List of regions of Hungary

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There are seven statistical regions of Hungary created in 1999 by the Law 1999/XCII amending Law 1996/XXI. Regions are groupings of the 19 counties and the capital city.

Regions of Hungary
Name of the region	Regional centre	Area (km2)	Population 2016[1]	Density (/km2)
Northern Hungary (Észak-Magyaroszág)	Miskolc	13,428	1,153,714	86
Northern Great Plain (Észak-Alföld)	Debrecen	17,749	1,474,383	83
Southern Great Plain (Dél-Alföld)	Szeged	18,339	1,262,936	69
Central Hungary (Közép-Magyarország)	Budapest	6,919	2,993,948	433
Central Transdanubia (Közép-Dunántúl)	Székesfehérvár	11,237	1,060,703	94
Western Transdanubia (Nyugat-Dunántúl)	Győr	11,209	983,933	88
Southern Transdanubia (Dél-Dunántúl)	Pécs	14,169	900,868	64

• Northern Hungary includes the counties Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Heves and Nógrád.
• Northern Great Plain includes the counties Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg.
• Southern Great Plain includes the counties Bács-Kiskun, Békés and Csongrád-Csanád.
• Central Hungary includes the county of Pest and the capital Budapest.
• Central Transdanubia includes the counties Komárom-Esztergom, Fejér and Veszprém.
• Western Transdanubia includes the counties Győr-Moson-Sopron, Vas, Zala.
• Southern Transdanubia includes the counties Baranya, Somogy and Tolna.

Euroregions[]

Hungary belongs into the following euroregions:

• Carpathian Euroregion: Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Heves
• : Győr-Moson-Sopron, Vas, Zala
• Danube-Drava-Sava: Baranya
• Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisza (DKMT): Bács-Kiskun, Békés, Csongrád-Csanád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok
• : Komárom-Esztergom, Nógrád

(Counties sometimes only roughly correspond to euroregions, so overlap is possible.)

See also[]

• Counties of Hungary
• Districts of Hungary (from 2013)
  • Subregions of Hungary (until 2013)
• Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary (until 1918)
  • Counties of the Kingdom of Hungary
• Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary (1941–44)
• List of cities and towns of Hungary
• NUTS:HU
• Region (Europe)
• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

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