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Updates: 

Newsletter II-12, an update to the ISO 3166-2 standard, says that Hungary has dropped "Republic" from its formal or long-form name.

Newsletter II-2 to ISO 3166-2 was dated 2010-06-30. FIPS PUB 10-4 Change Notice 13 was issued on 2008-02-04. They both assigned new codes for Érd urban county, which was formed in 2006.

FIPS 10-4 Change Notice 12, dated 2007-06-11, has FIPS codes for the urban counties created in 1995.

The Hungarian Central Statistical Office  site contains areas and populations for the counties and urban counties from the 2001 census, and the population history for counties back to 1870.

New NUTS codes for Hungary were issued on 2004-09-15.

Country overview: 

Short name	HUNGARY
ISO code	HU
FIPS code	HU
Language	Hungarian (hu)
Time zone	+1 ~
Capital	Budapest

 

In 1900, Hungary was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A much smaller, independent Hungary, almost equivalent to the present-day country, emerged from the peace negotiations at the end of World War I. Hungary reconquered some of its old ground as World War II began, but its defeat cancelled all its gains.

At different times, Hungary has had varying numbers of urban counties. These are administrative divisions that appear geographically to be cities, but that are treated administratively as counties. Budapest has been of this type for the whole of the twentieth century. Others have come and gone. In 1921, there were thirty-five ordinary counties and twelve urban counties. In 1950, a territorial reform eliminated all of the urban counties. In 1954, four of them were created; in 1971, they were all abolished again. There were five of them in 1991. An additional 15 were created by 1993, and two more (making 22 in all) by 1996. In reference works, the urban counties are sometimes ignored, or treated as if they were part of the surrounding ordinary county.

Other names of country: 

1. Danish: Ungarn
2. Dutch: Hongarije, Republiek Hongarije (formal)
3. English: Hungarian Republic (formal)
4. Finnish: Unkari
5. French: Hongrie f
6. German: Ungarn n
7. Hungarian: Magyarország, Magyar Köztársaság (formal)
8. Icelandic: Ungverjaland
9. Italian: Ungheria f
10. Norwegian: Ungarn, Republikken Ungarn (formal)
11. Portuguese: Hungria, República f da Hungria f (formal)
12. Russian: Венгерская Республика (formal), Венгрия
13. Spanish: Hungría, República f de Hungría f (formal)
14. Swedish: Ungern
15. Turkish: Macaristan Cumhuriyeti (formal)

Origin of name: 

from Turkish Onogur: ten tribes, referring to tribes which later settled in Hungary

Primary subdivisions: 

Hungary is divided into nineteen megyék (sing. megye; counties), one föváros (capital city), and 23 megyei jogu város (urban counties, county boroughs, cities of county right).

