Counties of Hungary

Hungary is subdivided administratively into 19 counties (megyék, singular: megye) 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]

Counties of Hungary
Hungarian: Magyarország megyéi
CategoryUnitary state
LocationHungary
Created
Number19 (as of 1950)
Additional status
  • electoral constituency
Populations189,304 (Nógrád) – 1,278,874 (Pest)
Areas2,265 km2 (875 sq mi) (Komárom-Esztergom) – 8,445 km2 (3,261 sq mi) (Bács-Kiskun)
Government
Subdivisions
  • District
  • Municipality/town/commune/sector

There are 23 towns with county's 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.

List of counties
Hungarian counties[1]
County Coat of
arms		 County seat Area
(km²)[1]		 Population
(2019)[1]		 Population density
(people/km², 2019)		 Map No. of
district		 No. of
municipalities
Baranya Pécs 4429.60 360,704 81 10 301
Bács-Kiskun Kecskemét 8444.89 503,825 60 11 119
Békés Békéscsaba 5629.71 334,264 59 9 75
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Miskolc 7247.19 642,447 89 16 358
Budapest Municipality of
Budapest
[note 1]		 525.14 1,752,286 3337 23 –
Csongrád-Csanád Szeged 4262.79 399,012 94 7 60
Fejér Székesfehérvár 4358.48 417,712 96 8 108
Győr-Moson-Sopron Győr 4207.79 467,144 111 7 183
Hajdú-Bihar Debrecen 6210.39 527,989 85 10 82
Heves Eger 3637.17 294,609 81 7 121
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Szolnok 5581.63 370,007 66 9 78
Komárom-Esztergom Tatabánya 2264.35 299,207 132 6 76
Nógrád Salgótarján 2544.48 189,304 74 6 131
Pest Budapest 6391.18 1,278,874 200 18 187
Somogy Kaposvár 6065.06 301,429 50 8 245
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Nyíregyháza 5935.92 552,964 93 13 229
Tolna Szekszárd 3703.20 217,463 59 6 109
Vas Szombathely 3336.11 253,551 76 7 216
Veszprém Veszprém 4463.64 341,317 76 10 217
Zala Zalaegerszeg 3783.84 268,648 71 6 258
Hungary Budapest 93,023 9,772,756 105 174 3176

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

Codes of the counties
County ISO 3166-2[2] NUTS[3] Phone prefix[4] Postal code[5]
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
Politics of Hungary
Constitution
Executive
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Recent elections
Budapest
Mayor of Budapest
Gergely Karácsony
Mayoral elections
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Notes
  1. Budapest is not a county, but a municipality that has an identical administrative status to all the other 19 counties.

References
  1. 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.
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