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Hungary

Magyarország  (Hungarian)
Anthem: "Himnusz" (Hungarian)[1]
"Hime"
Location o  Hungary  (daurk green) – on the European continent  (green & daurk grey) – in the European Union  (green)  —  [Legend]
Location o  Hungary  (daurk green)

– on the European continent  (green & daurk grey)
– in the European Union  (green)  —  [Legend]

Caipital
and largest city
Budapest
47°26′N 19°15′E / 47.433°N 19.250°E / 47.433; 19.250
Offeecial leid
an naitional leid		Hungarian[2]
Ethnic groups
(2011)
Releegion
Demonym(s)Hungarian, Magyar
GovrenmentUnitar pairlamentary
constitutional republic
• President
Tamás Sulyok
Viktor Orbán
László Kövér
LegislaturOrszággyűlés (Naitional Assembly)
Foundation
895[5]
4–6 Julie 907
25 December 1000[6]
24 Apryle 1222
29 August 1526
2 September 1686
15 Mairch 1848
20 Mairch 1867
4 Juin 1920
23 October 1989
1 Mey 2004
Aurie
• Total
93,030[7] km2 (35,920 sq mi) (108t)
• Water (%)
0.74%
Population
• 2017 estimate
9,797,561[8] (92nt)
• Density
105.3/km2 (272.7/sq mi) (103rd)
GDP (PPP)2017 estimate
• Total
$284.266 billion[9] (57t)
• Per capita
$28,965[9] (45t)
GDP (nominal)2017 estimate
• Tot
$125.297 billion[9] (58t)
• Per capita
$12,767[9] (54t)
Gini (2014)positive decrease 27.9[10]
law · 16t
HDI (2015)Increase 0.836[11]
verra heich · 43rd
CurrencyForint (HUF)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+2 (CEST)
Date formatyyyy/mm/dd
Drivin sideright
Cawin code+36
ISO 3166 codeHU
Internet TLD.hua
  1. Also .eu as part of the European Union.
Territorial organization

Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország) is a kintra in Europe. It's bund bi Ukraine an Romanie tae the east, Serbie an Croatie tae the sooth, Austrick an Slovenie tae the wast, an Slovakie tae the north. Wi aboot 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a medium-sized member state o the European Union.[12] The offeecial leid is Hungarian, that is the maist widely spoken Uralic leid in the warld.[13] Hungary's caipital an its lairgest ceity an metropolis is Budapest, a signeeficant economic hub, clessifee'd as a leadin global ceity.[14] Major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs an Győr.

Follaein centuries o successive habitation bi Celts, Romans, Germanic fowk, Wast Slavs, Avars, an the Huns the foondation o Hungary wis laid in the late 9t century bi the Hungarian grand prince Árpád in the conquest o the Carpathian Basin.[15][16] He founded the Principality o Hungary whilk lasted from 895-1000. His great-grandson Stephen I ascendit the throne in 1000, convertin the kintra tae a Christian kinrick. Bi the 12t century, Hungary becam a middle pouer within the Wastren warld, reachin a gowden age bi the 15t century.[17] Follaein the Battle o Mohács in 1526 an aboot 150 year o pairtial Ottoman occupation (1541–1699), Hungary cam unner Habsburg rule, an later formed the great pouer Austro–Hungarian Empire thegither wi Austrick.[18]

Hungary's current mairches war established in 1920 bi the Treaty o Trianon efter Warld War I, whan the kintra lost 71% o its territory, 58% o its population, an 32% o ethnic Hungarians.[19][20][21] Follaein the interwar period, Hungary jynt the Axis Powers in Warld War II, sufferin signeeficant damage an casualties.[22][23] Hungary becam a satellite state o the Soviet Union, that contreibutit tae the establishment o a socialist republic spannin fower decades (1949[24]–1989[25]).[26] The kintra gained widespread internaitional attention as a result o its Revolution o 1956 an the seminal appenin o its previously-restrictit mairch wi Austrick in 1989, that accelerated the collapse o the Eastren Bloc.[27][28] On 23 October 1989, Hungary becam a democratic pairlamentary republic.[29]

