Hungary - Introduction

Culture Name Hungarian... Alternative Name Magyar... Language: Difficult to impossible.To get there: go into Europe and carry on for 8 days . You will be in, and, Hungary...Hungarian derives from Onogur, a Bulgarian-Turkish tribe's name. Between the sixth and eight centuries AD, both Hungarian tribes and the Onogurs lived just north and to the east of the Black Sea.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/sysm/landscapes/highlands_islands/flash/index.shtml?flash=land_ms_compass in case you do not understand north and south etcLocation and Geography. Hungary is a landlocked country in central Europe. Alandlocked stateorcountryis asovereign stateentirely enclosed by land, There are currently 48 such countries but only two,BoliviaandParaguayinSouth America, lie outsideAfro-Eurasia(theOld World).As a rule, being landlocked creates political and economic problems because you cannot get to open waters, so many countries have tried to get even a small amount of coast.

Landlocked by a single country[edit]Three countries are landlocked by a single country: Lesotho, a state surrounded bySouth Africa. San Marino, a state surrounded byItaly. Vatican City, a state forming part ofRome, thereby surrounded byItaly.Landlocked by two countries[edit]Seven landlocked countries are surrounded by only two mutually bordering neighbors: Andorra(betweenFranceandSpain) Bhutan(betweenIndiaandChina) Liechtenstein(one of the "doubly landlocked" countries, betweenSwitzerlandandAustria) Moldova(betweenUkraineandRomania) Mongolia(betweenRussiaandChina) Nepal(betweenIndiaandChina) Swaziland(betweenSouth AfricaandMozambique)To this group could be added twode factostates with no or limited international recognition: South Ossetia(betweenRussiaandGeorgia) Transnistria(betweenUkraineandMoldova) Doubly landlocked[edit]A country is "doubly landlocked" or "double-landlocked" when it is surrounded entirely by one or more landlocked countries (requiring the crossing of at least two national borders to reach a coastline).There are currently only two such countries: LiechtensteininCentral Europe, surrounded bySwitzerlandandAustria. UzbekistaninCentral Asia, surrounded byAfghanistan,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan, andTurkmenistan.[9]

Hungary dreams of creating an empire in South America...Covering an area of 35,934 square miles (93,030 square kilometers), the country is in the Carpathian Basin, surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains, the Alps, and the Dinaric Alps.

The Danube River divides Hungary and bisects the capital, Budapest. The Danube is the second largest river in Europe. It is rich in history, enveloped in an aura of legend and myth (it is believed that it is the home of the Greek Muses). The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as two smaller rivers the Brigach and the Breg and these two rivers join at Donaueschingen, and it is from here that it is known as the Danube, flowing south-eastwards for a distance of some 2850 km before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania. The Danube has been an important international waterway for centuries, as it remains today. In addition, the German poet Friedrich Hlderlin called the Danube a refreshing, melodious river, sometimes foaming with high spirits, at other times dreaming serenely. No other river in the entire world has inspired so many poets, musicians and painters to create masterpieces; along no other river can such a tremendous variety of scenery, historic cities, magnificent architecture and cultural treasures be found.

Figure 1 The Danube trying to go East, accidentally cuts Hungary in half. Bocsnat, Hungary, but I was hungry.