Hungary
Hungary is a small landlocked country in south-eastern Central Europe. It features a gorgeous capital city, Budapest, and the largest lake in Central Europe, Balaton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Budapest and Sopron.
Budapest
Sopron
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Sopron is a city in Hungary, close to the Austrian border, with a population of about 62,000. The town is officially bilingual, and its historical German language name is Ödenburg.
Győr
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Central Hungary and Western Transdanubia.
Central Hungary
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Central Hungary consists of only one county, Pest County. Budapest, the capital of the country, is the administrative center of the county, but constitutes a separate territorial unit.
Western Transdanubia
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Western Transdanubia is a subdivision of Hungary as defined by the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics. It is one of the eight classified NUTS-2 statistical regions of Hungary.
Northern Hungary
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Northern Hungary is a region of Hungary. It includes the counties Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Heves and Nógrád.
Northern Great Plain
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The Northern Great Plain is a statistical region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, with a total area of 17,749 km2 and a population of around 1.5 million.
Central Transdanubia
Southern Great Plain
Lake Balaton
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Balaton is the biggest lake by surface area in Central Europe and gives its name to this entire Hungarian Lake Balaton region.
Southern Transdanubia
Hungary
- Type: Country with 9,730,000 residents
- Description: country in Central Europe
- Also known as: “Madjarska”, “Magyarország”, and “Wegry”
- Historically known as: “Republic of Hungary”
- Language: Hungarian
- Neighbors: Austria, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine
- Categories: sovereign state, landlocked country, successor state, and locality
- Location: Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
47.264° or 47° 15′ 50″ northLongitude of center
19.753° or 19° 45′ 11″ eastPopulation
9,730,000Area
93,030 km² (35,919 miles²)Elevation
87 metres (285 feet)Capital
BudapestCurrency
Forint (HUF)Phone code
.huInternet domain
36OpenStreetMap ID
node 249399347OpenStreetMap feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
719819Wikidata ID
Q28
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Hungary” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Венгриа”
- Abkhazian: “Мадиартәыла”
- Achinese: “Hongaria”
- Adyghe: “Хунгарие”
- Afrikaans: “Hongarye”
- Akan: “Hangari”
- Albanian: “Hungari”
- Albanian: “Hungaria”
- Amharic: “ሀንጋሪ”
- Amis: “Hungary”
- Angika: “हंगरी”
