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General overview

  • Population : 9.603 million inhabitants (-334,000 compared to the 2011 census)
  • Capital : Budapest
  • Largest cities : Budapest (1.685 million), Debrecen (200,000), Szeged (159,000), Miskolc (148,000), Pécs (139,000) et Győr (128,000).
  • Official language : Hungarian
  • Administration structure : 19 counties (vármegye) and the capital city, 197 districts (járás), 3155 municipalities (település) including 348 towns (város) including the capital and 25 towns with county rank (megyei jogú város).
  • Main religions: (out of the 60% of respondents who answered this question): Roman Catholics (47.9%), Reformed Protestants (16.4%), Lutheran Protestants (3.1%), Greek Catholics (2.3%), Orthodox (0.3%), other Protestants and Jehovah’s Witnesses (2.5%), Jews (0.1%), other religions (0.5%), no religion (26.9%).
  • National and ethnic minorities: (of the 86% of respondents who answered this question): Gypsies/Roma (2.5%), Germans (1.7%), Slovaks (0.4%), Romanians (0.3%), Ukrainians (0.3%), Croats (0.3%).

Source: results of the 2022 census published by the Central Bureau of Statistics, KSH.

D 10 October 2023    AJean de Saint Blanquat

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