Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
is subdivided administratively into 19
counties
A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
(''vármegyék'', singular: ''vármegye'') and the capital city (''főváros'')
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...
. The counties are further subdivided into 174
districts
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...
(''járások'', singular: ''járás''). The capital Budapest is subdivided into
23 districts (''kerületek'', singular: ''kerület'').
[fiefdoms
A fief (; ) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a form of feudal allegia ...]
; each fiefdom was ruled from a castle (Hungarian: ''vár''). Between 1950 and 2022, the counties of Hungary were officially called ''megyék'' (singular: ''megye''). On 1 January 2023, the original historical name ''vármegye'' was officially restored.
There are seven towns with county's rights in addition to the county seats:
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