Everything you need to know about Hungary
Explore Hungary from Budapestโs Danube riverfront to the plains of Hortobรกgy, the northern hills and Lake Balaton. Learn its counties, cities, waters and sights, read the history and everyday traditions behind them, then practise Hungarian.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Hungary
The Danube and Tisza cross a landlocked basin of plains, hills and lakes.
Know the shape of the country
Start with nineteen counties and the separate capital, Budapest, then place twenty-four cities and towns and find four rivers and two lakes. Zoom in for Budapest within Pest. County outlines include cities with county rights for geographic learning; these cities retain their separate municipal status. Boundaries, rivers and Balaton: Natural Earth, public domain. Lake Fertล: ยฉ OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0, shown in full across the Austrian border. Rivers retain Hungaryโs stretches with a small border margin. City coordinates are curated.
Places worth visiting
Essential ยท Parliament & architecture
Hungarian Parliament Building
The Parliament Buildingโs dome and Gothic Revival riverfront face Buda across the Danube. It remains the seat of Hungaryโs National Assembly.
Start with Budapestโs riverfront, Castle Hill and thermal baths, then find sixteen sights across the country: abbeys and villages, lakes and caves, the Hortobรกgy plain and Tokajโs wine landscape. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Hungarian with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Hungary, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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