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Hungary
Hungarian Republic
Magyar KÖztársaság
Political Status: Independent kingdom created in 1000; republic proclaimed in 1946; Communist People's Republic established August 20, 1949; pre-Communist name revived as one of a number of constitutional changes approved on October 18, 1989.
Area: 35,919 sq. mi. (93,030 sq. km.).
Population: 10,355,110 (2012E—UN); 9,958,453 (2012E—U.S. Census).
Major Urban Centers (2005E): BUDAPEST (1,700,000), Debrecen (209,000), Miskolc (189,000), Pécs (169,000), Szeged (162,000), Györ (131,000).
Official Language: Hungarian.
Monetary Unit: Forint (official rate October 3, 2011: 223.17 forints = $1US).
President: Pál SCHMITT; elected (as the candidate of the coalition of the Federation of Young Democrats-Hungarian Civic Alliance and the Christian Democratic People's Party) in first-round balloting by the National Assembly on June 29, 2010, and sworn in for a five-year term on August 6, succeeding László SÓLYOM (nonparty).
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