Hungary
Budapest · Central Europe
Hungary is a country in Europe. Its capital city is Budapest, the official currency is the Forint, and the main language is Hungarian.
With a population of roughly 9.6 million people spread over 93,028 km², Hungary is the 95th most populous country in the world and the 108th largest by area. That works out at about 103 people per square kilometre.
Hungary shares land borders with Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria — 7 neighbours in all. Its largest urban centres are Budapest, Debrecen and Szeged. The highest point in the country is Kékes, at 1,014 metres.
For scale, it covers almost exactly the same area as Portugal, while its population is closest to that of United Arab Emirates.
- Capital
- Budapest
- Region
- Central Europe
- Population
- 9,600,000
- Area
- 93,028 km²
- Currency
- Forint
- Main language
- Hungarian
- Highest point
- Kékes
1,014 m - Land borders
- 7
Hungary: things worth knowing
- Lake Balaton is the largest lake in Central Europe and is sometimes called the Hungarian Sea.
- Budapest was formed in 1873 by merging Buda and Óbuda on one bank of the Danube with Pest on the other.
- Hungarian is a Uralic language, unrelated to the Slavic and Germanic tongues surrounding it.
Hungary in context
Europe has 44 sovereign countries in total. Hungary ranks 16th among them by population.
See the full list of Europe countries, or browse all 195 countries.