Hungary

- Part of EU, NATO

- Capital: Budapest
- Currency: forint
- Religion: Catholicism
- Regressive age pyramid
- Finno-Ugric nation
- Neighbors: Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine,
Romania, Serbia, Croatia

Location
- Landlocked lowland country
- Lowlands: Great Hungarian Plain (major
river Tisza ), Little Hungarian Plain
- Mt. Ranges - fragments of Carpathians :
Bakony, Mátra, Bukk, Zemplínske vrchy
- Lakes: : Balaton (the largest Central European lake), Lake Neusiedl
- climate: continental with long and dry summers
- Hungarian puszta - dry steppe (the largest in Europe)
- chernozem, agricultural soil
History
- Magyars came from Central Asia to Central Europe in 6th CE – Slavs already lived there
- After the fall of Great Moravia, Kingdom of Hungary was formed in which Slovak people coexisted with
Hungarians for more than 1000 years.
- After WWII Hungary became a socialist country
Cities
- Debrecen
- Miskolc
- Szeged
- Pécs
- Gyor

Economy
- Agriculture: fertile soil and warm climate = growing wheat, corn, sunflower vegetables (peppers,
tomatoes, watermelons, apricots, peaches...) and grapevine (Tokaj)
- natural resources: bauxite (aluminium production - Costellium Automotive Žilina )
- industry: mechanical engineering (cars, wagons, agricultural machines...), chemical (processing of oil
transported via Adria pipeline), food industry (famous Hungarian dishes - segedín, paprika, halászle)
- Tourism: important for economy
- the most visited places:
➡ Budapest, Balaton, Tokaj
➡ NP Hortobágy (puszta with marshes)
➡ NP Aggtelek (caves connected to Slovak Karst) – cave Baradla (the tallest stalagmite)
➡ Esztergom (Basilica Major – former seat of Hungarian Archbishop)
➡ Fisherman’s Basiliom, Hungarian Parliament ( Országhác ), Széchenyi Spa