Göd () is a small city in Pest County,

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Location

The city is northeast of Budapest.

Economy

Göd has a thriving

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trade. It has a

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open almost 365 days a year with water rich in

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. Along the

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Göd is the second town to the north of Budapest, and the first one without large

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-era

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. That is, the

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around Budapest starts with Göd on the left bank of the

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. The

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Hungary plant is one of Samsung SDI's trio of advanced Lithium-ion automotive battery production facilities: the others are in Ulsan (Korea) and Xi'an (China). The plant at Göd is not far from the Austria-based battery pack division of

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which was acquired by Samsung SDI in 2015 for $120 million. In 2016-2017, the Ulsan plant trained several employees for the Hungary plant. The Ulsan plant had supplied the BMW i3, but the Hungary plant will provide the BMW i3, i5, and X5 with advanced Li-ion batteries.

Infrastructure

Göd is connected to

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(via Dunakeszi, southbound) and to

Vác Vác (; german: Waitzen; sk, Vacov; yi, ווייצען) is a town in Pest county in Hungary with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The archaic spelling of the name is ''Vácz''. Location Vác is located north of Budapest on the eastern bank o ...

(via Sződliget, northbound) by railway and public roads. On an average weekday, there are buses and trains every 30 minutes to both directions. Vác is 15 minutes by car and by train, and 25 minutes by bus. Budapest Nyugati railway station is 30 minutes by train. Because of these benefits, Göd is sometimes categorized as a

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, but it has a vivid social life: civil organizations, churches, galleries, clubs, a monthly newspaper, that make it different from an average dormitory town.

Gallery

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Famous people

Eugene Wigner Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner ( hu, Wigner Jenő Pál, ; November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his co ...

– physicist, Nobel-prize winner; * – biologist, cancer researcher, founder of the Biology Research Centre of Göd; * Fülöp Beck Ö – sculptor; * – ballet-dancer; *

Kálmán Latabár Kálmán Latabár (1902–1970) was a Hungarian comedian and film actor, perhaps the country's most popular comic in the post-war years. "Latyi" reached his peak popularity during the war years and in the early days of Hungarian television, d ...

– actor; *

Mór Kóczán Móric "Mór" Kóczán (; also known under the pseudonym Miklós Kovács; 8 January 1885 – 30 July 1972) was a Hungarian athlete and Calvinist pastor. Specialized for the throwing events, his best results came in the javelin throw, having won ...

– sportsman, athlete (

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), Olympic bronze medalist, Hungarian champion; *

Zoltán Kammerer Zoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: ...

– sportsman ( kayak), World Champion, European Champion, Olympic Gold winner; * Colonel – hero of the

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; *

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– actor; * László Arany – poet (son of

János Arany János Arany (; archaic English: John Arany; 2 March 1817 – 22 October 1882) was a Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 102 ballads that have been transl ...

)

Twin towns – sister cities

Göd is twinned with: *

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, France *

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, Switzerland *

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, Romania *

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, Ukraine

Sport

The local sports and football team is Gödi SE.

References

External links

* in Hungarian {{DEFAULTSORT:God Populated places in Pest County