Division	HASC	ISO	FIPS	NUTS	Typ	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	Capital or county
Bács-Kiskun	HU.BK	BK	HU01	HU331	m	438,768	8,124	3,137	Kecskemét
Baranya	HU.BA	BA	HU02	HU231	m	244,950	4,267	1,647	Pécs
Békés	HU.BE	BE	HU03	HU332	m	329,823	5,437	2,099	Békéscsaba
Békéscsaba	HU.BC	BC	HU26	HU332	v	67,968	194	75	(Békés)
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén	HU.BZ	BZ	HU04	HU311	m	560,279	7,010	2,707	Miskolc
Budapest	HU.BU	BU	HU05	HU101	f	1,777,921	525	203	Budapest
Csongrád	HU.CS	CS	HU06	HU333	m	215,689	3,499	1,351	Szeged
Debrecen	HU.DE	DE	HU07	HU321	v	211,034	461	178	(Hajdú-Bihar)
Dunaújváros	HU.DU	DU	HU27	HU211	v	55,309	53	20	(Fejér)
Eger	HU.EG	EG	HU28	HU312	v	58,331	105	40	(Heves)
Érd	HU.ED	ER	HU43	HU102	v	56,567	61	23	(Pest)
Fejér	HU.FE	FE	HU08	HU211	m	272,662	4,135	1,597	Székesfehérvár
Győr	HU.GY	GY	HU25	HU221	v	129,412	175	67	(Győr-Moson-Sopron)
Győr-Moson-Sopron	HU.GS	GS	HU09	HU221	m	249,119	3,745	1,446	Győr
Hajdú-Bihar	HU.HB	HB	HU10	HU321	m	341,964	5,749	2,220	Debrecen
Heves	HU.HE	HE	HU11	HU312	m	267,396	3,533	1,364	Eger
Hódmezővásárhely	HU.HV	HV	HU29	HU333	v	49,382	483	187	(Csongrád)
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok	HU.JN	JN	HU20	HU322	m	338,286	5,394	2,083	Szolnok
Kaposvár	HU.KV	KV	HU30	HU232	v	68,697	114	44	(Somogy)
Kecskemét	HU.KM	KM	HU31	HU331	v	107,749	321	124	(Bács-Kiskun)
Komárom-Esztergom	HU.KE	KE	HU12	HU212	m	244,120	2,174	839	Tatabánya
Miskolc	HU.MI	MI	HU13	HU311	v	184,125	237	91	(Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén)
Nagykanizsa	HU.NK	NK	HU32	HU223	v	52,106	148	57	(Zala)
Nógrád	HU.NO	NO	HU14	HU313	m	175,297	2,441	943	Salgótarján
Nyíregyháza	HU.NY	NY	HU33	HU323	v	118,795	274	106	(Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg)
Pécs	HU.PS	PS	HU15	HU231	v	162,498	163	63	(Baranya)
Pest	HU.PT	PE	HU16	HU102	m	1,027,310	6,333	2,446	Budapest
Salgótarján	HU.ST	ST	HU41	HU313	v	44,964	103	40	(Nógrád)
Somogy	HU.SO	SO	HU17	HU232	m	266,540	5,922	2,287	Kaposvár
Sopron	HU.SN	SN	HU34	HU221	v	56,175	169	65	(Győr-Moson-Sopron)
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg	HU.SZ	SZ	HU18	HU323	m	463,461	5,661	2,186	Nyíregyháza
Szeged	HU.SD	SD	HU19	HU333	v	168,273	281	108	(Csongrád)
Székesfehérvár	HU.SF	SF	HU35	HU211	v	106,346	171	66	(Fejér)
Szekszárd	HU.SS	SS	HU42	HU233	v	36,229	96	37	(Tolna)
Szolnok	HU.SK	SK	HU36	HU322	v	77,631	187	72	(Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok)
Szombathely	HU.SH	SH	HU37	HU222	v	81,920	98	38	(Vas)
Tatabánya	HU.TB	TB	HU38	HU212	v	72,470	91	35	(Komárom-Esztergom)
Tolna	HU.TO	TO	HU21	HU233	m	213,454	3,607	1,393	Szekszárd
Vas	HU.VA	VA	HU22	HU222	m	186,203	3,239	1,250	Szombathely
Veszprém	HU.VE	VE	HU23	HU213	m	310,943	4,486	1,732	Veszprém
Veszprém	HU.VM	VM	HU39	HU213	v	62,851	127	49	(Veszprém)
Zala	HU.ZA	ZA	HU24	HU223	m	183,644	3,536	1,365	Zalaegerszeg
Zalaegerszeg	HU.ZE	ZE	HU40	HU223	v	61,654	100	39	(Zala)
43 divisions						10,198,315	93,029	35,919
HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. ISO: Codes from ISO 3166-2. FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4. NUTS: Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics. Typ: m = county, f = capital city, v = urban county Population: 2001-02-01 census Capital or county: Names in parentheses are the counties in which these cities were located before being made into county boroughs Post codes: Hungarian postal codes are four digits. Postal codes for Hungarian addresses can be identified by prefixing them with "H-".

Further subdivisions:

Until 1984, the top-level divisions of Hungary were counties and urban counties; the second-level divisions were jaras (districts); below these were közseg (councils, villages). The number of each type of division varied in successive reforms. On 1984-01-01, the districts were done away with, replaced by 105 town-regions and 34 large villages with town rank.

