Mosaics from the History of Hungary and Hungarian Christianity (Part 1) Sign up for free email newsletters.
Hungary is a country in Central Europe. It borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary covers an area of 93,030 square kilometers (35,920 sq mi) in the Carpathian Basin, with a population of 9,730,000. Hungarian, the official language, is the world s most widely spoken Uralic language, and among the few non-Indo-European languages widely spoken in Europe. Budapest is the country s capital and largest city; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs, and Győr.