “Kleingebiet Debrecen”
  • Greek: “Ντέμπρετσεν”
  • Gujarati: “ડેબ્રેસેન”
  • Hebrew: “דברצין”
  • Hebrew: “דברצן”
  • Hindi: “डेब्रेसेन”
  • Hindi: “देब्रेत्सेन”
  • Hungarian: “Debrecen”
  • Icelandic: “Debrecen”
  • Ido: “Debrecen”
  • Inari Sami: “Debrecen”
  • Indonesian: “Debrecen”
  • Interlingue: “Debrecen”
  • Irish: “Debrecen”
  • Italian: “Debrecen”
  • Japanese: “デブレツェン”
  • Kannada: “ದೇಬ್ರೆಸೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Дебресен”
  • Kazakh: “Дебрецен”
  • Kirghiz: “Дебрецен”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Дебрецен”
  • Korean: “데브레첸”
  • Latin: “Debrecinum”
  • Latvian: “Debrecen”
  • Latvian: “Debrecena”
  • Limburgan: “Debrecen”
  • Lithuanian: “Debrecenas”
  • Livvi: “Debrecen”
  • Lombard: “Debrecen”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Debrecen”
  • Macedonian: “Дебрецин”
  • Malay: “Debrecen”
  • Maltese: “Devbrecen”
  • Marathi: “डेब्रेसेन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Debrecen”
  • Mingrelian: “დებრეცენი”
  • Moksha: “Дэбрэцэн”
  • Mongolian: “Дебрецен”
  • Northern Frisian: “Debrecen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Debrecen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Debrecín”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Debreczyn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Debreţin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Debrecen”
  • Norwegian: “Debrecen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Debrecen”
  • Ossetian: “Дебрецен”
  • Persian: “دبرتسن”
  • Persian: “دبرسن”
  • Piemontese: “Debrecen”
  • Polish: “Debrecen”
  • Polish: “Debreczyn”
  • Portuguese: “Debrecen”
  • Pushto: “دبرسن”
  • Quechua: “Debrecen”
  • Romanian: “Debrecen”
  • Romanian: “Debreţin”
  • Romanian: “Debrețin”
  • Russian: “Дебрецен”
  • Russian: “Дебречин”
  • Rusyn: “Дебрецен”
  • Sardinian: “Debrecen”
  • Scots: “Debrecen”
  • Serbian: “Debrecen”
  • Serbian: “Debrecin”
  • Serbian: “Дебрецен”
  • Serbian: “Дебрецин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Debrecen”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Debrecin”
  • Silesian: “Debrecen”
  • Sinhala: “ඩෙබ්‍රිසෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Debrecen”
  • Slovak: “Debrecín”
  • Slovenian: “Debrecen”
  • Spanish: “Debrecen”
  • Swahili: “Debrecen”
  • Swedish: “Debrecen”
  • Swedish: “Debreczen”
  • Swedish: “Debretsen”
  • Swedish: “Debrezen”
  • Swedish: “Kalvinisternas Rom”
  • Swiss German: “Debrecen”
  • Tamil: “டெப்ரெசென்”
  • Tatar: “Дебрецен”
  • Telugu: “డెబ్రెసెన్”
  • Thai: “แดแบร็ตแซ็น”
  • Tok Pisin: “Debrecen”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Debrecen”
  • Turkish: “Debrecen”
  • Ukrainian: “Дебрецен”
  • Ukrainian: “Дебречин”
  • Ukrainian: “Доброчин”
  • Urdu: “دیبریکین”
  • Urdu: “ڈیبراتدین”
  • Uzbek: “Debretsen”
  • Venetian: “Debrecen”
  • Veps: “Debrecen”
  • Vietnamese: “Debrecen”
  • Vlax Romani: “Debrecen”
  • Volapük: “Debrecen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Debrecen”
  • Welsh: “Debrecen”
  • Western Mari: “Дебрецен”
  • Western Panjabi: “دیبریسین”
  • Wu Chinese: “德布勒森”
  • Yiddish: “דעברעצין”
  • Yue Chinese: “德布勒森”
  • “Debrecen”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Debrecen”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.