The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics is a set of hierarchical region codes administered by Eurostat. Now that Hungary has joined the European Union, codes are being assigned to it. Hungary has three divisions at the NUTS-1 level, called Statisztikai nagyrégiók; seven divisions at the NUTS-2 level, called Tervezési-statisztikai régiók; and twenty divisions at the NUTS-3 level, which are the counties and capital city. If the last digit or last two digits of a county's NUTS-3 code are removed, the result is the NUTS-2 or NUTS-1 code for the statistical region which contains that county. The regions at these NUTS levels are shown in the following tables.

NUTS	Statistical region
HU1	Közép-Magyarország
HU2	Dunántúl
HU3	Alföld és Észak

 

NUTS	Statistical region	Hungarian
HU10	Central Hungary	Közép-Magyarország
HU21	Central Transdanubia	Közép-Dunántúl
HU22	Western Transdanubia	Nyugat-Dunántúl
HU23	Southern Transdanubia	Dél-Dunántúl
HU31	Northern Hungary	Észak-Magyarország
HU32	Northern Great Plain	Észak-Alföld
HU33	Southern Great Plain	Dél-Alföld

Territorial extent: 

In 1990, Budapest capital city was an enclave entirely surrounded by Pest county. Likewise, the urban counties of Debrecen, Pécs, and Szeged were enclaves within their respective counties. The creation of new urban counties since then may have changed this state of affairs.

Origins of names: 

1. Budapest: the cities Buda and Pest were united in 1872.
2. Győr: after Jewr, a man's name
3. Hódmezővásárhely: Hungarian hód: beaver, mező: field, vásár: fair, hely: place
4. Transylvania: Latin trans: beyond, silva: forest (i.e. the land beyond the forest, although earlier called simply Erdély, Hungarian for forested land)

Change history: 

Before World War I, the Kingdom of Hungary was one of the major divisions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Kingdom of Hungary consisted of Hungary proper, the province of Croatia and Slavonia, and the tiny province of Fiume (Rijeka). The eastern part of Hungary, now in Romania, was called Transylvania. Hungary was subdivided into 64 comitate (counties):

