Pest County
Pest county is in Central Hungary. It surrounds the national capital Budapest, but does not include it. About 2/3 of the county's population of 1.3 million live in the suburbs of Budapest.
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Szigetszentmiklós
Szada
Pest County
- Type: County with 1,260,000 residents
- Description: county of Hungary
- Also known as: “Comitaat Pest”, “comitat de Pest”, “Comitatul Pesta”, “Departemento Pest”, “HU-PE”, “HU120”, “Judeţul Pest”, “Kabupaten Pest”, “Pest(comitaat)”, “Pešto medė”, “Pešťská župa”, “Wilaya ya Pest”, “медье Пешт”, “Пешт (медзье)”, and “페스트 주”
- Neighbors: Bács-Kiskun County, Budapest, Fejér County, Heves County, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County, Komárom-Esztergom County, and Nógrád County
- Categories: county of Hungary and locality
- Location: Central Hungary, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
47.3716° or 47° 22′ 18″ north
Longitude of center
19.3453° or 19° 20′ 43″ east
Population
1,260,000
Elevation
126 metres (413 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zeeuws—“Pest County” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፔስት ሪክብ”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بشت”
- Aragonese: “Condau de Pest”
- Armenian: “Պեշտ”
- Azerbaijani: “Peşt medyesi”
- Azerbaijani: “Peşt”
- Balinese: “County Pest”
- Basque: “Pest konderria”
- Belarusian: “медзье Пешт”
- Belarusian: “Пэшт”
- Bengali: “পেস্ট কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Пещ”
- Bulgarian: “Пеща”
- Catalan: “Pest”
- Cebuano: “Pest megye”
- Chinese: “佩斯州”
- Corsican: “Cuntea di Pest”
- Croatian: “Peštanska županija”
- Czech: “Pest”
- Danish: “Pest”
- Dutch: “Pest”
- Erzya: “Пешт (медье)”
- Erzya: “Пешт”
- Esperanto: “Pest”
- Estonian: “Pesti komitaat”
- Finnish: “Pest”
- French: “Pest”
- Galician: “Condado de Pest”
- Georgian: “პეშტის მედიე”
- German: “Komitat Pest”
- German: “Pest”
- Hausa: “Pest County”
- Hebrew: “מחוז פשט”
- Hebrew: “פשט”
- Hindi: “पेश्त प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Pest megye”
- Hungarian: “Pest vármegye”
- Indonesian: “Pest”
- Italian: “contea di Pest”
- Italian: “Contea di Pest”
- Italian: “Provincia di Pest”
- Japanese: “ペシュト県”
- Javanese: “Pest County”
- Kazakh: “Пешт Аудандығы”
- Kirghiz: “Пешт Чилтеси”
- Korean: “페슈트 주”
- Korean: “페슈트주”
- Latin: “Comitatus Pestiensis”
- Latvian: “Pešta”
- Latvian: “Peštas meģe”
- Lithuanian: “Peštas”
- Lombard: “Contea de Pest”
- Macedonian: “Пешта”
- Malay: “Pest”
- Malay: “Wilayah Pest”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pest”
- Mongolian: “Пешт”
- Northern Frisian: “Pest (Komitaat)”
- Northern Frisian: “Pest”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pest”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pest fylke”
- Norwegian: “Pest”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Comtat de Pest”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pestscir”
- Oromo: “Pest County”
- Ossetian: “Пешт (медье)”
- Ossetian: “Пешт”
- Panjabi: “ਪੈਸਟ ਕाਊਂਟੀ”
- Persian: “پست کانتی”
- Persian: “پشت”
- Polish: “Komitat Pest”
- Portuguese: “Pest”
- Portuguese: “Peste”
- Pushto: “پست کونټی”
- Quechua: “Pest suyu”
- Romanian: “Județul Pesta”
- Romanian: “Pesta”
- Russian: “Пешт”
- Serbian: “Pešta”
- Serbian: “Пешта”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pest”
- Slovak: “Peštianska župa”
- Slovenian: “Pešta”
- Somali: “Pest County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Pest”
- Spanish: “Pest”
- Swahili: “Pest”
- Swedish: “Pest”
- Swiss German: “Pest”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Пешт”
- Tatar: “Пешт Районы”
- Turkish: “Pest ili”
- Turkish: “Peşte”
- Ukrainian: “Пешт”
- Urdu: “پاشت کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Pest County”
- Veps: “Pešt”
- Võro: “Pesti maakund”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Pest”
- Welsh: “Sir Pest”
- Wu Chinese: “佩斯州”
- Zeeuws: “Pest”
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