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Pest County

Pest county is in . 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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is a suburb just southwest of in Pest County. It has the largest population in Pest County with about 67,000 inhabitants.

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is a city in Pest County, approximately 70 km southeast of . is situated between the Duna and Tisza rivers, north of Kiskunság, at the western part of the Great Hungarian Plain.

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is a city of 32,000 people in Pest County, about 30 km east of . It is often visited as a daytrip from Budapest, or as a stop off while travelling to Eastern Hungary.

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is a town in Pest County, west of , Budapest metropolitan area, and has about 28,400 inhabitants. The town lies among the Buda Hills and the Tétény Plateau in the Basin. The town is split by M1, M7 motorways.

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is a town in Pest County in the Budapest metropolitan area. It is located beyond the János Hill at the western city limits of , about 12 km west of the Zero Kilometer Stone in the city center.

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is a town on the southern end of the Csepel Island in Pest County about 40 km south of Budapest. The newer part is on the east side of Danube river. The almost 10,000 residents are mostly Magyars, with a Serb minority.

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is a city in Pest County on the southern border of Budapest, on Csepel Island. It is home to about 40,000 people.

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is a town of 18,000 people in Pest County. It is 27 km southwest of , on the west bank of the Danube, in the "corner of Mezőföld".

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is a town in Pest County, 15 km westwards from . Neighboring town Diósd is also described here.

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is a town in Pest County, . János Arany taught there from about 1851, and a local museum is named for him.

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is a town in Pest County. It is located 30 km west of in the Basin.

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is a district in Pest County. It includes the towns of:…

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is a city of 18,000 people in Pest County in . This article includes Gyömrő and Pilis.

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is a town in Pest county, . In reference to the 2022 census, the population of the town was at 17,644, with the female being at 9,060 while the male were at 8,584.

is a town of 11,000 people in the Gödöllő Hills of Pest County.

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is a town in Pest County. The inner area of the town is in the Zsámbék Basin, it is surrounded by the Buda Hills, its eastern part extends into the Budaörs Basin.

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is a town in Pest county, Budapest metropolitan area, . It is situated 30 kilometers south of .

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is a village in the of Pest county, Budapest metropolitan area, .

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is a village in the central part of Csepel Island in Pest County. It is also known as Újfalu or Nova Villa.

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is a town of roughly 6,000 inhabitants in Pest County. is known for its many natural springs and tranquil scenery and serves as a haven for fishermen, boaters and summer vacationers.

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is in Pest County.

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is a village in Pest county, Budapest metropolitan area, . It has a population of 2,930. Since 2008 the village is the site of a Trail of the Whispering Giants sculpture, the first of Peter Wolf Toth's sculptures located in Europe.

Pest County

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
node 2781485812
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
3046431
Wiki­data ID
Q188612
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Pest County” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Pest”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة بشت”
  • Aragonese: “Condau de Pest”
  • Armenian: “Պեշտ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Peşt medyesi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Peşt”
  • Balinese: “County Pest”
  • Basque: “Pest konderria”
  • Belarusian: “медзье Пешт”
  • Belarusian: “Пешт (медзье)”
  • Belarusian: “Пешт”
  • Belarusian: “Пэшт”
  • Bulgarian: “Пещ”
  • Bulgarian: “Пеща”
  • Catalan: “Pest”
  • Cebuano: “Pest megye”
  • Chinese: “Pest”
  • Chinese: “佩斯州”
  • Corsican: “Cuntea di Pest”
  • Croatian: “Peštanska županija”
  • Czech: “Pest”
  • Czech: “Pešťská župa”
  • Danish: “Pest”
  • Dutch: “Comitaat Pest”
  • Dutch: “Pest(comitaat)”
  • Dutch: “Pest”
  • Erzya: “Пешт (медье)”
  • Erzya: “Пешт”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Pest”
  • Esperanto: “Pest”
  • Estonian: “Pesti komitaat”
  • Finnish: “Pest”
  • French: “comitat de Pest”
  • French: “Pest”
  • Galician: “Condado de Pest”
  • Georgian: “პეშტის მედიე”
  • German: “HU-PE”
  • German: “Komitat Pest”
  • German: “Pest”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז פשט”
  • Hebrew: “פשט”
  • Hungarian: “Pest megye”
  • Hungarian: “Pest vármegye”
  • Indonesian: “Kabupaten Pest”
  • Indonesian: “Pest”
  • Italian: “contea di Pest”
  • Italian: “Contea di Pest”
  • Italian: “Pest”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Pest”
  • Japanese: “ペシュト県”
  • Korean: “페슈트 주”
  • Korean: “페슈트주”
  • Korean: “페스트 주”
  • Latin: “Comitatus Pestiensis”
  • Latvian: “Pešta”
  • Latvian: “Peštas meģe”
  • Lithuanian: “Peštas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pešto medė”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Пешт (медье)”
  • Ossetian: “Пешт”
  • Persian: “پست کانتی”
  • Persian: “پشت”
  • Polish: “Komitat Pest”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Pest”
  • Portuguese: “Pest”
  • Portuguese: “Peste”
  • Quechua: “Pest suyu”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Pesta”
  • Romanian: “Judeţul Pest”
  • Romanian: “Județul Pesta”
  • Romanian: “Pest”
  • Romanian: “Pesta”
  • Russian: “медье Пешт”
  • Russian: “Пешт”
  • Serbian: “Pešta”
  • Serbian: “Пешта”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pest”
  • Slovak: “Peštianska župa”
  • Slovenian: “Pešta”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Pest”
  • Spanish: “Pest”
  • Swahili: “Pest”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Pest”
  • Swedish: “Pest”
  • Swiss German: “Pest”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Pest”
  • Turkish: “Pest ili”
  • Turkish: “Pest”
  • Turkish: “Peşte”
  • Ukrainian: “Пешт”
  • Urdu: “پاشت کاؤنٹی”
  • Veps: “Pešt”
  • Võro: “Pesti maakund”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Pest”
  • Welsh: “Sir Pest”
  • Wu Chinese: “佩斯州”
  • Zeeuws: “Pest”
  • “Pesti maakund”

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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 “Pest County”. Photo: ucsendre, CC BY-SA 3.0.