County	Capital	Modern
Abauj-Torna	Kassa (Kaschau, Košice SK)	SK,HU
Also-Feher (Unter-Weissenburg)	Nagy-Enyed (Strassburg, Aiud RO)	RO+
Árad	Árad RO	RO
Árva	Kubin (Dolný Kubín SK)	SK
Bács-Bodrog	Zombor (Sombor YU)	YU,HU
Baranya	Pécs HU (Fünfkirchen)	HU,HR
Bars	Aranyos-Marot (Zlaté Marovce SK)	SK
Bekes	Gyula HU	HU
Bereg	Beregszász (Beregove UA)	UA,HU
Besztercze Naszod (Bistritz)	Besztercze (Bistritz, Bistriţa RO)	RO+
Bihar	Nagy-Várad (Großwardein, Oradea RO)	RO,HU
Borsod	Miskolc HU	HU
Brasso (Kronstadt)	Brasso (Kronstadt, Braşov RO)	RO+
Budapest	Budapest HU	HU
Csanád	Makó HU	HU
Csik	Csik Szereda (Miercurea-Ciuc RO)	RO+
Csongrád	Szegedin (Szeged HU)	HU,YU
Esztergom (Gran)	Esztergom HU (Gran)	HU
Fogaras	Fogaras (Făgăras RO)	RO+
Gömör	Rima Szombath (Rimavská Sobota SK)	SK,HU
Györ (Raab)	Györ HU (Raab)	HU,SK
Hajdu (Hajduken)	Debrecen HU	HU
Háromszék	Sepsi-Szent-Győrgy (Sfîntu Gheorghe RO)	RO+
Heves	Eger HU (Erlau)	HU
Hont	Ipolyság (Šahy SK)	SK,HU
Hunyad	Deva RO	RO+
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok	Szolnok HU	HU
Kis-Küküllö	Elisabethstadt (Dumbrăveni RO)	RO+
Kolozsvár (Klausenburg)	Kolozsvár (Klausenburg, Cluj-Napoca RO)	RO+
Komárom (Komorn)	Komárom (Komorn, Komarno SK)	HU,SK
Krasso-Szörény	Lugos (Lugoj RO)	RO
Lipto (Liptau)	Lipto-Szent-Miklos (Liptau, Liptov Mikuláš SK)	SK
Máramaros (Mármaros)	Máramaros-Sziget (Sighetu Marmaţiei RO)	UA,RO
Maros-Torda	Maros-Vásárhely (Neumarkt am Maros, Tîrgu Mures RO)	RO+
Mozsony (Wieselburg)	Ungarisch-Altenburg (Mosonmagyaróvar HU)	HU,AT,SK
Nagy-Küküllö	Segesvár (Schäßburg, Sighisoara RO)	RO+
Nógrád (Neograd)	Balassagyarmat HU	SK,HU
Nyitra (Neutra)	Nyitra (Neutra, Nitra SK)	SK
Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun	Budapest HU	HU
Pozsony (Preßburg)	Pozsony (Preßburg, Bratislava SI)	SK
Saros	Eperies (Preschau, Prešov SK)	SK
Somogy	Kaposvar HU	HU
Sopron (Ödenburg)	Sopron HU (Ödenburg)	HU,AT
Szabolcs	Nyíregyháza HU	HU
Szatmar	Nagy-Károly (Carei RO)	RO,HU
Szeben (Hermannstadt)	Nagy-Szeben (Hermannstadt, Sibiu RO)	RO+
Székes-Fejervár (Stuhlweißenburg)	Székes-Fejervár (Stuhlweißenburg, Székesfehérvar HU)	HU
Szepes (Zips)	Leutschau (Locse, Levoča SK)	SK
Szilágy	Zilah (Zalău RO)	RO
Szolnok-Doboka	Des (Dej RO)	RO+
Temes	Temesvar (Timişoara RO)	RO,YU
Tolna (Tolnau)	Szegszárd (Szekszard HU)	HU
Torda-Aranyos	Torda (Thörenburg, Turda RO)	RO+
Torontál	Nagy-Becskerek (Zrenjanin YU)	YU,RO,HU
Trencsen	Trencsen (Trenschin, Trenčin SK)	SK
Turocz (Turoz)	Turócz-Szent-Marton (Turoz-Sankt-Martin, Martin SK)	SK
Udvarhely	Szent Egyhazas-Olahfalu (Odorheiu Secuiesc RO)	RO+
Ugocsa	Nagy-Szöllös (Vynogradiv UA)	UA,RO
Ung	Ungvár (Uzhgorod UA)	UA,SK
Vasvár (Eisenburg)	Szombathely HU (Steinamanger)	HU,AT,SI
Veszprém	Veszprém HU	HU
Zala	Zala-Egerszeg HU	HU,HR
Zemplen	Sátoraljaúhely HU	SK,HU
Zólyom (Sohl)	Besztercze-Banya (Neusohl, Banská Bystrica SK)	SK
County: county name in Hungarian, followed by German equivalent in parentheses, if any. Capital: county town in Hungarian, followed by German equivalent and modern vernacular name, if different. The modern name is always immediately followed by the ISO code for the country in which the county town now lies. Modern: ISO codes for the countries which now occupy part or all of the county territory, listed in descending order of share. AT=Austria, HR=Croatia, HU=Hungary, RO=Romania, SI=Slovenia, SK=Slovakia, UA=Ukraine, YU=Yugoslavia. The + sign indicates counties in Transylvania.

