Counties of Hungary

First-level administrative divisions of Hungary

Counties of Hungary
Magyarország vármegyéi (Hungarian)

Category| Unitary state
Location| Hungary
Created|

* 1950 (current form, 19 + Budapest)

Number| 19 (as of 1950)
Additional status|

* Electoral constituency

Populations| 189,304 (Nógrád) – 1,278,874 (Pest)
Areas| 2,265 km2 (875 sq mi) (Komárom-Esztergom) – 8,445 km2 (3,261 sq mi) (Bács-Kiskun)
Government|

* County Government, National Government

Subdivisions|

* District
* Municipality/town/commune/sector

Hungary is subdivided administratively into 19 counties (vármegyék, singular: vármegye) and the capital city (főváros) Budapest. The counties are further subdivided into 174 districts (járások, singular: járás). The capital Budapest is subdivided into 23 districts (kerületek, singular: kerület).[1]

There are 25 cities with county rights (megyei jogú városok, singular: megyei jogú város), sometimes called urban counties. The local authorities of these towns have extended powers but they are not independent territorial units.

The current system of counties has evolved from medieval fiefdoms of the Kingdom of Hungary; each fiefdom was ruled from a castle (Hungarian: vár). Between 1950 and 2022, the counties of Hungary were officially called megyék (singular: megye). On 1 January 2023, the original historical name vármegye was officially restored.

## List of counties

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Hungarian counties with the 174 districts (járások) and the 23 districts of Budapest (kerületek). Hungarian counties[1] County  | Coat of
arms  | County seat | Region  | Area
(km²)[1] | Population
(2019)[1] | Population density
(people/km², 2019)  | Map  | No. of
district | No. of
municipalities

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Baranya |  | Pécs | Southern Transdanubia | 4429.60  | 360,704  | 81  |  | 10  | 301
Bács-Kiskun |  | Kecskemét | Southern Great Plain | 8444.89  | 503,825  | 60  |  | 11  | 119
Békés |  | Békéscsaba | Southern Great Plain | 5629.71  | 334,264  | 59  |  | 9  | 75
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén |  | Miskolc | Northern Hungary | 7247.19  | 642,447  | 89  |  | 16  | 358
Budapest |  | Municipality of
Budapest
[note 1] | Central Hungary | 525.14  | 1,752,286  | 3337  |  | 23 | –
Csongrád-Csanád |  | Szeged | Southern Great Plain | 4262.79  | 399,012  | 94  |  | 7  | 60
Fejér |  | Székesfehérvár | Central Transdanubia | 4358.48  | 417,712  | 96  |  | 8  | 108
Győr-Moson-Sopron |  | Győr | Western Transdanubia | 4207.79  | 467,144  | 111  |  | 7  | 183
Hajdú-Bihar |  | Debrecen | Northern Great Plain | 6210.39  | 527,989  | 85  |  | 10  | 82
Heves |  | Eger | Northern Hungary | 3637.17  | 294,609  | 81  |  | 7  | 121
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok |  | Szolnok | Northern Great Plain | 5581.63  | 370,007  | 66  |  | 9  | 78
Komárom-Esztergom |  | Tatabánya | Central Transdanubia | 2264.35  | 299,207  | 132  |  | 6  | 76
Nógrád |  | Salgótarján | Northern Hungary | 2544.48  | 189,304  | 74  |  | 6  | 131
Pest |  | Budapest  | Central Hungary | 6391.18  | 1,278,874  | 200  |  | 18  | 187
Somogy |  | Kaposvár | Southern Transdanubia | 6065.06  | 301,429  | 50  |  | 8  | 245
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg |  | Nyíregyháza | Northern Great Plain | 5935.92  | 552,964  | 93  |  | 13  | 229
Tolna |  | Szekszárd | Southern Transdanubia | 3703.20  | 217,463  | 59  |  | 6  | 109
Vas |  | Szombathely | Western Transdanubia | 3336.11  | 253,551  | 76  |  | 7  | 216
Veszprém |  | Veszprém | Central Transdanubia | 4463.64  | 341,317  | 76  |  | 10  | 217
Zala |  | Zalaegerszeg | Western Transdanubia | 3783.84  | 268,648  | 71  |  | 6  | 258
Hungary |  | Budapest |  | 93,023  | 9,772,756  | 105  |  | 174  | 3176

There are seven towns with county's rights in addition to the county seats:

* Baja (Bács-Kiskun county)
* Dunaújváros (Fejér county)
* Esztergom (Komárom-Esztergom county)
* Érd (Pest county)
* Hódmezővásárhely (Csongrád-Csanád county)
* Nagykanizsa (Zala county)
* Sopron (Győr-Moson-Sopron county)

### Codes of the counties

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County  | ISO 3166-2[2] | NUTS[3] | Phone prefix[4] | Postal code[5]

