thumb|350px|Towns and villages in Hungary
Hungary has 3,152 municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: , plural: ; the terminology does not distinguish between cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages (Hungarian: , plural: ) of which 126 are classified as large villages (Hungarian: , plural: ). The number of towns can change, since villages can be elevated to town status by act of the President. The capital Budapest has a special status and is not included in any county while 25 of the towns are so-called cities with county rights. All county seats except Budapest are cities with county rights.
Four of the cities (Budapest, Miskolc, Győr, and Pécs) have agglomerations, and the Hungarian Statistical Office distinguishes seventeen other areas in earlier stages of agglomeration development.
The largest city is the capital, Budapest, while the smallest town is Pálháza with 1038 inhabitants (2010). The largest village is Solymár (population: 10,123 as of 2010). There are more than 100 villages with fewer than 100 inhabitants while the smallest villages have fewer than 20 inhabitants.
Largest cities in Hungary
Bold: City with county rights.<br>
Italics: Capital city.
Over 100,000 (large cities)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!rowspan=2|
!rowspan=2|City / town
!rowspan=2|County
!colspan=4|Population
!rowspan=2|Peak population
!rowspan=2|Metropolitan area (2026)
|-
!data-sort-type=number|1949 Census
!data-sort-type=number|1990 Census
!data-sort-type=number|2011 Census
!data-sort-type=number|2022 Census
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 1.
| Budapest
|Budapest (Pest)
|align="right"| 1,590,316
|align="right"| 2,016,681
|align="right"| 1,733,685
|align="right"| 1,685,342
|align="right"| 2,113,034 (1989)
| style="text-align:center;"|2,880,025
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 2.
| Debrecen
|Hajdú-Bihar
|align="right"| 115,399
|align="right"| 212,235
|align="right"| 211,340
|align="right"| 199,858
|align="right"| 217,706 (1994)
| style="text-align:center;"|270,173
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 3.
| Szeged
|Csongrád-Csanád
|align="right"| 104,867
|align="right"| 175,301
|align="right"| 168,048
|align="right"| 158,797
|align="right"| 178,878 (1994)
| style="text-align:center;"|200,354
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 4.
| Miskolc
|Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
|align="right"| 109,841
|align="right"| 196,442
|align="right"| 167,754
|align="right"| 147,533
|align="right"| 211,345 (1985)
| style="text-align:center;"|219,879
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 5.
| Pécs
|Baranya
|align="right"| 89,470
|align="right"| 170,039
|align="right"| 156,049
|align="right"| 139,330
|align="right"| 172,177 (1994)
| style="text-align:center;"|171,879
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 6.
| Győr
|Győr-Moson-Sopron
|align="right"| 69,583
|align="right"| 129,331
|align="right"| 129,527
|align="right"| 127,599
|align="right"| 133,946 (2020)
| style="text-align:center;"|210,779
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 7.
| Nyíregyháza
|Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
|align="right"| 56,334
|align="right"| 114,152
|align="right"| 119,746
|align="right"| 116,282
|align="right"| 119,746 (2011)
| style="text-align:center;"|159,978
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 8.
| Kecskemét
|Bács-Kiskun
|align="right"| 61,730
|align="right"| 102,516
|align="right"| 111,411
|align="right"| 108,120
|align="right"| 112,641 (2016)
| style="text-align:center;"|181,321
|- class="sortbottom"
|colspan=9 align="center"|Sources:
|}
<gallery widths="175px" heights="175px" perrow="5">
Image:Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest at night.jpg|33px Budapest
Image:Ref. Nagytemplom (5233. számú műemlék) 12.jpg|28px Debrecen
Image:Szeged cathedral in winter 2009 (1).JPG|28px Szeged
Image:Lillafüred, Palace Hotel (1).jpg|27px Miskolc
Image:GaziKaszimFotoThalerTamas1.jpg|29px Pécs
Image:Győr, Városháza.jpg|29px Győr
Image:Kossuthsquare.JPG|29px Nyíregyháza
Image:Városi Tanácsház (2253. számú műemlék) 4.jpg|17px Kecskemét
</gallery>
50,000–100,000 (medium-sized cities)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!rowspan=2|
!rowspan=2|City / town
!rowspan=2|County
!colspan=4|Population
!rowspan=2|Peak population
!rowspan=2|Metropolitan area<br />(2026)
|-
!1949 Census
!1990 Census
!2011 Census
!2022 Census
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 9.
| Székesfehérvár
|Fejér
|align="right"| 42,260
|align="right"| 108,958
|align="right"| 100,570
|align="right"| 95.045
|align="right"|109,762 (1993)
| style="text-align:center;"| 148,112
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 10.
| Szombathely
|Vas
|align="right"| 47,589
|align="right"| 85,617
|align="right"| 78,884
|align="right"| 78,190
|align="right"|85,932 (1994)
| style="text-align:center;"| 108,223
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 11.
