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Hungary PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
With a land area of 92,103 square kilometers, Hungary
is
roughly the size of the state of Indiana. It measures
about 250
kilometers from north to south and 524 kilometers from
east to
west. It has some 2,258 kilometers of boundaries, shared
with
Austria to the west, Yugoslavia to the south and
southwest,
Romania to the southeast, the Soviet Union to the
northeast, and
Czechoslovakia to the north.
Hungary's modern borders were first established after
World
War I when, by the terms of the Treaty of Trianon in 1920,
it
lost more than two-thirds of what had formerly been the
Kingdom
of Hungary and 58.5 percent of its population
(see Trianon Hungary
, ch. 1). With the aid of Nazi Germany, the country
secured some boundary revisions at the expense of parts of
Slovakia in 1938 and Carpatho-Ukraine in 1939 and at the
expense
of Romania in 1940. However, Hungary lost these
territories again
with its defeat in World War II. After World War II, the
Trianon
boundaries were restored with a small revision that
benefited
Czechoslovakia.
Data as of September 1989
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