COUNTRY ARCHIVE

Hungary

EUROPE · CENTRAL EUROPE
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Hungary is a country in Central Europe, with its capital at Budapest, and is home to roughly 9.6M people.

Hungarian is the official language; the currency in circulation is Hungarian forint (Ft); people from here are called Hungarian.

> INTEL_
CAPITALBudapest47.498 N / 19.040 E
POPULATION9,562,065~9.6M
AREA92,866 km²
LANGUAGESHungarian
CURRENCYHungarian forint (Ft)
DEMONYMHungarian
UN MEMBERYES
LANDLOCKED⛰ YES, NO COASTLINE
> NOTABLE_
  • »Hungarian is not related to the languages of any of its neighbours; its closest relatives are Finnish and Estonian, and even those are distant.
  • »Budapest has more thermal springs than any other capital city.
> BORDERS_

Hungary touches seven neighbours: Austria to the west, Croatia to the southwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Slovakia to the north, Slovenia to the west and Ukraine to the east. Directions run from one centre to the other.

ROMANIACROATIAUKRAINESERBIAAUSTRIASLOVAKIASLOVENIABUDAPEST
HUNGARYBORDERING COUNTRIESCAPITALNEIGHBOURS CROPPED TO FRAME
> THE CAPITAL_

Budapest was three separate cities until 1873: hilly Buda and Óbuda on the west bank, flat Pest on the east. It has more thermal springs than any other capital.

> SCALE_

92,866 km² (35,856 sq mi), 108th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Western Sahara.

Population 9,562,065, 97th of 198 on file. That averages 103 per km² (267 per sq mi).

> THE FLAG_

Red for strength, white for faithfulness, green for hope, the colours of the Árpád dynasty's arms, arranged as a tricolour after the French model during the reform era.

Close enough to Netherlands's flag to cost you a guess.