Baltic Travel Agent Specialists
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
Hungary lies in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe. The greatest distance from north to south is 268 km, and from east to west, 528 km.
Area:
93,030 km2
Population: 10,197,119 persons
Population density: 108 persons/km2. Sixty-three percent of the population
live in towns.
Capital: Budapest (territory: 525 km2; population: 1,775,203 persons)
Time zone: Central European (GMT+1)
Summer season: From the last weekend in March to the last weekend in
October + 1 hour
Official language: Hungarian
Type of Government: republic
Public administration: 19 Counties and Budapest
TOURIST REGIONS
Hungary
can be divided into 5 tourist regions:
1. Budapest and Budapest & Surroundings
2. Balaton
3. Puszta and Lake Tiszta
4. Pannonia (Transdanubia)
5. Eger-Tokaj Hilly Wine Region
CLIMATE
Hungary
has a temperate climate, similar to the rest of the continental zone.
January is the coldest month (-1 C average) and August the warmest (21,3
C average).
Coldest month: January
Hottest month: July
The number of sunny hours a year: 2038
Why
to go there: This is the country
- which boasts one of the world's most beautiful capital cities: Budapest,
the "Pearl of the Danube", whose wonderful panorama is on
UNESCO's World Heritage list,
-where, despite repeated historical disasters which devastated both
the people and their heritage, much remains of great value that is worth
visiting and getting to know,
- where 2000-year-old Roman ruins and 400-year-old Turkish monuments
can be found side-by-side, not to mention beautiful churches from the
Romanesque period in Ják, Lébényszentmiklós,
and Pannonhalma, or one-time stately castles in Eger, Sümeg, and
Siklós,
- where magnificent palaces functioning as hotels await tourists in
Szirák, Seregélyes, and Nagycenk, to mention only the
most famous,
- where Lake Balaton is located, Central Europe's largest lake, providing
a natural paradise for families with small children,
- where hundreds of therapeutic mineral springs gush up from the depths,
helping many thousands to recover their health,
- where the rich Hungarian folk art and the horse shows which introduce
the lifestyle and traditions of the "puszta" (Great Hungarian
Plain) attract tens of thousands.
And there's something else that keeps bringing visitors back to us -
the legendary Hungarian hospitality.
HUNGARY
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