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The population of Budapest was 1,735,041 on 1 January 2013. [1] According to the 2011 census, the Budapest metropolitan area was home to 2,530,167 people and the Budapest commuter area (real periphery of the city) had 3.3 million inhabitants. [2] The Hungarian capital is the largest in the Pannonian Basin and the ninth largest in the European ...
Budapest is a prominent location for the Hungarian entertainment industry, with many films, television series, books, and other media set there. Budapest is the largest centre for film and television production in Hungary. In 2011, it employed more than 50,000 people and generated 63.9% of revenues of the media industry in the country. [229]
On 13 February 1945, Budapest surrendered; by April, German troops left the country under Soviet military occupation. 200,000 Hungarians were expelled from Czechoslovakia in exchange for 70,000 Slovaks living in Hungary. 202,000 ethnic Germans were expelled to Germany, [90] and through the 1947 Paris Peace Treaties, Hungary was again reduced to ...
Budapest has been nicknamed "Hollywood on the Danube" because it is arguably now the most Hollywood-populated [clarification needed] place outside the U.S. [citation needed] Steven Spielberg's Munich was also partly shot in Budapest. Most of Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II was shot in Hungary. Altogether 47 foreign films were shot in Hungary in ...
Tom Lantos – (1928-2008) born Tamás Péter Lantos in Budapest was a noted American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1981 until his death in 2008. Tibor P. Nagy – (1949-) born in Budapest, Hungary. He was the 19th Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (2018 ...
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See List of Hungarian Americans for descendants of Hungarian émigrés born in America, a significant number of whom are of Jewish ancestry. The names are presented in the Western European convention of the given name preceding the family name, whereas in Hungary, the reverse is true, as in most Asian cultures.
The following list includes notable people who were born, lived or resided in Budapest, Hungary and/or who became its honorary citizens, either during their lifetime or posthumously. Academics [ edit ]