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Demographics of Budapest. 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 ...
The city of Budapest was officially created on 17 November 1873 from a merger of the three neighboring cities of Pest, Buda and Óbuda. Smaller towns on the outskirts of the original city were amalgamated into Greater Budapest in 1950. The origins of Budapest can be traced to Celts who occupied the plains of Hungary in the 4th century BC.
1265 - Buda Castle first completed. [2] 1270 - Saint Margaret of Hungary dies in a cloister on the Isle of Rabbits (present day Margaret Island). 1320 - Royal wedding of King Charles I of Hungary and Princess Elizabeth of Poland, Hungarian–Polish alliance formed. [3] 1361 - Buda became the capital of Hungary.
Budapest is the fourth most "dynamically growing city" by population in Europe, [147] and the Euromonitor predicts a population increase of almost 10% between 2005 and 2030. [148] The European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion says Budapest's population will increase by 10% to 30% only due to migration by 2050. [149]
The number of bilingual people was much higher, for example 1,398,729 people spoke German (17%), 399,176 people spoke Slovak (5%), 179,928 people spoke Croatian (2.2%) and 88,828 people spoke Romanian (1.1%). Hungarian was spoken by 96% of the total population and was the mother language of 89%.
The Budapest metropolitan area (Hungarian: budapesti agglomeráció, pronounced [ˈbudɒpɛʃti ˈɒɡlomɛraːt͡sijoː]) is a statistical area that describes the reach of commuter movement to and from Budapest and its surrounding suburbs. Created by Hungary's national statistical office HCSO to describe suburban development around centres of ...
In 2018, Europe had a total population of over 751 million people. [1][2] 448 million of that live in the European Union and 110 million live in European Russia, Russia being the most populous country in Europe. Europe's population growth is low, and its median age high.
Greater Budapest is the name of Budapest in its present, extended size, as it was created by the Law No. XXVI of 1949 passed on December 15, 1949 and it came into force on January 1, 1950. By attaching 7 towns and 16 villages to the former Budapest, its area enlarged from 207 km 2 to 525 km 2 (154%), the number of its inhabitants increased from ...