Names |
| ISO3-Code |
HUN |
| Continent |
Europe |
| Country Name |
Hungary |
Administrative Classifications |
| Level Used |
2.0 |
| Leve1 Type |
Megye (County) |
| Level2 Type |
Village |
| Number of Units |
3,158 |
| Population Per Unit ('000) (2000, estimate) |
3 |
National Population Estimates |
| Last Year of Reference |
2002 |
| NSO-Based Estimated Population, 1990 ('000) |
10,251 |
| NSO-Based Estimated Population, 1995 ('000) |
10,216 |
| NSO-Based Estimated Population, 2000 ('000) |
10,186 |
| UN Population, 1990 ('000) |
10,365 |
| UN Population, 1995 ('000) |
10,214 |
| UN Population, 2000 ('000) |
9,968 |
National Spatial Estimates |
| Area (km2) |
92,046 |
| Average Input Resolution (km) |
5 |
Settlement Points |
| Number of Settlement Points |
1,426 |
| Largest Settlement, by Population (2000, estimate) |
1,763,110 |
| Smallest Settlement, by Population (2000, estimate) |
1,000 |
| Mean Settlement, by Population (2000, estimate) |
6,600 |
Urban Areal Extents |
| Number of Urban Extents |
77 |
| Largest Urban Extent (km2) |
1,729 |
| Smallest Urban Extent (km2) |
24 |
| Mean Urban Extent (km2) |
118 |
| Total for All Urban Extent (km2) |
9,114 |
| Largest Urban Extent (population, 2000) |
2,305,039 |
| Smallest Urban Extent (population, 2000) |
5,082 |
| Mean Urban Extent (population, 2000) |
59,367 |
| Total for All Urban Extent (population, 2000) |
4,571,287 |
| % Total Land Area in Urban Extents (km2) |
10% |
| % Total Population in Urban Extents (2000, estimate) |
45% |
| % Total Population that is Urban (2001, UN World Urbanization Prospects) |
65% |
Urban Areal Extents, by Source |
| Nighttime Lights Data |
171 |
| Regression-estimated Extents |
93 |
| Digital Chart of the World |
1 |
| Other |
0 |
Notes |
- Administrative Population Source Data:
- 1990 population from the Census of 1990, Hungarian Statistical Office, Department of Population Surveys, Budapest.
2002 population from The Detailed Gazetteer of the Republic of Hungary. Hungarian Statistical Office. Downloadale Data of the Settlements of the Republic, http://helynevtar.ksh.hu/download.php3?sid=10643405581416982990&tract=3&c_lang=en
- Administrative Boundary Source Data:
- Seamless Administrative Boundaries of Europe (SABE) distributed by Eurographics: http://www.eurogeographics.org/eng/03_projects_sabe.asps (SABE 2001 date of release : February 2003).
- Settlement Point Population Source Data:
- 2001 Hungary Census, Hungary Central Statistical Office, http://www.ksh.hu/pls/ksh/docs/index_eng.html
- Settlement Point Coordinate Source Data:
- Getty, Times Atlas of the World, 1999, NIMA, World Gazetteer
- Urban Criteria for Settlements (UN):
- Budapest and all legally designated towns.
- Administrative Population Edits and Notes:
- The Megye (administrative level 1) growth rate from 1990 to 2002 was applied to 2002 Village (administrative level 2) population. Because of Megye boundary changes, 2002 population of the villages of Lazi, Bakonypeterd, Sikator, Romand, Veszpremvarsany, Bakonygyirot, Bakonyszentlaszlo, Fenyofo from the Megye Gyor-Moson-Sopron are assigned to Vesprem Megye to spatially match 1990 Megye boundaries in order to calculate the Megye growth rate.
Recent Village boundary divisions were accomodated in the following attribution of population:
(1) In Fejer, the population of Daruszentmiklos added to Eloszallas.
(2) In Gyor-Moson-Sopron, the population of Karolyhaza added to Kimle.
(3) In heves, the population of Szarvasko added to Eger.
(4) In Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok, the population of Tiszaszolos added to Tiszafured.
(5) In Komarom-Esztergom, the population of Aszar added to Kisber.
(6) In Nograd, the population of Rakoczibanya added to Batonyterenye.
(7) In Pest, the population of Csorog added to Szod; and population of Remeteszolos added to Nagykovacsi.
(8) In Somogy, population of Zakanyfalu added to Zakany.
(9) In Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg, the population of Szorgalmatos added to Tiszavasvari.
- Administrative Spatial Edits and Notes:
- --
|
