European Citizenship - Shaping a Transnational Identity
The Erasmus+ KA2 project | 2017 - 2020
Welcome to Hungary
Hungary is a country in Central Europe. Its territory is 93,030 square kilometres with about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a medium-sized member state of the European Union. Hungary joined the European Union in 2004 and has been part of the Schengen Area since 2007.
The official language is Hungarian. The capital and largest city is Budapest; other major urban areas include , Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs and Győr.
It is one of the most popular tourist destination in Europe, attracting plenty of international tourists, owing to attractions such as the largest thermal water cave system in the world, second largest thermal lake, the largest lake in Central Europe and the largest natural grasslands in Europe.
Hungary’s rich cultural history includes significant contributions to the arts, music, literature, sports, science and technology.
Hungary's geography has traditionally been defined by the Danube and Tisza rivers. The common tripartite division of the country into three sections—Dunántúl ("beyond the Danube", Transdanubia), Tiszántúl ("beyond the Tisza"), and Duna-Tisza köze ("between the Danube and Tisza")—is a reflection of this.
On 23 October 1989, Hungary became a democratic parliamentary republic. The Hungarian political system operates under a framework reformed in 2012; this constitutional document is the Fundamental Law of Hungary. 199 Members of Parliament are elected to the highest organ of state authority, the National Assembly, every four years in a single-round first-past-the-post election with an election threshold of 5%. The President of the Republic serves as the head of stateand is elected by the National Assembly every five years.