| Érd
|Pest
|align="right"| 16,444
|align="right"| 43,327
|align="right"| 63,631
|align="right"| 71,253
|align="right"|71,425 (2022)
| style="text-align:center;"| Budapest
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 12.
| Szolnok
|Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok
|align="right"| 37,520
|align="right"| 78,328
|align="right"| 72,953
|align="right"| 66,061
|align="right"|80,859 (1994)
| style="text-align:center;"| 106,003
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 13.
| Tatabánya
|Komárom-Esztergom
|align="right"| 40,221
|align="right"| 74,277
|align="right"| 67,753
|align="right"| 65,830
|align="right"|75,921 (1980)
| style="text-align:center;"| -
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 14.
| Sopron
|Győr-Moson-Sopron
|align="right"| 36,506
|align="right"| 55,083
|align="right"| 60,548
|align="right"| 60,334
|align="right"|63,065 (2020)
| style="text-align:center;"| -
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 15.
| Kaposvár
|Somogy
|align="right"| 37,945
|align="right"| 71,788
|align="right"| 66,245
|align="right"| 59,397
|align="right"|74,101 (1979)
| style="text-align:center;"| -
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 16.
| Békéscsaba
|Békés
|align="right"| 44,053
|align="right"| 67,157
|align="right"| 62,050
|align="right"| 55,164
|align="right"|68,044 (1980)
| style="text-align:center;"| -
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 17.
| Veszprém
|Veszprém
|align="right"| 20,682
|align="right"| 63,867
|align="right"| 61,721
|align="right"| 55,910
|align="right"|65,789 (1994)
| style="text-align:center;"| -
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 18.
| Zalaegerszeg
|Zala
|align="right"| 21,668
|align="right"| 62,212
|align="right"| 59,499
|align="right"| 54,428
|align="right"|62,908 (1994)
| style="text-align:center;"| -
|- style="background:#faecc8;"
|colspan=9 align="center"|Source:
<gallery widths="115px" heights="115px" perrow="8">
Image:CentreSzekszárd.jpg|18px Szekszárd
Image:Hajdúböszörmény Fő tér szökőkút.JPG|20px Hajdúböszörmény
Image:Pápa városközpontjának légi felvétele, a Fő tér épületei.jpg|19px Pápa
Image:Budaőrs - Kőhegy.jpg|18px Budaörs
Image:Kiskunfelégyháza Rathaus 1.JPG|18px Kiskunfélegyháza
Image:Vár (2485. számú műemlék) 2.jpg|17px Gyula
Image:Főszékesegyház (6238. számú műemlék) 9.jpg|18px Esztergom
Image:20190502 Fő tér Szentendre 1414 2082 DxO.jpg|16px Szentendre
Image:R. k. templom (Szent Bertalan) (5672. számú műemlék) 3.jpg|20px Gyöngyös
Image:Templomdomb, Ajka.jpg|18px Ajka
Image:Main church in Jaszberény.jpg|20px Jászberény
Image:Sarlós Boldogasszony-templom, 2012-08-14 Siófok, Hungary - panoramio (10).jpg|18px Siófok
Image:Orosháza, Hungary - panoramio (3).jpg|18px Orosháza
Image:Hősök tere park, 2019 Kiskunhalas.jpg|23px Kiskunhalas
Image:Megyeháza (3538. számú műemlék) 45.jpg|18px Szentes
Image:Gyál Town Hall.jpg|18px Gyál
Image:Szőke Gábor Miklós – Unikornis.jpg|25px Kazincbarcika
Image:Reformed church, Hajdúszoboszló 04.JPG|23px Hajdúszoboszló
</gallery>
All other towns in Hungary
Sources:
24,000 – 15,000
15,000 – 5,000
< 5,000
Largest cities in Hungary in 1910
In 1910, the ten largest cities in the Kingdom of Hungary (including Croatia-Slavonia) were:
- 1. Budapest (the capital of Hungary): 880,371
- 2. Szeged: 118,328
- 3. Szabadka (now Subotica in Serbia): 94,610
- 4. Debrecen: 92,729
- 5. Zágráb (then located in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, today Zagreb in Croatia): 79,038
- 6. Pozsony (now Bratislava in Slovakia): 78,223
- 7. Temesvár (now located in Romania): 72,555
- 8. Kecskemét: 66,834
- 9. Arad (now located in Romania): 63,166
- 10. Hódmezővásárhely: 62,445
Out of Hungary's ten largest cities in 1910, five are now located outside of the Kingdom of Hungary as a result of post-World War I border changes.
See also
- Regions of Hungary
- Counties of Hungary
- Districts of Hungary (from 2013)
- Subregions of Hungary (until 2013)
- Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary (until 1918)
- Counties of the Kingdom of Hungary
- Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary (1941–44)
- NUTS:HU
References
External links
- Subdivisions of Hungary
- Gazetteer of Hungary (HCSO 2008)