Letenye (, sl, Letina) is a town in

Zala County Zala ( hu, Zala megye, ; ; ) is an administrative county ( comitatus or ''megye'') in south-western Hungary. It is named after the Zala River. It shares borders with Croatia ( Koprivnica–Križevci and Međimurje Counties) and Slovenia ( Lend ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Cr ...

, on the border with

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. Across the border is the town of

Goričan Goričan ( hu, Muracsány) is a municipality in Međimurje County, Croatia. Goričan is the only village belonging to the municipality. Its population in the 2011 census was 2,823. Of the entire population, 2,763 people identified themselves as Cr ...

. Letenye was elevated to town status in 1989.

History

Transport

Letenye is the endpoint of the Hungarian M7 motorway from

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population o ...

. The motorway crosses the Croatian-Hungarian border here and connects with the Croatian A4 motorway at

Notable people

Feró Nagy Ferenc "Feró" Nagy (born 14 January 1946 in Letenye, Hungary) is a Hungarian rock singer and musician. Although not proficient on any instrument, he can play the guitar, the harmonica, the saxophone and the piano. Career Feró studied at th ...

(1946-) - Hungarian rock singer, musician

Twin town

Letenye is twinned with: *

Prelog, Croatia Prelog ( hu, Perlak, Kajkavian: ''Prilok'') is a town in Međimurje County, in northern Croatia. The total population of the town is 4,324, with 7,815 in the town's administrative area, making it the second most populated settlement in the count ...

File:Hungary letenye.jpg, Pre-Schengen passport stamp from Letenye crossing into Goričan, Croatia. File:Hungary letenye2.jpg, A later passport stamp for the same border crossing.

External links

* in Hungarian

References

Populated places in Zala County Croatia–Hungary border crossings {{Zala-geo-stub