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Coordinates: 47°28′19″N 19°03′01″E / 47.47194°N 19.05028°E / 47.47194; 19.05028
Central Hungary
Közép-Magyarország
Region
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البلدFlag of Hungary.svg المجر
العاصمةبوداپست
المساحة
 • الإجمالي6٬919 كم² (2٬671 ميل²)
التعداد
 (2021[1])
 • الإجمالي3٬000٬000
 • الكثافة430/km2 (1٬100/sq mi)
Gross Regional Product
 • Total€73.5 billion
 • Per capita€24,500
منطقة التوقيتUTC+1 (CET)
 • الصيف (التوقيت الصيفي)UTC+2 (CEST)
NUTS codeHU1, HU10
HDI (2019)0.932[3]
very high · 1st
Location of Central Hungary region within Hungary

Central Hungary (مجرية: Közép-Magyarország) is one of the seven statistical regions in Hungary (NUTS 1 and NUTS 2). It includes Budapest، المقاطعة (the capital of the region) and Pest، المقاطعة.

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Administration

Central Hungary's subregions (population figures from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office as of 2009)


Budapest، المقاطعة

Subregion Seat Area Population Number of
settlements
Budapest Budapest 525.16 km2 (202.77 sq mi) 1,712,210 1

Pest، المقاطعة

Subregion Seat Area Population Number of
settlements
Aszód Aszód 241.41 km2 (93.21 sq mi) 35,451 9
Budaörs Budaörs 240.36 km2 (92.80 sq mi) 85,115 10
Cegléd Cegléd 1,234.00 km2 (476.45 sq mi) 121,149 15
Dabas Dabas 498.68 km2 (192.54 sq mi) 44,183 10
Dunakeszi Dunakeszi 125.17 km2 (48.33 sq mi) 79,123 4
Érd Érd 117.95 km2 (45.54 sq mi) 99,536 4
Gödöllő Gödöllő 380.88 km2 (147.06 sq mi) 104,471 12
Gyál Gyál 286.54 km2 (110.63 sq mi) 45,944 5
Monor Monor 449.62 km2 (173.60 sq mi) 110,287 15
Nagykáta Nagykáta 711.85 km2 (274.85 sq mi) 76,909 16
Pilisvörösvár Pilisvörösvár 245.44 km2 (94.76 sq mi) 66,702 14
Ráckeve Ráckeve 628.33 km2 (242.60 sq mi) 141,756 20
Szentendre Szentendre 326.58 km2 (126.09 sq mi) 77,676 13
Szob Szob 314.73 km2 (121.52 sq mi) 12,605 13
Vác Vác 431.81 km2 (166.72 sq mi) 70,558 19
Veresegyház Veresegyház 159.79 km2 (61.70 sq mi) 36,793 8

Demography

  • Total population 2,925,500 (2009)
    • 14% aged 0–14 years
    • 69% aged 15–64 years
    • 17% aged 65 and over [4]

Economy

Central Hungary is the richest and most developed region of the country. The unemployment rate stood at 2.7% in 2017 and was much lower than the national and the european average.[5]

Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
unemployment rate
(in %)
5.1% 4.8% 4.5% 6.5% 8.9% 9.0% 9.5% 8.7% 6.2% 5.3% 3.8% 2.7%

Tourism

Central Hungary is part of the Budapest Central Transdanubia Tourist Region.

Budapest

In 1987 a World Heritage Site was declared which includes Buda Castle, the Danube Riverbank, the Andrássy Avenue and its historic surroundings, the Millennium Underground Railway and Heroes' Square.

Other important landmarks in Buda are the Gellért Hill and the tomb of Gül Baba and Rudas Baths built during the Ottoman rule of Hungary, ruins of Old Buda, the Coliseum in Nagyszombat Street and the ruins of Aquincum. In the Buda Hills are the Chairlift, the Children's railway and caves with stalagmites and stalactites.

The most important landmarks in Pest are the Hungarian Parliament Building, the St. Stephen's Basilica, the Inner City Parish Church, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Vigadó Concert Hall, the Hungarian National Museum, the New York Palace on the Small Boulevard, the Dohány Street Synagogue, the Grand Boulevard, and the Museum of Applied Arts.

Other important displays are at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Hungarian National Gallery, the Ethnographic Museum, the Budapest History Museum and Statue Park.

Important landmarks are Budapest's oldest bridges, such as the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, the Margaret Bridge, the Liberty Bridge. The biggest parks are very popular, especially the City Park with Vajdahunyad Castle, the Széchenyi thermal bath, the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden and the Margaret Island. Budapest is world-famous for its hot spas too.

Budapest holds many perennial events, for example Budapest Fair, Fireworks and Budapest Parade.

Pest، المقاطعة

Places of interest in Pest، المقاطعة are Gödöllő (Royal Castle and Arboretum), Ráckeve (Serbian cathedral and Savoya Castle), Szentendre (Baroque town square, Margit Kovács Museum, Ethnographic Open Air Museum), Vác (cathedral, triumphal arch) and Visegrád (Visegrád Castle).

Other landmarks are the church (built in the Middle Ages) in Zsámbék, the Reformed church of the Holy Roman Empire, the church in Fót in the Romantic style, Apaj plain, ancient juniper fields in Tatárszentgyörgy, equestrianism in Pusztavacs, Attila Rise in Tápiószentmárton, the arboretum in Vácrátót and the bear sanctuary in Veresegyház.

The Pilis Mountains offer plenty of opportunities for hiking. There are also the Visegrád Hills, Ördögmalom waterfall, Gödöllő National Park and Ócsa National Park.

See also

References

  1. ^ Population on 1 January by age, sex and NUTS 2 region, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/DEMO_R_D2JAN/default/table?lang=en 
  2. ^ "EU regions by GDP, Eurostat". Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  4. ^ Hungarian Central Statistical Office, 2009.
  5. ^ "Regional Unemployment by NUTS2 Region". Eurostat.

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