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Budapest

Budapest
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About Budapest

Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is Hungary's primate city with 1.7 million inhabitants and its greater metro area has a population of about 3.3 million, representing one-third of the country's population and producing above 40% of the country's economic output. Budapest is the political, economic, and cultural center of the country, among the ten largest cities in the European Union and the second largest urban area in Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest stands on the River Danube and is strategically located at the center of the Pannonian Basin, lying on ancient trade routes linking the hills of Transdanubia with the Great Plain.

On the show · 28 mentions total

The theatrophone was very popular in Budapest, and Harper's Weekly said the system had made it a city full of illiterate, blind, bedridden and incurably lazy people.

from No Such Thing as Proust's Sausage Roll · read transcript

More facts about Budapest

  1. Bucharest and Budapest are the fifth most mixed up places in the world.

    75: No Such Thing As Diarrhoea Drive · listen

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Coordinates: 47.4925, 19.0514

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