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Hungary
Hungary
Magyarország
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: 9,821,000 (2016E—UN); 9,874,784 (2016E—U.S. Census).
Major Urban Centers (2014E—UN): BUDAPEST (1,751,142), Debrecen (203,710), Szeged (162,257), Miskolc (160,410), Pécs (146,283), Györ (129,137).
Official Language: Hungarian.
Monetary Unit: Forint (official rate October 1, 2016: 274.35 forints = $1US).
President: János ÁDER; elected (as the candidate 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 May 2, 2012, sworn in for a five-year term on May 2 and assumed office on May 10, succeeding Pál SCHMITT (Federation of Young ...