Hungary: Capital, Population, Currency and Facts

Key facts

Capital: Budapest
Region: Europe, Central Europe
Population: 9,514,251 (2025)
Area: 93,030 km²
Currency: Hungarian forint (HUF)
Languages: Hungarian
Calling code: +36
Internet domain: .hu
ISO codes: HU, HUN, 348
Time zone: UTC+1:00
United Nations: Member state
Postal code pattern: #### (# = digit, @ = letter)

Land and position

Hungary covers about 93,030 square kilometres. By area it ranks 111th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than South Korea and a little larger than Portugal. It shares a land border with 7 neighbours: Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine. It is landlocked, which means it has no sea coast. Its centre lies at about 47° north, 20° east, in the northern hemisphere.

Neighbours

People

About 9.51 million people live in Hungary (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 97th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.12 percent of the world's people. On average there are 102 people to each square kilometre. About 71 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 77 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Hungarian. A person from Hungary is called Hungarian.

Money and economy

The currency is the Hungarian forint (code HUF, symbol Ft). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 246 billion (2025), which is about US$ 25,907 for each person (2025).

Time

Hungary uses one time zone, UTC+1:00 (Europe/Budapest). Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.

Time now: loading

Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.

Largest cities

City	People
Budapest	1,741,041
Debrecen	202,402
Szeged	160,766
Miskolc	154,521
Pécs	145,347
Győr	129,301

City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.

More in Central Europe

Czechia, Poland. See the whole region.

Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.