Southern Great Plain
The Southern Great Plain is a statistical region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North region. The Southern Great Plain includes the counties of Bács-Kiskun, Békés, and Csongrád-Csanád.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Szeged and Kecskemét.
Szeged
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Szeged is a Hungarian city in the Csongrád-Csanád County. The third largest city in the country, it is sometimes called "the city of sunshine", for its brilliant weather.
Kecskemét
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Kecskemét is a town in central Hungary and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun county, half way between Budapest and Szeged, almost equal distance from the two big rivers of the country, Danube and Tisza.
Baja
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Baja is a city with county rights in Bács-Kiskun County, southern Hungary. It is the second largest city in the county, after the county seat at Kecskemét, and is home to some 35,000 people.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Bács-Kiskun County and Csongrád-Csanád County.
Bács-Kiskun County
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Bács-Kiskun is a county located in southern Hungary. It was created by the merger of the pre-World War II Bács-Bodrog and the southern parts of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun counties.
Csongrád-Csanád County
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Csongrád–Csanád county is in Southern Great Plain. Its main city, 1 Szeged, is covered in a separate article.
Békés County
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Békés is an administrative division in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád-Csanád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar.
Southern Great Plain
- Type: Region with 1,240,000 residents
- Description: planning and statistical region of Hungary
- Categories: planning and statistical region of Hungary and locality
- Location: Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
46.4837° or 46° 29′ 1″ northLongitude of center
20.1419° or 20° 8′ 31″ eastPopulation
1,240,000OpenStreetMap ID
node 775498607OpenStreetMap feature
place=regionWikidata ID
Q630305
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Southern Great Plain” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جنوب السهل العظيم”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənubi Alföld”
- Basque: “Hegoaldeko Lautada Handia”
- Catalan: “Gran Plana Meridional”
- Chinese: “南大平原”
- Chinese: “大平原南部”
- Croatian: “Južni Alföld”
- Dutch: “Southern Great Plain”
- Esperanto: “Suda Ebenaĵo”
- Estonian: “Lõuna-Alföld”
- French: “Grande Plaine méridionale”
- Galician: “Gran Chaira do Sur”
- German: “Südliche Große Tiefebene”
- Hebrew: “דרום המישור הגדול”
- Hebrew: “המישור הגדול הדרומי”
- Hungarian: “Dél-Alföld”
- Indonesian: “Dél Alföld”
- Italian: “Grande Pianura Meridionale”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dél-Alföld”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den sørlege store sletta”
- Norwegian: “Dél-Alföld”
- Persian: “دشت بزرگ جنوبی”
- Persian: “ساترن گریت پلین”
- Quechua: “Dél-Alföld”
- Romanian: “Sudul Marii Câmpii”
- Russian: “Южный Альфёльд”
- Serbian: “Велика јужна равница”
- Serbian: “Регија велике јужне равнице”
- Slovenian: “Dél-Alföld”
- Slovenian: “Južna velika nižina”
- Spanish: “Dél-Alföld”
- Spanish: “Gran Llanura Meridional”
- Swedish: “Södra Slättlandet”
- Turkish: “Güney Alföld”
- Ukrainian: “Південна Велика рівнина”
- Ukrainian: “Південний Великий Альфельд”
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