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Northern Great Plain

The Northern Great Plain is a statistical region of . 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.
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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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is the county seat and largest city in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county in Eastern .

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, sitting in the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain, is the self-proclaimed capital of the river Tisza, the gate of Nagykunság, and the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. The surrounding is covered in a separate article.

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Jász–Nagykun–Szolnok is an administrative county in . It lies in central Hungary and shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Heves, Borsod–Abaúj–Zemplén, Hajdú–Bihar, Békés, Csongrád, and Bács–Kiskun.

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Szabolcs–Szatmár–Bereg is an administrative county in northeastern , bordering , , and . It shares borders with the Hungarian counties and .

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is in Northern Great Plain. The natural endowments of the county offer horseback riding, fishing and cycling. The favourable climate, the short spring and the long, sunny autumn provide opportunities for hiking.

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, also known as Kisköre Reservoir, is the largest artificial lake in . It is located at the southeastern edge of Heves county, next to counties Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hajdú-Bihar and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok.

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National Park - The Puszta is a first and biggest national park in . The park in is a part of the Northern Great Plain, and is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage site.

Northern Great Plain

Latitude of center
47.4615° or 47° 27′ 41″ north
Longitude of center
21.3272° or 21° 19′ 38″ east
Population
1,450,000
Open­Street­Map ID
node 775498608
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Wiki­data ID
Q905227
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Northern Great Plain” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شمال السهل العظيم”
  • Armenian: “Հյուսիսային Ալֆյոլդ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimali Alföld”
  • Basque: “Iparraldeko Lautada Handia”
  • Chinese: “北大平原”
  • Chinese: “大平原北部”
  • Croatian: “Észak-Alföld”
  • Croatian: “Sjeverni Alföld”
  • Dutch: “Northern Great Plain”
  • Esperanto: “Norda Ebenaĵo”
  • Estonian: “Eszak-Alföld”
  • Estonian: “Észak-Alföld”
  • Estonian: “HU32”
  • Estonian: “Põhja-Alföld”
  • French: “Grande Plaine septentrionale”
  • Galician: “Gran Chaira do Norte”
  • German: “Nördliche Große Tiefebene”
  • Hebrew: “המישור הגדול הצפוני”
  • Hebrew: “צפון המישור הגדול”
  • Hungarian: “Észak-Alföld”
  • Italian: “Grande Pianura Settentrionale”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Észak-Alföld”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den nordlege store sletta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Észak-Alföld”
  • Norwegian: “Észak-Alföld”
  • Persian: “دشت بزرگ شمالی”
  • Persian: “نورترن گریت پلین”
  • Quechua: “Chinchay Hatun P’allta”
  • Quechua: “Észak-Alföld”
  • Romanian: “Nordul Marii Câmpii”
  • Russian: “Северный Альфельд”
  • Russian: “Северный Альфёльд”
  • Serbian: “Észak-Alföld”
  • Serbian: “Regija velike severne ravnice”
  • Serbian: “Регија велике северне равнице”
  • Slovenian: “Severna velika nižina”
  • Spanish: “Eszak Alfold”
  • Spanish: “Eszak Alföld”
  • Spanish: “Észak Alfold”
  • Spanish: “Észak Alföld”
  • Spanish: “Eszak-Alfold”
  • Spanish: “Eszak-Alföld”
  • Spanish: “Észak-Alfold”
  • Spanish: “Észak-Alföld”
  • Spanish: “Gran Llanura Septentrional”
  • Swedish: “Eszak-Alföld”
  • Swedish: “Észak-Alföld”
  • Swedish: “Norra Slättlandet”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Alföld”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Great Plain”
  • Ukrainian: “Північна Велика рівнина”
  • Ukrainian: “Північний Великий Альфельд”

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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 Wikipedia page “Northern Great Plain”. Photo: Inkey, Public domain.