- Arabic: “المجر”
- Arabic: “مجر”
- Arabic: “هنجاريا”
- Arabic: “هنغاريا”
- Aragonese: “Hongría”
- Armenian: “Հունգարիա”
- Arpitan: “Hongrie”
- Arpitan: “Hongries”
- Assamese: “হাংগেৰী”
- Asturian: “Hungría”
- Atayal: “Hungary”
- Avaric: “Венгрия”
- Avaric: “Мажар”
- Awadhi: “हंगरी”
- Aymara: “Hunkariya”
- Azerbaijani: “Macaristan”
- Azerbaijani: “Macarıstan”
- Bambara: “Hɔngri”
- Bashkir: “Венгрия”
- Bashkir: “Мажарстан”
- Basque: “Hungaria”
- Batak Toba: “Hungaria”
- Bavarian: “Ungarn”
- Belarusian: “Венгрыя”
- Belarusian: “Вугоршчына”
- Belarusian: “Вэнгрыя”
- Bengali: “হাঙ্গেরি”
- Bengali: “হাঙ্গেরী”
- Betawi: “Honggari”
- Bhojpuri: “हंगरी”
- Bhojpuri: “हन्गरी”
- Bishnupriya: “হাঙ্গেরী”
- Bislama: “Hangari”
- Bislama: “Hungary”
- Bosnian: “Mađarska”
- Breton: “Hungaria”
- Bulgarian: “Република Унгария”
- Bulgarian: “Унгария”
- Burmese: “Hungary”
- Burmese: “ဟန်ဂေရီ”
- Burmese: “ဟန်ဂေရီနိုင်ငံ”
- Catalan: “Hongria”
- Catalan: “Hungria”
- Cebuano: “Hungary”
- Cebuano: “Unggriya”
- Central Bikol: “Hungriya”
- Central Kanuri: “Hungary”
- Central Kurdish: “مەجارستان”
- Central Kurdish: “ھەنگاریا”
- Chamorro: “Hunggria”
- Chavacano: “Hungría”
- Chechen: “Венгри”
- Chechen: “Мажаройчоь”
- Cherokee: “ᎲᏂᎦᎵ”
- Chinese: “Hông-gâ-lī”
- Chinese: “Xiōngyálì”
- Chinese: “匈牙利”
- Chinese: “匈牙利共和国”
- Chinese: “匈牙利共和國”
- Church Slavic: “Ѫгри”
- Chuvash: “Венгри”
- Chuvash: “Хункăри”
- Cornish: “Hungari”
- Corsican: “Ungheria”
- Crimean Tatar: “Macaristan”
- Croatian: “Mađarska”
- Croatian: “Madžarska”
- Czech: “Maďarsko”
- Dagbani: “Hungary”
- Danish: “Ungarn”
- Dhivehi: “ހަންގޭރީ”
- Dimli (individual language): “Macarıstan”
- Dotyali: “हंगेरी”
- Dutch: “Hongarije”
- Dzongkha: “ཧང་གྷ་རི།”
- Dzongkha: “ཧཱང་གྷ་རི”
- Eastern Mari: “Венгрий”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المجر”
- Erzya: “Мадьяронь Мастор”
- Esperanto: “Hungario”
- Esperanto: “Hungarujo”
- Estonian: “Ungari”
- Ewe: “Hungari nutome”
- Ewe: “Hungary”
- Extremaduran: “Ungria”
- Faroese: “Ungarn”
- Fiji Hindi: “Hungary”
- Finnish: “Unkari”
- French: “Hongrie”
- French: “la Hongrie”
- Friulian: “Ongjarie”
- Fulah: “Hunngariya”
- Fulah: “Onngiri”
- Gagauz: “Ungariya”
- Gagauz: “Vengriya”
- Galician: “Hungría”
- Ganda: “Hangare”
- Ganda: “Hungary”
- Georgian: “უნგრეთი”
- German: “Ungarn”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hungary”
- Goan Konkani: “हंगेरी”
- Gothic: “𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
- Greek: “Ουγγαρία”
- Guarani: “Hungyria”
- Guianese Creole French: “Ongri”
- Gujarati: “હંગેરી”
- Haitian: “Ongri”
- Hakka Chinese: “Hiûng-ngà-li”
- Hausa: “Hungari”
- Hausa: “Hungariya”
- Hawaiian: “Hunakalia”
- Hebrew: “הונגריה”
- Hindi: “हंगरी”
- Hungarian: “A Magyar Köztársaság”
- Hungarian: “A Magyar Népköztársaság”
- Hungarian: “harmadik magyar köztársaság”
- Hungarian: “hu”
- Hungarian: “Magyar Köztársaság”
- Hungarian: “Magyar Népköztársaság”
- Hungarian: “Magyarország”
- Hungarian: “Mo.”
