Eger
Eger is a historic town in Northern Hungary, capital of Heves County, situated between the Mátra and Bükk mountains. Eger district outside of the city is covered in a separate article.
- Type: City with 49,500 residents
- Description: city in Hungary
- Also known as: “Egri”, “HU-EG”, “Jager”, “Jagier”, “Jegar”, “Јегар”, and “Эрлау”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Eger Minaret and Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Apostle.
Eger Minaret
Scenic viewpoint
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eger district.
Eger
- Categories: town in Hungary, city with county rights, and locality
- Location: Heves County, Northern Hungary, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.899° or 47° 53′ 56″ north
Longitude
20.3744° or 20° 22′ 28″ east
Population
49,500
Elevation
168 metres (551 feet)
UN/LOCODE
HU EGR
Open location code
8GV2V9XF+HP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Eger” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيغر”
- Arabic: “ايغر”
- Aragonese: “Eger (Hongría)”
- Aragonese: “Eger”
- Armenian: “Էգեր”
- Azerbaijani: “Eqer”
- Balinese: “Eger”
- Bashkir: “Эгер”
- Basque: “Eger”
- Belarusian: “Эгер”
- Breton: “Eger”
- Bulgarian: “Егер”
- Catalan: “Eger”
- Cebuano: “Eger (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Eger”
- Chechen: “Эгер”
- Chinese: “埃格尔”
- Chinese: “埃格爾”
- Croatian: “Eger”
- Czech: “Eger”
- Danish: “Eger”
- Dutch: “Eger”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايجر”
- Erzya: “Эгер”
- Esperanto: “Eger”
- Esperanto: “Egero”
- Estonian: “Eger”
- Finnish: “Eger”
- French: “Eger”
- Galician: “Eger”
- Georgian: “ეგერი”
- German: “Eger”
- German: “Erlau”
- Greek: “Έγκερ”
- Hebrew: “אגר”
- Hindi: “एगेर”
- Hungarian: “Eger”
- Inari Sami: “Eger”
- Indonesian: “Eger”
- Irish: “Eger”
- Italian: “Eger”
- Japanese: “エゲル”
- Kazakh: “Егер”
- Kazakh: “Эгер”
- Korean: “에게르”
- Latin: “Agria”
- Latvian: “Egera”
- Lithuanian: “Egeris”
- Lombard: “Eger”
- Lower Sorbian: “Eger”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Eger”
- Macedonian: “Егер”
- Malay: “Eger”
- Maltese: “Eger”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Eger”
- Mingrelian: “ეგერი”
- Moksha: “Эгэр”
- Northern Frisian: “Eger”
- Northern Sami: “Eger”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eger”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eger”
- Norwegian: “Eger”
- Ossetian: “Эгер”
- Persian: “اگر”
- Polish: “Eger”
- Portuguese: “Eger”
- Quechua: “Eger”
- Romanian: “Eger”
- Russian: “Эгер”
- Rusyn: “Ягер”
- Scots: “Eger”
- Serbian: “Jegra”
- Serbian: “Егер”
- Serbian: “Јегра”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Eger”
- Silesian: “Eger”
- Skolt Sami: “Eger”
- Slovak: “Eger”
- Slovak: “Jáger”
- Slovenian: “Eger”
- Spanish: “Eger”
- Swahili: “Eger”
- Swedish: “Eger”
- Tatar: “Эгер”
- Turkish: “Eğri” (historical)
- Ukrainian: “Егер”
- Ukrainian: “Еґер”
- Urdu: “ایگر”
- Uzbek: “Eger”
- Venetian: “Egra”
- Veps: “Eger”
- Vietnamese: “Eger”
- Volapük: “Eger”
- Võro: “Eger”
- Waray (Philippines): “Eger”
- Welsh: “Eger”
- Western Panjabi: “ایگیر”
- Wu Chinese: “埃格尔”
- Yiddish: “ערלוי”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Belváros and Érsekkert.
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