1. 1920-06-04: The Treaty of Trianon reduced Hungary to approximately its present area. No change was made to the counties. Many of them were now divided between two or more countries by the newly drawn borders.
2. 1923: Hungary reorganized into 25 counties. Their relationship to the pre-war counties listed above is as follows. Cities shown in parentheses are capitals of the new counties, where they differ from the pre-war capitals. Bekes, Budapest, Hajdu, Heves, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Somogy, Szabolcs, Tolna, and Veszprém were essentially unchanged. Székes-Fejervár was renamed Fejér, but otherwise unchanged. Bács-Bodrog (Baja), Baranya, Bihar (Berettyóújfalu), Csongrád, Sopron, Zala, and Zemplen lost fragments of their territory, but were otherwise unchanged. Two counties lost part of their territory and part of their names: Abauj-Torna was renamed Abaúj (Szikszó), and Vasvár was renamed Vas. Finally, a number of county fragments merged with their neighbors. Borsod merged with the part of Gömör that remained in Hungary to form Borsod-Gömör (Miskolc); Csanád merged with part of Torontál to form Csanád (Makó); parts of Györ and Mozsony merged to form Győr-Moson (Győr); parts of Komárom and Esztergom merged to form Komárom-Esztergom (Esztergom); parts of Nógrád and Hont merged to form Nógrád-Hont (Balassagyarmat); and parts of Szatmar and Bereg merged to form Szatmár-Bereg (Mátészalka).
3. 1938-11-02: Strip of territory in southern Slovakia transferred to Hungary.
4. 1939-03-23: Carpatho-Ukraine (also known as Ruthenia) annexed by Hungary.
5. ~1940: Hungary annexed about 20% of Rumania.
6. 1945-01-20: Borders of Hungary as of 1938-01-01 restored by armistice agreement.
7. 1947-02-10: Small (61 sq. km.) area west of the Danube near Bratislava transferred to Czechoslovakia.
8. 1950: Under the new Constitution of 1949 and the Council Act of 1950, Hungary reorganized from 25 counties and one capital city to 19 counties and one capital city, thus: Budapest enlarged by annexation of surrounding suburbs in Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun county; Bács-Kiskun county formed from southern half of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun and all of Bács-Bodrog; Békés county formed from almost all of old Békés county plus fragments of Bihar, Csongrád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and eastern half of Csanád; Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county formed from Borsod-Gömör, Abaúj, and Zemplén; western half of Csanád county annexed to Csongrád; Győr-Sopron county formed by merging Győr-Moson with Sopron; Hajdú-Bihar county formed by merging Bihar and Hajdú; Komárom-Esztergom county renamed to Komárom; Nógrád county formed from Nógrád-Hont by removing a strip of land on the west and annexing a strip from Heves on the east; Pest county formed from northern half of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun plus a fragment of Nógrád-Hont; name of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county changed to Szolnok; Szabolcs-Szatmár county formed by merging Szabolcs and Szatmár-Bereg, minus a fragment which was annexed by Hajdú-Bihar; a sizable chunk of Zala county transferred to Vesprém; along with many minor border adjustments.
9. 1954: The urban counties of Debrecen, Miskolc, Pécs, and Szeged created (by splitting them from their former counties, resp. Hajdú-Bihar, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Baranya, and Csongrád).
10. 1971: The four urban counties merged with the ordinary counties surrounding them.
11. ~1975: Five urban counties created: the same four as in 1954, plus Győr.
12. 1990: Győr-Sopron county renamed to Győr-Moson-Sopron; Komárom county renamed to Komárom-Esztergom; Szabolcs-Szatmár county renamed to Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg; Szolnok county renamed to Jász-Nagykún-Szolnok.
13. ~1992: Fifteen more urban counties created.
14. ~1995: Two more urban counties, Salgótarján and Szekszárd, created.
15. 2004-05-01: Hungary joined the European Union.
16. 2006-07-11: Érd urban county split from Pest county. Before the split, the HASC code for Pest was HU.PE. Its 2001 population was 1,083,877, and its area was 6,394 km².

