Hungary - Introduction

Culture Name Hungarian... Alternative Name Magyar... Language: Difficult to

impossible.
To get there: go into Europe and carry on for 8 days . You will be in, and, Hungary...
Hungarian derives from Onogur, a Bulgarian-Turkish tribe's name. Between the sixth
and eight centuries AD, both Hungarian tribes and the Onogurs lived just north and
to the east of the Black Sea.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/sysm/landscapes/highlands_islands/flash/in
dex.shtml?flash=land_ms_compass in case you do not understand north and south
etc
Location and Geography. Hungary is a landlocked country in central Europe.

A landlocked state or country is a sovereign state entirely enclosed by land, There are currently 48
such countries but only two, Bolivia and Paraguay in South America, lie outside AfroEurasia (the Old World).
As a rule, being landlocked creates political and economic problems because you cannot get to
open waters, so many countries have tried to get even a small amount of coast.

Landlocked by a single country[edit]

Three countries are landlocked by a single country:

Lesotho, a state surrounded by South Africa.

San Marino, a state surrounded by Italy.

Vatican City, a state forming part of Rome, thereby surrounded by Italy.

Landlocked by two countries[edit]

Seven landlocked countries are surrounded by only two mutually bordering neighbors:

Andorra (between France and Spain)

Bhutan (between India and China)

Liechtenstein (one of the "doubly landlocked" countries,

between Switzerland and Austria)

Moldova (between Ukraine and Romania)

Mongolia (between Russia and China)

Nepal (between India and China)

Swaziland (between South Africa and Mozambique)

To this group could be added two de facto states with no or limited international recognition:

South Ossetia (between Russia and Georgia)

Transnistria (between Ukraine and Moldova)

Doubly landlocked[edit]
A country is "doubly landlocked" or "double-landlocked" when it is surrounded entirely by one or
more landlocked countries (requiring the crossing of at least two national borders to reach a
coastline).
There are currently only two such countries:

Liechtenstein in Central Europe, surrounded by Switzerland and Austria.

Uzbekistan in Central Asia, surrounded

by Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.[9]

Hungary dreams of creating an empire in South

America...

Covering an area of 35,934 square miles (93,030 square kilometers), the country is
in the Carpathian Basin, surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains, the Alps, and the
Dinaric Alps.

The Danube River divides Hungary and bisects the capital, Budapest. The Danube is the second largest river in
Europe. It is rich in history, enveloped in an aura of legend and myth (it is believed that it is the home of the Greek Muses). The
river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as two smaller rivers the Brigach and the Breg and these two rivers join at
Donaueschingen, and it is from here that it is known as the Danube, flowing south-eastwards for a distance of some 2850 km
before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania. The Danube has been an important international waterway
for centuries, as it remains today. In addition, the German poet Friedrich Hlderlin called the Danube a refreshing, melodious
river, sometimes foaming with high spirits, at other times dreaming serenely. No other river in the entire world has inspired so

many poets, musicians and painters to create masterpieces; along no other river can such a tremendous variety of scenery, historic
cities, magnificent architecture and cultural treasures be found .

Figure 1 The Danube trying to go East, accidentally cuts Hungary in half. Bocsnat,
Hungary, but I was hungry.