- Iban: “Hungari”
- Icelandic: “Ungverjaland”
- Ido: “Hungaria”
- Igbo: “Hungary”
- Iloko: “Hungaria”
- Inari Sami: “Unkari”
- Inari Sami: “Uŋgar”
- Indonesian: “Hongaria”
- Indonesian: “Hungaria”
- Ingush: “Маджарче”
- Interlingua: “Hungaria”
- Interlingue: “Hungaria”
- Inupiaq: “Makiaruusaaq”
- Irish: “an Ungáir”
- Irish: “An Ungáir”
- Italian: “Ungheria”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Onggari”
- Japanese: “ハンガリー”
- Japanese: “ハンガリー共和国”
- Javanese: “Hongaria”
- Javanese: “Honggari”
- Kabardian: “Мэжарей”
- Kabiyè: “Hɔŋirii”
- Kabuverdianu: “Ungria”
- Kabyle: “Hungarya”
- Kabyle: “Maǧar”
- Kabyle: “Majar”
- Kalaallisut: “Ungarni”
- Kalmyk: “Хунһармудин Орн”
- Kannada: “ಹಂಗರಿ”
- Kannada: “ಹಂಗೇರಿ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Vengriya”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Маджар”
- Kashmiri: “ہَنگری”
- Kashmiri: “ہَنٛگری”
- Kashubian: “Madżarskô”
- Kazakh: “Венгрия”
- Kazakh: “Мажарстан”
- Khmer: “ប្រទេសហុងគ្រី”
- Khmer: “ហុងគ្រី”
- Kikuyu: “Hangarĩ”
- Kikuyu: “Hungaria”
- Kikuyu: “Macartsa”
- Kinaray-A: “Onggriya”
- Kinaray-A: “Unggriya”
- Kinyarwanda: “Hongiriya”
- Kirghiz: “Венгрия”
- Kirghiz: “Мажарстан”
- Komi-Permyak: “Мадьярму”
- Komi: “Маддяр Му”
- Komi: “Мадьяр Му”
- Kongo: “Hongrie”
- Korean: “마쟈르”
- Korean: “헝가리”
- Kotava: “Magyara”
- Kurdish: “Hûngarya”
- Kurdish: “Macaristan”
- Kurdish: “Mecaristan”
- Ladin: “Ungaria”
- Ladino: “Madjaristan”
- Lao: “ປະເທດຮົງກະລີ”
- Lao: “ປະເທດຮົງກາລີ”
- Lao: “ຮັງກາຣີ”
- Latgalian: “Vengreja”
- Latin: “Hungaria”
- Latvian: “Ungārija”
- Lezghian: “Венгрия”
- Ligurian: “Ungaïa”
- Ligurian: “Ungaja”
- Ligurian: “Ungherîa”
- Ligurian: “Ungherîa”
- Limburgan: “Hongarieë”
- Lingala: “Ongili”
- Lingala: “Ungri”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Magiar”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Ungaria”
- Literary Chinese: “匈牙利”
- Lithuanian: “Vengrija”
- Liv: “Ungārmō”
- Livvi: “Vengrii”
- Lojban: “madjiar”
- Lombard: “Üngheria”
- Low German: “Hongaarn”
- Low German: “Hongaarnlaand”
- Low German: “Hongari-je”
- Low German: “Hongarije”
- Low German: “Ungarn”
- Lower Sorbian: “Hungorska”
- Luba-Katanga: “Ongili”
- Luxembourgish: “Ungarn”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Ungaria”
- Macedonian: “Унгарија”
- Madurese: “Hongaria”
- Malagasy: “Hongaria”
- Malagasy: “Hongria”
- Malagasy: “Hôngria”
- Malay: “Hungari”
- Malay: “Hungary”
- Malayalam: “ഹംഗറി”
- Malayalam: “റിപ്പബ്ലിക്ക് ഓഫ് ഹംഗറി”
- Maltese: “l-Ungerija”
- Maltese: “Ungerija”
- Manipuri: “ꯍꯪꯒꯦꯔꯤ”
- Manx: “hu”
- Manx: “HUN”
- Manx: “yn Ungaar”
- Manx: “Yn Ungaar”
- Maori: “Hanekeria”
- Marathi: “हंगेरी”
- Mazanderani: “مجارستون”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hṳ̆ng-ngà-lé”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hiong-gâ-lī”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hông-gâ-lī”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hungary”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Magyar-kok”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Magyar”