Other names of subdivisions: 

1. Budapest: Boedapest (Dutch); Budapeste (Portuguese); Будапешт (Russian)
2. Bács-Kiskun: Bács-Bodrog-Kiskun (variant)
3. Győr-Moson-Sopron: Győr-Sopron (obsolete)
4. Jász-Nagykún-Szolnok: Szolnok (obsolete)
5. Komárom-Esztergom: Komárom (obsolete)
6. Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg: Szabolcs-Szatmár (obsolete)
7. Transylvania: Siebenbürgen (German); Transilvania (Italian); Transylvanie (French)

Population history:

County	1870	1880	1890	1900	1910	1920	1930	1941	1949-01-01	1960-01-01	1970-01-01	1980-01-01	1990-01-01	2001-02-01
Bács-Kiskun	324,625	346,863	393,205	435,363	485,919	500,638	544,201	575,215	591,482	589,744	570,064	571,448	546,898	546,517
Baranya	265,069	273,615	299,901	313,174	328,902	313,469	337,698	353,426	356,533	395,342	421,765	432,617	417,400	407,448
Békés	284,589	310,266	356,665	389,095	417,127	436,348	465,557	477,240	471,561	467,861	438,971	436,910	411,887	397,791
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén	382,264	373,830	408,174	469,681	513,193	535,588	585,154	633,105	630,621	725,303	776,750	809,468	761,963	744,404
Budapest	302,086	402,706	560,079	861,434	1,110,453	1,232,026	1,442,869	1,712,791	1,590,316	1,804,606	2,001,083	2,059,226	2,016,681	1,777,921
Csongrád	269,803	286,636	327,273	363,821	395,361	407,831	426,374	434,749	429,083	434,046	445,220	456,300	438,842	433,344
Fejér	205,320	218,719	231,548	245,510	259,558	271,682	280,707	295,683	295,750	357,897	391,272	420,317	418,852	434,317
Győr-Moson-Sopron	258,345	274,686	289,308	315,431	330,643	350,040	366,608	383,764	369,336	396,401	409,609	433,551	428,153	434,706
Hajdú-Bihar	281,350	289,311	322,286	364,908	406,290	426,465	467,257	496,009	498,271	522,787	524,952	551,448	548,728	552,998
Heves	205,146	203,338	227,156	249,354	275,181	292,290	312,085	319,043	316,273	347,856	340,146	350,360	334,408	325,727
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok	276,760	298,655	341,335	375,134	399,153	413,593	440,808	453,038	449,551	461,307	437,879	445,624	425,583	415,917
Komárom-Esztergom	115,684	124,203	132,589	151,155	167,310	179,565	192,253	212,928	220,914	270,810	304,461	322,893	316,984	316,590
Nógrád	125,522	123,261	141,314	159,266	174,155	185,217	200,438	211,253	214,757	235,675	234,430	240,251	227,137	220,261
Pest	330,089	353,851	395,142	450,136	524,320	571,753	633,257	682,696	686,953	781,505	878,644	973,830	949,842	1,083,877
Somogy	254,060	272,620	290,063	306,337	327,115	331,993	347,942	354,125	361,213	368,183	357,009	360,270	344,708	335,237
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg	299,441	288,327	329,131	384,060	418,482	435,119	502,136	546,639	558,098	586,451	565,557	593,829	572,301	582,256
Tolna	224,918	239,231	257,380	258,748	273,218	268,954	272,641	276,569	275,644	272,101	258,760	266,273	253,675	249,683
Vas	179,738	198,533	216,087	240,362	260,427	275,537	281,848	286,381	283,070	282,728	277,619	285,498	275,944	268,123
Veszprém	234,342	241,517	253,729	260,173	269,694	271,936	283,927	306,693	299,940	343,296	362,678	382,052	378,439	373,794
Zala	192,159	209,023	236,986	261,273	275,613	286,831	301,349	304,727	305,433	317,145	304,127	317,298	306,398	297,404
Totals	5,011,310	5,329,191	6,009,351	6,854,415	7,612,114	7,986,875	8,685,109	9,316,074	9,204,799	9,961,044	10,300,996	10,709,463	10,374,823	10,198,315

 

Notes: Figures are proleptic to present-day borders of counties. Data from 1870 to 1960 are described as "present population"; from 1970 on, they are "resident population". Populations of urban counties are combined with the counties they are contained in.