Information about HungaryHungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of OECD, NATO, EU, Visegrád Group and is a Schengen state. The official language is Hungarian, which, according to some, is part of the Finno-Ugric family, while other theories relate it to Central Asian or Middle Eastern languages. It is one of the four official languages of the European Union that is not of Indo-European origin
Hungary was one of the 15 most popular tourist destinations in the world in the past decade,with a capital regarded as one of the most beautiful in the world. The country is home to the second largest thermal lake in the world (Lake Hévíz), the largest lake in Central Europe (Lake Balaton), and the largest natural grassland in Europe (Hortobágy).
Major cities include Budapest, Debrecen, Miskolc, Szeged, Pécs, Gyor, Nyíregyháza, Székesfehérvár, Kecskemét, Szombathely, Szolnok, Tatabánya, Veszprém, Kaposvár, Zalaegerszeg, Békéscsaba, Eger, Dunaújváros, Nagykanizsa and Sopron
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