Factsheet

▪ Hungaricums are high value products of Hungary, which show Hungarian uniqueness, specialty and quality, they embody the top performance of the Hungarian people.

▪ Hungary has 16 Nobel laureates. Or are you interested in Franz Liszt, Charles Simonyi, Paul Erdos, Erno Rubik or Katinka Hosszú?

▪ Two-thirds of Hungary’s geographic area is less than 200 metres above sea level.

▪ Today Hungary has eight locations on the World Heritage List and three items on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

▪ There are big differences in temperature between our four seasons: summers are hot, while winters are cold. Average temperatures range from -1 °C in January to 21 °C in July.

▪ Lake Balaton, covering 598 square km., is one of the biggest tourist attractions of the country. The average depth of the lake is two to three metres, so the water warms up quickly in summer.

▪ There are ten national parks in Hungary.

▪ Hungarian history in the Carpathian basin is dated back to the Hungarian conquest in 896.

▪ The Hungarian crown was given to Saint Stephen by the Pope on the occasion of his coronation at around 1000.

▪ There are also sizable populations of Hungarian speakers in Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine, Israel, the U.S., and Australia. Smaller pockets of Hungarian speakers also live in Canada, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria.