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There are eight statistical regions of Hungary , These regions consist of the 19 Counties of Hungary and the capital city. There were seven regions created in 1999 by the Law 1999/XCII amending Law 1996/XXI but since 2018 the capital Budapest has left the Central Hungary region and become it's own region.
Name of the region | Regional centre | Area (km2) [1] | Population [2] | Density (/km2) |
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Northern Hungary (Észak-Magyaroszág) | Miskolc | 13,426 | 1,102,064 | 82 |
Northern Great Plain (Észak-Alföld) | Debrecen | 17,723 | 1,423,751 | 80 |
Southern Great Plain (Dél-Alföld) | Szeged | 18,336 | 1,213,595 | 66 |
Budapest (Budapest) | [n.a.] | 510 | 1,706,851 | 3,347 |
Central Hungary (Közép-Magyarország) | Budapest | 6,281 | 1,325,036 | 211 |
Central Transdanubia (Közép-Dunántúl) | Székesfehérvár | 11,329 | 1,060,703 | 94 |
Western Transdanubia (Nyugat-Dunántúl) | Győr | 11,086 | 983,933 | 89 |
Southern Transdanubia (Dél-Dunántúl) | Pécs | 14,197 | 900,868 | 63 |
Hungary belongs into the following euroregions:
(Counties sometimes only roughly correspond to euroregions, so overlap is possible.)
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