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Baranya  | HU-BA | HU231  | 69, 72, 73  | 73xx, 75xx – 79xx
Bács-Kiskun  | HU-BK | HU331  | 76, 77, 78, 79  | 60xx – 65xx
Békés  | HU-BE | HU332  | 66, 68  | 55xx – 59xx
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén  | HU-BZ | HU311  | 46, 47, 48, 49  | 34xx – 39xx
Budapest  | HU-BU | HU101  | 1  | 1xxx
Csongrád-Csanád  | HU-CS | HU333  | 62, 63  | 66xx – 69xx
Fejér  | HU-FE | HU211  | 22, 25  | 206x, 209x, 24xx, 700x – 701x, 7041, 80xx, 811x – 815x
Győr-Moson-Sopron  | HU-GS | HU221  | 96, 99  | 90xx – 94xx
Hajdú-Bihar  | HU-HB | HU321  | 52, 54  | 40xx – 422x, 4241 – 4243, 425x – 429x
Heves  | HU-HE | HU312  | 36, 37  | 300x – 304x, 32xx – 33xx
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok  | HU-JN | HU322  | 56, 57, 59  | 50xx – 54xx
Komárom-Esztergom  | HU-KE | HU212  | 33, 34  | 2027 – 2028, 2067, 25xx, 28xx – 29xx
Nógrád  | HU-NO | HU313  | 32, 35  | 2175 – 2179, 2610, 2611, 2616 – 2619, 264x – 269x, 304x – 31xx
Pest  | HU-PE | HU102  | 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 53  | 20xx – 23xx, 2440, 2461, 260x – 263x, 2680 – 2683, 27xx
Somogy  | HU-SO | HU232  | 82, 84, 85  | 7253 – 729x, 74xx – 75xx, 7918, 7977 – 7979, 86xx – 873x, 884x – 885x
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg  | HU-SZ | HU323  | 42, 44, 45  | 423x, 4244 – 4246, 4267, 43xx – 49xx
Tolna  | HU-TO | HU233  | 74, 75  | 702x – 7252, 7352 – 7361
Vas  | HU-VA | HU222  | 94, 95  | 95xx – 99xx
Veszprém  | HU-VE | HU213  | 87, 88, 89  | 810x, 816x – 819x, 830x – 8352, 84xx – 85xx
Zala  | HU-ZA | HU223  | 83, 92, 93  | 8353 – 839x, 874x – 879x, 880x – 883x, 8855, 8856, 886x – 889x, 89xx

## See also

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Politics of Hungary

Constitution

* 1949 Constitution
* Constitutional Court

Executive

* President (list)

Tamás Sulyok
* Government

Current cabinet
Prime Minister (list)

Viktor Orbán

Parliament

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Speaker: László Kövér
* Political parties

Fidesz

Christian Democratic People's
Party (KDNP)

Jobbik
Politics Can Be Different (LMP)
Dialogue for Hungary (PM)
Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP)
Democratic Coalition (DK)
Momentum Movement (M)
Everybody's Hungary Movement (MMM)
Our Homeland Movement (MH)

Recent elections

*     * Parliamentary: 2014
* 2018
* 2022

*     * Presidential: 2017
* 2022
* 2024

*     * Local: 2014
* 2019
* 2024

*     * European: 2014
* 2019
* 2024

Budapest

|  Mayor of Budapest

Gergely Karácsony
Mayoral elections

1994
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2002
2006
2010
2014
2019

Administrative divisions

* Districts
* Counties
* Regions
* Subregions

Foreign relations

* Austria–Hungary relations
* China–Hungary relations
* France–Hungary relations
* Germany–Hungary relations
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* * *

* Timeline of Hungary–European Union relations
* Politics of the European Union

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* Other countries

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* Regions of Hungary
* Districts of Hungary (from 2013) – Subregions of Hungary (until 2013)
* Ranked list of Hungarian counties
* List of cities and towns of Hungary
* NUTS:HU
* Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary (until 1918)
* Counties of the Kingdom of Hungary
* Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary (1941–44)

## Notes

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1. ^ Budapest is not a county, but a municipality that has an identical administrative status to all the other 19 counties.

## References

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1. ^ a b c d Gazetteer of Hungary, 1 January 2019, Központi Statisztikai Hivatal, 2019, ISSN 1217-2952, retrieved 8 August 2021.
2. ^ ISO 3166 Country Codes, International Organization for Standardization, retrieved 8 August 2021.
3. ^ MAGYARORSZÁG – NU, European Commission, retrieved 8 August 2021.
4. ^ Presentation of E.164 National Numbering Plan (NNP) for Hungary (country code +36), International Telecommunication Union, retrieved 8 August 2021.
5. ^ Hungary Post Codes, WorldPostalCode, retrieved 8 August 2021.

## External links

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* Gazetteer of Hungary, 2012
* Gazetteer of Hungary, 1 January 2019
* ISO 3166 Country Codes
* MAGYARORSZÁG – NU
* Presentation of E.164 National Numbering Plan (NNP) for Hungary (country code +36)

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Counties (vármegyék) of Hungary

* Baranya
* Bács-Kiskun
* Békés
* Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
* Csongrád-Csanád
* Fejér
* Győr-Moson-Sopron
* Hajdú-Bihar
* Heves
* Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok
* Komárom-Esztergom
* Nógrád
* Pest
* Somogy
* Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
* Tolna
* Vas
* Veszprém
* Zala

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County seats of Hungary

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* Békéscsaba, Békés
* Budapest, Pest
* Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar
* Eger, Heves

* Győr, Győr-Moson-Sopron
* Kaposvár, Somogy
* Kecskemét, Bács-Kiskun
* Miskolc, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén

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* Pécs, Baranya
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* Szeged, Csongrád-Csanád

* Székesfehérvár, Fejér
* Szekszárd, Tolna
* Szolnok, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok
* Szombathely, Vas

* Tatabánya, Komárom-Esztergom
* Veszprém, Veszprém
* Zalaegerszeg, Zala

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| Area|

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Borough|

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Canton|

Half-canton

Capital|

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City|

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County|

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* in the US
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Region|

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State|

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Territory|

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Town|

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Township|

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Unit|

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Zone|

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| Current|

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* Sitio
* Seniūnija
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* Sum
* China
* Sýsla
* Tehsil
* Townlet
* Vingtaine

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* Nome
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* Pagus
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* Satrapy
* Socken
* Subah
* Syssel
* Zhou

Used by ten or more countries or having derived terms. Historical derivations in italics.

See also
Autonomous administration
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List of administrative divisions by country
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