Hungary
Language → Hungarian
Population(around) → 9,620,025
Currency → Hungarian Forint (HUF) Ft
General weather Overview
Hungary is located in a temperate climate zone. In the northern hemisphere, the days in the
summer months are not only warmer but also longer. The climate is typically a continental one,
with hot, dry summers and mild, cold and snowy winters. The average temperatures in Hungary
are rather low in winter. Average daytime temperatures are just around or above freezing, and
night time temperatures average about five degrees below freezing.
Cities
Berlin / Capital – Hamburg – Munich – Cologne – Frankfurt
am Main – Stuttgart – Düsseldorf – Leipzig – Dortmund – Essen – Bremen – Dresden – Hannover – Nürnberg – Duisburg – Karlsruhe – Wiesbaden – Kiel – Magdeburg – Mainz – Erfurt – Saarbrücken
– Potsdam – Schwerin – Wiesbaden
Fun facts
- Budapest has the highest number of thermal springs in the world. 70 million liters of thermal water rise to the surface every day. These hot springs are good for health and have been used as medicinal baths for centuries
- Hungary is one of the landlocked countries in Central Europe. It borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania, Serbia, and Croatia to the southeast, Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west
- The Hungarian Parliament Building is considered the third-largest parliament building in the world and is the tallest building in the city of Budapest. The impressive Hungarian Parliament Building is also one of the oldest parliament buildings in Western and Eastern Europe
Some popular local foods
Gulyás, Halászlé, Csirke Paprikás, Hortobagyi Palacsinta, Töltött
Káposzta, Pörkölt, Meggyleves, Jókai Bableves, Lángos, Túrós Csusza, Dobos Torta, Meggyes
Rétes, Kurtos Kalacs
Some native animals:
Deer, Foxes, Hares, Squirrels, Wild boars, Wolves, Jackals, Lynxes,
Beavers, White storks
Couple of reasons to visit
- Experience their folk culture. Hungary has one of the richest folk traditions still alive in Europe!
- A varied offering of activities ranging from opera, hiking, markets, to the Budapest nightlife and tours of their various national landmarks
- Make the most of the therapeutically thermal waters. Hungary offers dozens of natural spring water sources
- Hungary offers exceptional design in a biological, ecological, and archaeological sense, for instance, their beautiful limestone rocks