- Minangkabau: “Hungaria”
- Mingrelian: “უნგრეთი”
- Mirandese: “Hungrie”
- Moksha: “Венгеронь мастор”
- Moksha: “Мадьярмастор”
- Moksha: “Мадьяронь мастор”
- Moksha: “Мадярмастор”
- Mongolian: “Унгар”
- Moroccan Arabic: “هنڭاريا”
- Moroccan Arabic: “هنݣاريا”
- Mossi: “Hungary”
- Narom: “Hongrie”
- Nauru: “Ungari”
- Navajo: “Azeedíchʼííʼ Dineʼé Bikéyah”
- Navajo: “Hángewii”
- Neapolitan: “Ungaria”
- Nepali: “हंगेरी”
- Nepali: “हङ्गेरी”
- Newari: “हंगेरी”
- Newari: “हङ्गेरी”
- North Ndebele: “Hungary”
- Northern Frisian: “Ungarn/fe”
- Northern Frisian: “Ungarn”
- Northern Luri: “مأجارئستان”
- Northern Sami: “Ungar”
- Northern Sami: “Ungár”
- Northern Sami: “Ungára”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ungarn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ungarn”
- Norwegian: “Ungarn”
- Novial: “Hungaria”
- Obolo: “Ọngari”
- Obolo: “Ọn̄gari”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ongria”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܓܪ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ungerland”
- Oriya: “ହଙ୍ଗେରୀ”
- Oromo: “Hangaarii”
- Ossetian: “Венгри”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဟန်ဂေရီခမ်းထီ”
- Pali: “हंगरी”
- Pampanga: “Hungriya”
- Pampanga: “Hungrya”
- Pampanga: “Unggría”
- Pampanga: “Ungriya”
- Pangasinan: “Hungary”
- Panjabi: “ਹੰਗਰੀ”
- Papiamento: “Hongaria”
- Papiamento: “Hungria”
- Pennsylvania German: “Ungarn”
- Persian: “مجارستان”
- Persian: “هنگری”
- Picard: “Hongrie”
- Piemontese: “Ungherìa”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Hungrii”
- Polish: “Węgry”
- Pontic: “Ουγγαρία”
- Portuguese: “Hungria”
- Pushto: “مجارستان”
- Pushto: “هانګري هېواد”
- Pushto: “هنګري”
- Pushto: “هنګری”
- Pushto: “هنگري”
- Quechua: “Hungría”
- Quechua: “Unqarya”
- Quechua: “Unriya”
- Romanian: “HU”
- Romanian: “HUN”
- Romanian: “Ungaria”
- Romanian: “Унгария”
- Romansh: “Ungaria”
- Rundi: “Hungariya”
- Russia Buriat: “Унгар”
- Russian: “Magyarország”
- Russian: “Венгрия”
- Rusyn: “Мадярьско”
- Sakizaya: “Hungary”
- Samoan: “Hanikeri”
- Samoan: “Hungary”
- Samogitian: “Vengrėjė”
- Samogitian: “Vėngrėjė”
- Samogitian: “Vingrėjė”
- Sango: “Hongirùii”
- Sanskrit: “हंगरी”
- Sanskrit: “हङ्गरी”
- Santali: “ᱦᱟᱝᱜᱮᱨᱤ”
- Saraiki: “ہنگری”
- Sardinian: “Ungheria”
- Saterfriesisch: “Ungarn”
- Scots: “Hungary”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Ungair”
- Serbian: “hu”
- Serbian: “Mađarska”
- Serbian: “Мађарска”
- Serbian: “Маџарска”
- Serbian: “Хунгарија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mađarska”
- Shan: “မိူင်းႁၢင်ႇၵေႇရီႇ”
- Shona: “Hungariya”
- Shona: “Hungary”
- Sicilian: “Ungarìa”
- Sicilian: “Unghirìa”
- Silesian: “Madźary”
