Information About Hungary - Hungarian Attractions

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Climate

Hungary has a temperate climate which means that temperatures in the summer are high. In general, almost every day 25 degrees Celsius and there are days when even the temperature is above 35 degrees Celsius. The highest temperature ever measured in Hungary was on July 20, 2007 in Kiskunhalas and was 41.9 ° C. The nights are especially at Lake Balaton very sultry. In the interior you can have some pretty cool nights. Now and then it can also be something worse again with a single thunderstorm.
The winter cold is good. The low of Hungary is situated on February 16, 1940 in Miskolc-Görömbölytapolca with -35.0 °C.
The rainfall varies from 500 to 600 mm in the plains and from 600 to 800 mm in hilly areas. Hungary has about 1785 hours of sunshine annually. The coldest month is January (-1), while the warmest month is August with an average of over 21 degrees.

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Formula 1 Hungary

The Formula 1 Hungary is held at the Hungaroring circuit near Mogyoród about 30 kilometers east of Budapest. It is the first circuit that was used in the former Eastern bloc. This was in 1986. It's a twisty circuit where overtaking is virtually impossible. The circuit is more than 4 kilometers long. The race has 70 laps.

In 2026, the race was held on July 26. The official sales site is Tickets Formula 1 Hungary .

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General

The Republic of Hungary lies in the middle of Europe. The country is completely surrounded by land (it is not adjacent to any sea). It lies in the so-called Carpathian basin. In 1989 the name was changed from People's Republic of Hungary to Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság or Magyarorszag) in commemorating the revolution against the communist dictatorship. Since 2004 Hungary is a part of the EU.

The following countries constitute a border with Hungary: Austria 356 km, Croatia 355 km, Romania 453 km, Serbia 164 km, Slovakia 679 km, Slovenia 102 km and 137 km Ukraine, a total of 2246 km.

Hungary has a total area of 93,036 km2 and a population of 10.023 million (March 2009). Budapest is the capital and has 1.7 million inhabitants in 2009. Then Debrecen is the largest, the city has around 200000 inhabitants.

The highest point of Hungary is the Kekestető with a height of 1015 meter. This is also the main ski area of Hungary. The lowest point lies in Gyálaret, now a district of Szeged. Here is the height 75.8 meters. Pusztavacs is the geographical center of Hungary.

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Important phonenumbers

Emergency: 112
Ambulance (Mentők): 104
Police (Rendőrseg): 107
Fire (Tűzoltóság): 105
Roadside Assistance: 188
Phone number Information in Hungary: 198
Phone number Information outside Hungary: 199
Tourinform Hotline from Hungary: 06 (80) 630-800
Tourinform from abroad: +36 (30) 303-0600

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Landscape

Hungary is generally divided into four geographical regions: the Nagy Alföld(Great Plain), the Northern Highlands, Dunántúl (Transdanubia) and Kis Alföld (Small Plain).
The Nagy Alföld covers more than half of the country lies east of the river Duna (Danube), which cuts from north to south through Hungary. The surface drains through the River Tisza and is an important agricultural area. The famous puszta (Puszta) - a formerly nomadic steppe area was used as natural pasture - is extracted, but a small part in the East is left in its natural state.

The second area are the mountains in the north. The Mátra mountains and Bükk mountains range have tops to 1000 m. At the foot of these mountains are important industrial cities of Budapest and Miskolc.

Dunántúl covers the entire area west of the Danube, with the exception of Kis Alföld in the northwest. This region consists mainly of rolling hills and low mountains. It is an agricultural area, the soil contains minerals. Lake Balaton, one of the largest lakes in Europe, is situated in Dunántúl.

The Kis Alföld is mostly flat and low, except the foothills of the Austrian Alps on the western border.

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Provinces

Hungary is divided into 19 provinces and the capital Budapest.

