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Capital of Hungary
Budapest, formed in 1873 from Buda, Obuda and Pest.
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Currency of Hungary
The forint (HUF).
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Hungarian flag
A horizontal tricolour: red, white and green from the top.
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Seven neighbours of Hungary
Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.
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Hungarian parliament
The National Assembly (Orszaggyules), a single chamber with 199 members.
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Head of state
The president, elected by the National Assembly for five years.
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Joined NATO
1999.
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Joined the European Union
2004.
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Joined the Schengen area
2007.
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National holidays
15 March (1848), 20 August (St Stephen's Day) and 23 October (1956 and 1989).
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Largest lake in Central Europe
Lake Balaton.
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Longest river in Hungary
The Danube, which flows through Budapest; the Tisza is the second.
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Highest mountain
Kekes, in the Matra range, at 1,014 metres.
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Great Hungarian Plain
The Alfold in the east, with the Hortobagy puszta, a UNESCO site since 1999.
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Tokaj
Wine region in the north-east, famous for sweet Aszu wines, on the UNESCO list.
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Aggtelek Karst
Caves on the border with Slovakia, a shared UNESCO site.
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Second largest city
Debrecen, in the east.
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First king
Stephen I, crowned around the year 1000.
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Matthias Corvinus
King from 1458 to 1490; known for his Black Army and his library.
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Lajos Kossuth
Leader of the revolution of 1848-1849 and governor-president.
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Imre Nagy
Prime minister of the 1956 revolution; executed in 1958; reburied in 1989.
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Ferenc Liszt
Pianist and composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies; helped to found the Academy of Music.
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Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly
Composers who collected folk songs; Kodaly also created a music teaching method.
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Erno Rubik
Inventor of the Rubik's Cube in 1974.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Nobel Prize in 1937 for work on vitamin C, at Szeged.
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Ignac Semmelweis
Doctor who showed that handwashing stops childbed fever.
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Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for holography.
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Katalin Kariko
Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2023 for work on mRNA vaccines.
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Goulash
A paprika-flavoured soup or stew first cooked by herdsmen.

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