Country information
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%).
10 October 2023Source: results of the 2022 census published by the Central Bureau of Statistics, KSH.