In the 21st century, Hungary is a middle pouer[30][31] an haes the warld's 57t lairgest economy bi nominal GDP, as weel as the 58t lairgest bi PPP, oot o 191 kintras meisurt bi IMF. As a substantial actor in several industrial an technological sectors,[32] it is the warld's 35t lairgest exporter an 34t lairgest importer o guids. Hungary is an OECD heich-income economy wi a verra heich staundart o leevin.[33][34] It keeps up a social siccarity an universal heal care seestem, an a tuition-free varsity eddication.[35][36] Hungary performs weel in internaitional rankins: it is 20t in quality o life, 24t in Guid Kintra Index, 28t in inequality-adjuistit human development, 32nt in the Social Progress Index, 33rd in Global Innovation Index an ranks as the 15t saufest country in the warld.

Hungary jynt the European Union in 2004 an haes been pairt o the Schengen Area syne 2007.[37] Hungary is a member o the Unitit Naitions, NATO, WTO, Warld Bank, the AIIB, the Cooncil o Europe, the Visegrád Group an mair.[38] Weel kent for its rich cultural history, Hungary haes contreibutit signeeficantly tae airts, muisic, leeteratur, sports an science an technology.[39][40][41][42] Hungary is the 11t maist popular kintra as a tourist destination in Europe, attractin 15.8 million internaitional tourists in 2017.[43] It is hame tae the lairgest thermal watter cave seestem an the seicont lairgest thermal loch in the warld, the lairgest loch in Central Europe an the lairgest naitural gresslands in Europe.[44][45]

