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Central Hungary

Central Hungary
Közép-Magyarország
Region
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Country  Hungary
Capital city Budapest
Area
 • Total 6,919 km2 (2,671 sq mi)
Population
 • Total 2,897,317
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
NUTS code HU1, HU10
 -Nominal GDP Total(2014) EUR 50 billion
 -Nominal GDP Per capita(2014) EUR 17,000([1])

Central Hungary (Hungarian: Közép-Magyarország) is one of the seven statistical regions in Hungary (NUTS 1 and NUTS 2). It includes Budapest (the capital of the region) and Pest County.

Central Hungary’s subregions (population figures from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office as of 2009)

Central Hungary is part of the Budapest Central Transdanubia Tourist Region.

In 1987 a World Heritage Site was declared which includes Buda Castle, the Danube Riverbank, the Andrássy Avenue and its historic surroundings, the Millennium Underground Railway and Heroes' Square.

Other important landmarks in Buda are the Gellért Hill and the tomb of Gül Baba and Rudas Baths built during the Ottoman rule of Hungary, ruins of Old Buda, the Coliseum in Nagyszombat Street and the ruins of Aquincum. In the Buda Hills are the Chairlift, the Children's railway and caves with stalagmites and stalactites.

The most important landmarks in Pest are the Hungarian Parliament Building, the St. Stephen's Basilica, the Inner City Parish Church, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Vigadó Concert Hall, the Hungarian National Museum, the New York Palace on the Small Boulevard, the Dohány Street Synagogue, the Grand Boulevard, and the Museum of Applied Arts.


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