Overview provinces and capitals:
* Bács-Kiskun (Kecskemét)
* Baranya (Pécs)
* Békés (Békéscsaba)
* Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (Miskolc)
* Csongrád (Szeged)
* Fejér (Székesfehérvár)
* Gyor-Moson-Sopron (Győr)
* Hajdú-Bihar (Debrecen)
* Heves (Eger)
* Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok (Szolnak
* Komárom-Esztergom (Tatabánya)
* Pest (Salgótarján)
* Pest (Budapest)
* Somogy (Kaposvár)
* Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg (Nyíregyháza)
* Tolna (Szekszárd)
* Vas (Szombathely)
* Veszprém (Veszprém)
* Zala (Zalagerszeg)

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Railroad

In Hungary there are two train companies: MÁV and GYSEV. GYSEV drives in the west of the country and also in Austria. It connects Sopron and Győr with Ebenfurth (Austria) and goes to Szombathely and Szentgotthárd. The MÁV drives in the rest of the country.

MÁV timetable: MÁV .
Timetables GYSEV: GYSEV .

Rovásírás (Old-Hungarian script)

Old Hungarian script (Rovásírás) is the script the Hungarians used to use before the introduction of the Latin alphabet in 1000 because of the Kingdom of Hungary and Christianity. The name Rovás comes from the Hungarian word for "cutting", because the letters were carved on wood or sticks. After 1000 the script did not disappear and remained in use in Transylvania.
Scholars suggest that Rovás is better suited to write Hungarian than the Latin script. The script is currently gaining popularity again. There are even proposals for missing letters as W and Q, to create new characters. There is even an official request for the script to be fully accepted into Unicode. Original the script was read from right to left, but now the other way is also common.

In eastern Hungary and Transylvania many places write their names now again in this script.

See for example: Hungarian Rovás Homepage

Example of script:

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Toll

The use of the highways in Hungary is a mandatory E-vignette. This is different from vignettes in neighboring countries like Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia and Romania, where you must paste a vignette on the windscreen. In Hungary, one must buy a vignette, in which the license plate is recorded. You must keep the receipt thereof and upon request show. This is automatically enforced with cameras on the ramps. One does not need an additional sticker on the windshield to paste. Cars fall into the class D1 and you can only buy vignettes for four days, weekly, monthly or yearly vignette. The cost for one weeks vignette are 3500 HUF, 4780 HUF for one months and 42,980 HUF for one years (2019 prices). One week vignette costs 10 euro approximately and an one months vignette 15 euro, depending on the exact exchange rate. More information on Toll . Since 2015 there is also a region vignette. It costs HUF 5000.

Be aware of 2015 the M0 is not completely toll free anymore. A map of toll roads is here.

Wich roads are tollfree:
* the M8 motorway,
* M9 expressway on its section between Main Road 6 and Main Road 51,
* the Kaposvár loop section of M9 expressway (sign of Main Road 61),
* the following sections of the M0 expressway:
- the section between Main Road 1 and the M5 motorway,
- the section between M4 expressway (Main Road 4) and M3,
- Megyeri Bridge (the section between Main Road 11 and Main Road 2).

The purchase of a vignette can be made at the border, at petrol stations and customer agencies on some motorways (note the word Matrica). One can also buy the vignette forward all over the Internet (see above URL) or by telephone. When the license plate should be taken to ensure that the intermediate lines are not used in Dutch and behind the badge NL should also be placed (with a space between license plate and NL).

Traffic

Hungary has an extensive and well-developed road network. The country is an important link between Western and Central Europe to Southern and Eastern Europe.
The country has a very good highway system which is extended every year. All main roads lead to Budapest except 8. The highways are abbreviated with an M prefix, but called autópálya. Today, the first sections of highways were built out to begin or end in Budapest. A significant improvement was the construction of the bypass around Budapest, the M0. Bacause of this road traffic can travel easily around Budapest. The airport is not far from here. For a comprehensive list of motorways you can look at the following site (in German or English): Motorways and more .

The toll motorways should be paid (except in parts of large cities). See Toll .

Turul

The Turul is a mythological bird. It plays a role in the origin of the Hungarians and Hungary. The bird is probably a large falcon, the word comes from Turkish. It appears twice in the mythology. Once the Hungarians to move to depart from Russia to the current region, another time the Turul conceived Álmos and it is so the basis of the Hungarians.
There is a statue on the hill in Tatabánya (visible from the M1). It is argued that it is maybe the largest bird statue of Europe.