Climate

Hungary has a Continental climate,with hot summers with low overall humidity levels but frequent rainshowers and frigid to cold snowy winters. Average annual temperature is 9.7 °C (49.5 °F). Temperature extremes are about 42 °C (110 °F) in the summer and −29 °C (−20 °F) in the winter. Average temperature in the summer is 27 to 35 °C (81 to 95 °F), and [...]

The People’s Republic of Hungary

The People’s Republic of Hungary or Hungarian People’s Republic (Magyar Népköztársaság) was the official state name of Hungary from 1949 to 1989 during its Communist period under the guidance of the Soviet Union. It was in this communist regime that the first major opposition movement to the Eastern Bloc communism was formed during the Hungarian [...]

Folk Dance

Ugrós (Jumping dances): Old style dances dating back to the Middle Ages. Solo or couple dances accompanied by old style music, shepherd and other solo man’s dances from Transylvania, and marching dances along with remnants of medieval weapon dances belong in this group. Karikázó: a circle dance performed by women only accompanied by singing [...]

Agriculture

Highly developed agriculture, Hungary in Europe have the highest percentage of arable land was almost 50% meadows and pastures 12.5%, 2.5% orchards. Agriculture is characterized by a high level of mechanization and chemizacji. Grown wheat, maize, barley, sugar beet, sunflower, potatoes, forage crops, hemp and tobacco. Developed vegetables (peppers, tomatoes, onions) and fruit (apricots, peaches, [...]

Geography

Hungary often associate with the country fairly uniform, flat and monotonnym in terms of surface shape. In fact, only the landscape looks like the lowlands of Hungary, also called Panońską, which covers the greater part of the country but not the whole country.
It is a huge valley surrounded by mountains band lying outside the country: [...]

Regions

Hungary today is divided administratively into 19 counties and the capital Budapest.
Tourist classification:
* Great Plain (Great Plains)
* Dunántúl (Transdanubia)
* Balaton (Lake)
* Northern Hungary (wine region of Eger, Tokaj, mountains)
* Central Hungary (Budapest and environs)

Bács-Kiskun

Bács-Kiskun is a county located in southern Hungary. It was created as a result of World War II, merging the pre war Bács-Bodrog and Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun counties. With an area of 8,445 km², Bács-Kiskun is the largest county in the country. The terrain is mostly flat with slight emergences around Baja. The county seat and largest [...]

Sopron

At the foot of the Lővér Hills and just kilometres from Lake Fertő, Fertő-Hanság National Park and Austria, Sopron (German: Ödenburg) is one of the most charming medieval cities in Hungary. With its preponderance of Gothic and early baroque architecture, Sopron is the closest city Hungary has to Prague (though admittedly on a much smaller [...]

When to Go

Though it can be pretty wet in May and June, spring is just glorious in Hungary. The Hungarian summer is warm, sunny and unusually long, but the resorts are very crowded in late July and August. Like Paris and Rome, Budapest comes to a halt in August (called ‘the cucumber-growing season’ here because that’s about [...]

Budapest

Budapest (pronounced /ˈbu:dʌˌpɛʃt/ (AE), also /ˈbju:-/ (BE) or /ˈbʊ-/; Hungarian IPA: ['budɒpɛʃt]) is the capital. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country’s principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial and transportation centre.[1] In 2007 Budapest had 1,696,128 inhabitants[2] with an official agglomeration of 2,451,418 [2], down from a mid-1980s peak of 2.1 million. [...]