Hungary has 3145 settlements: 283 cities/towns (Hungarian term: város, plural: városok; the terminology doesn't distinguish between cities and towns) and 2862 villages (Hungarian: falu or község, plural: falvak, községek.) The number of cities/towns can change, since in every year several villages are elevated to town status. 23 of the cities are so-called urban counties (megyei jogú város -- city with county rights), 18 of them are seats of 18 of the 19 counties of Hungary. (All county seats are urban counties, but not all urban counties are county seats; Pest county doesn't have a county seat, it's governed directly from the capital.)
Three of the cities (Budapest, Miskolc, Pécs) have significant agglomerations, Győr is close to becoming the fourth.
The largest city is the capital, Budapest, the smallest town is Zalakaros with 1432 inhabitants (2001). The smallest inhabited settlement is Szanticska, with a population of 8 people (although it is not an independent village but belongs to the nearest village Abaújkér.)
This is a list of cities in Hungary, in order of descending population size (in 2004). An alphabetical list of all cities is given below.
The name "Hungary" may be influenced by the name of the Hun people, although it probably comes from the name of a later, 7th century state called Onogur (or possibly from the name of the city Ungvár, which was possibly the first major city the magyars occupied).
Hungary passed a series of anti-Semitic laws throughot the 1920s and thirties, and some massacres of Jews by Hungarian forces took place in the early part of the Second World War, but Hungary initially resisted large scale deportation of its Jewish population.
This is a list of planned cities (sometimes known as planned communities or new towns) by country.
Additions to this list should be cities whose overall form (as opposed to individual neighborhoods or expansions) has been determined in large part in advance on a drawing board, or which were planned to a degree which is unusual for their time and place.
It is modelled on Italian renaissance theories of the 'ideal city' and built by the architect Bernardo Morando.
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