- Sindhi: “هنگري”
- Sindhi: “ھنگري”
- Sinhala: “හන්ගේරියානු සමුහාණ්ඩුව”
- Sinhala: “හන්ගේරියාව”
- Skolt Sami: “Unkar”
- Slovak: “Maďarsko”
- Slovenian: “HU”
- Slovenian: “HUN”
- Slovenian: “Madžarska”
- Slovenian: “Magyarország”
- Slovenian: “Republika Madžarska”
- Somali: “Hangari”
- Somali: “Hungaria”
- Somali: “Hungariya”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماجاریستان”
- Southern Sami: “Ungaaria”
- Southern Sotho: “Hungary”
- Spanish: “Hungría”
- Sranan Tongo: “Ogarnikondre”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵀⵓⵏⴳⴰⵔⵢⴰ”
- Sundanese: “Hungaria”
- Swahili: “Hungaria”
- Swati: “IHangareyi”
- Swedish: “Ungern”
- Swiss German: “Ungarn”
- Tachelhit: “Hungarya”
- Tagalog: “Hungary”
- Tagalog: “Unggarya”
- Tagalog: “Unggriya”
- Tahitian: “Honetari”
- Tajik: “Венгрия”
- Tajik: “Маҷористон”
- Talysh: “Macarıston”
- Talysh: “Mačaryston”
- Tamil: “அங்கேரி”
- Tamil: “ஹங்கேரி”
- Taroko: “Hungary”
- Tatar: “Венгрия”
- Tatar: “Маҗарстан”
- Telugu: “హంగరి”
- Telugu: “హంగేరి”
- Telugu: “హంగేరీ”
- Tetum: “Ungria”
- Thai: “Hungary”
- Thai: “ประเทศฮังการี”
- Thai: “สาธารณรัฐฮังการี”
- Thai: “ฮังการี”
- Tibetan: “ཧངྒ་རི།”
- Tibetan: “ཧུང་གྷ་རི།”
- Tigrinya: “ሀንጋሪ”
- Tok Pisin: “Hangari”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Hungakalia”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ungarn”
- Tsonga: “Hungary”
- Tumbuka: “Hungary”
- Tunisian Arabic: “المجر”
- Turkish: “Macaristan”
- Turkmen: “Wengriýa”
- Twi: “Hungary”
- Tyap: “Honggi̱ri”
- Tyap: “hu”
- Tyap: “HUN”
- Udmurt: “Венгрия”
- Udmurt: “Мадьяршаер”
- Uighur: “ۋېنگرىيە”
- Uighur: “ۋېنگىرىيە”
- Ukrainian: “Мадярщина”
- Ukrainian: “Угорщина”
- Upper Sorbian: “Madźarska”
- Urdu: “مجارستان”
- Urdu: “ہنگری”
- Uzbek: “Mojariston”
- Uzbek: “Vengriya”
- Venetian: “Ongaria”
- Venetian: “Ongarìa”
- Venetian: “Ungaria”
- Venetian: “Ungria”
- Veps: “Mad’jaranma”
- Veps: “Madjaranma”
- Veps: “Vengrii”
- Vietnamese: “Hung-ga-ri (Hungary)”
- Vietnamese: “Hung-ga-ri”
- Vietnamese: “Hungary”
- Vlaams: “Hongareye”
- Vlax Romani: “Ungariya”
- Volapük: “Macarän”
- Võro: “Ungari”
- Walloon: “Hongreye”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hungarya”
- Welsh: “hu”
- Welsh: “Hwngari”
- Western Armenian: “Հունգարիա”
- Western Balochi: “هنگه ری”
- Western Frisian: “Hongarije”
- Western Mari: “Венгри”
- Western Panjabi: “ھنگری”
- Western Panjabi: “ہنگری”
- Wolof: “Ongari”
- Wolof: “Ongiri”
- Wu Chinese: “匈牙利”
- Yakut: “Биэнгирийэ”
- Yakut: “Венгрия”
- Yiddish: “אונגארן”
- Yiddish: “אונגערן”
- Yoruba: “Hungari”
- Yoruba: “Húngárì”
- Yue Chinese: “匈牙利”
- Zeeuws: “Honharije”
- Zhuang: “Yunghyazleih”
- Zulu: “i-Hungary”
- Zulu: “IHungariya”
- “Hongaria”
- “HU”
- “HUN”
- “Hungria”
- “ma Mosijo”
- “Ungari”
- “Ungãrii”
- “Ungherî”
- “Ungheria”
- “Ungherie”
- “Vingrėjė”
- “Унгария”
- “हंगरी”
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