Hungary

Hungary

AREA	93,030 sq km (35,919 sq miles).
POPULATION	10,135,400 (1998).
POPULATION DENSITY	108.9 per sq km.
CAPITAL	Budapest
CAPITAL POPULATION	1,861,383 (1998).
GEOGRAPHY	Hungary is situated in Central Europe, sharing borders to the north with the Slovak Republic, to the northeast with Ukraine, to the east with Romania, to the south with Croatia and Serbia and to the west with Austria and Slovenia. There are several ranges of hills, chiefly in the north and west. The Great Plain (Nagyalföld) stretches east from the Danube to the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the CIS, to the mountains of Transylvania in Romania, and south to the Fruska Gora range in Croatia. Lake Balaton is the largest unbroken stretch of inland water in Central Europe.
GOVERNMENT	Republic. Head of State: President Árpad Göncz since 1990. Head of Government: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán since 1998.
LANGUAGE	Hungarian (Magyar) is the official language. German and English are widely spoken. Some French is also spoken, mainly in western Hungary.
RELIGION	65% Roman Catholic, 20% Calvinist. Eastern Orthodox and Jewish minorities. There is no official national religion.
STANDARD TIME	GMT + 1 (GMT + 2 from last Sunday in March to Saturday before last Sunday in October).
ELECTRICITY	230 volts AC, 50Hz. European-style 2-pin plugs are used.

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