References

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  2. ↑ "The Fundamental Law of Hungary" (PDF). Hungarian State. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 29 Juin 2014. Retrieved 8 Mey 2017.
  3. ↑ "2011 Hungary Census Report" (PDF). ksh.hu. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 17 Julie 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  4. ↑ ANALYSIS (10 Mey 2017). "Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 13 Mey 2017. Retrieved 12 Mey 2017. Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 1, Scholastic Library Pub., 2006, p. 581
  6. ↑ University of British Columbia. Committee for Medieval Studies, Studies in medieval and renaissance history, Committee for Medieval Studies, University of British Columbia, 1980, p. 159
  7. ↑ "Hungary". CIA The World Factbook. Archived frae the original on 10 Juin 2009. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2014.
  8. ↑ "Population by type of settlement – annually". Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 24 December 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  9. ↑ a b c d "Hungary". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 29 Apryle 2017.
  10. ↑ "Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income (source: SILC)". Eurostat Data Explorer. Archived frae the original on 4 Mairch 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  11. ↑ "Human Development Report 2015" (PDF). United Nations. 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  12. ↑ "Eurostat – Population on 1 January 2015". European Commission. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "Uralic (Finno-Ugrian) languages, Classification of the Uralic (Finno-Ugrian) languages, with present numbers of speakers and areas of distribution (last updated 24 September 2015)". helsinki.fi. 6 Juin 2017. Retrieved 6 Juin 2017.
  14. ↑ "Budapest is classified as Alpha- leading global city". Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network, Loughborough University. 13 Apryle 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  15. ↑ "Hungary in the Carpathian Basin" (PDF). Lajos Gubcsi, PhD. 6 Juin 2017. Retrieved 6 Juin 2017.
  16. ↑ Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 36. Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). 1982. p. 419.
  17. ↑ Kristó Gyula – Barta János – Gergely Jenő: Magyarország története előidőktől 2000-ig (History of Hungary from the prehistory to 2000), Pannonica Kiadó, Budapest, 2002, ISBN 963-9252-56-5, p. 687, pp. 37, pp. 113 ("Magyarország a 12. század második felére jelentős európai tényezővé, középhatalommá vált."/"By the 12th century Hungary became an important European constituent, became a middle power.", "A Nyugat részévé vált Magyarország ... /Hungary became part of the West"), pp. 616–644
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  19. ↑ Richard C. Frucht (31 December 2004). Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 360. ISBN 978-1-57607-800-6.
  20. ↑ "Trianon, Treaty of". The Columbia Encyclopedia. 2009.
  21. ↑ "Text of the Treaty, Treaty of Peace Between The Allied and Associated Powers and Hungary And Protocol and Declaration, Signed at Trianon June 4, 1920". Retrieved 10 Juin 2009.
  22. ↑ Hungary: The Unwilling Satellite Archived 16 Februar 2007 at the Wayback Machine John F. Montgomery, Hungary: The Unwilling Satellite.http://kapos.hu/hirek/kis_szines/2018-06-16/megerkezett_az_idei_balaton_sound_himnusza.html Devin-Adair Company, New York, 1947. Reprint: Simon Publications, 2002.
  23. ↑ Thomas, The Royal Hungarian Army in World War II, pg. 11
  24. ↑ "1949. évi XX. törvény. A Magyar Népköztársaság Alkotmánya" [Act XX of 1949. The Constitution of the Hungarian People's Republic]. Magyar Közlöny (Hungarian Bulletin) (in Hungarian). Budapest: Állami Lapkiadó Nemzeti Vállalat. 4 (174): 1361. 20 August 1949.
  25. ↑ "1989. évi XXXI. törvény az Alkotmány módosításáról" [Act XXXI of 1989 on the Amendment of the Constitution]. Magyar Közlöny (Hungarian Bulletin) (in Hungarian). Budapest: Pallas Lap- és Könyvkiadó Vállalat. 44 (74): 1219. 23 October 1989.
  26. ↑ It wis govrened bi the Socialist Wirkers' Pairty, that wis unner the influence o the Soviet Union. – Rao, B. V. (2006), History of Modern Europe Ad 1789–2002: A.D. 1789–2002, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
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  28. ↑ Kamm, Henry (17 Juin 1989). "Hungarian Who Led '56 Revolt Is Buried as a Hero". The New York Times.
  29. ↑ "1989. évi XXXI. törvény az Alkotmány módosításáról" [Act XXXI of 1989 on the Amendment of the Constitution]. Magyar Közlöny (in Hungarian). Budapest: Pallas Lap- és Könyvkiadó Vállalat. 44 (74): 1219. 23 October 1989.
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  37. ↑ "Benefits of EU Membership". Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 6 Juin 2017. Archived frae the original on 8 Juin 2017. Retrieved 6 Juin 2017.
  38. ↑ "International organizations in Hungary". Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archived frae the original on 13 Mairch 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016. Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help)
  39. ↑ "Hungary's Nobel Prize Winners, 13 Hungarian win Nobel Prize yet". Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  40. ↑ "Population per Gold Medal. Hungary has the second highest gold medal per capita in the world. All together it has 175 gold medal until 2016". medalspercapita.com. Archived frae the original on 30 Julie 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  41. ↑ Hungarian literature – ”Popular poetry is the only real poetry was the opinion of Sándor Petőfi, one of the greatest Hungarian poets, whose best poems rank among the masterpieces of world literature.”, Encyclopædia Britannica, 2012 edition
  42. ↑ Szalipszki, pg.12
    Refers tae the kintra as "widely considered" tae be a "home of music".
  43. ↑ World Tourism Organization (2018), UNWTO Tourism Highlights, 2018 Edition, UNWTO, Madrid. 2018. doi:10.18111/9789284419876.
  44. ↑ "Search – Global Edition – The New York Times". International Herald Tribune. 29 Mairch 2009. Retrieved 20 September 2009.
  45. ↑ "Lake Balaton". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 20 Mairch 2008.


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