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Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:230V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:C, F,
TV Systems:
System:SECAM D/PAL / SECAM K/PAL
DVD-Region: 2
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Central Europe, northwest of Romania
Area:
total: 93,030 sq km
land: 92,340 sq km
water: 690 sq km
Climate:
temperate; cold, cloudy, humid winters; warm summers
Terrain:
mostly flat to rolling plains; hills and low mountains on the Slovakian border
Economy
GDP: $172.7 billion (2006 est.)
GDP growth rate: 3.8% (2006 est.)
GDP per capita: $17,300 (2006 est.)
Inflation rate: 3.7% (2006 est.)
Currency: forint (HUF)
Exchange rates:
forints per US dollar - 215.105 (2006), 199.58 (2005), 202.75 (2004), 224.31 (2003), 257.89 (2002)
People
Population: 9,981,334 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: -0.25% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Roman Catholic 51.9%, Calvinist 15.9%, Lutheran 3%, Greek Catholic 2.6%, other Christian 1%, other or unspecified 11.1%, unaffiliated 14.5% (2001 census)
Languages:
Hungarian 93.6%, other or unspecified 6.4% (2001 census)
Government
Capital:
name: Budapest
time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
Independence:
1001 (unification by King Stephen I)
Note: Information on Hungary was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Hungary, please visit one of the links below.
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