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Hungary GEOGRAPHY
Size: Approximately 92,103 square kilometers.
Topography: Lies in the central Danube Basin.
Rolling
foothills in the west; hilly region north of Budapest;
remainder
of the country to the east and south has a variety of
terrains.
Highest point: Mount Kekes, 1,008 meters.
Climate: Continental and mild.
SOCIETY
Population: Approximately 10.6 million in 1989;
average
annual growth rate, negative 0.2 percent.
Ethnic Groups: Magyars more than 95 percent of
population. Minorities include Gypsies, Germans, Jews,
Slovaks,
Serbs, Slovenes, Croats, Romanians, and Greeks.
Language: Modern Hungarian spoken by all.
Various
dialects used at home. Minorities bilingual.
Religion: Religious freedom guaranteed by
Constitution.
About 67.5 percent Roman Catholic, 20 percent Reformed
(Calvinist), 5 percent Lutheran, and 5 percent
unaffiliated.
Small numbers of other Protestant sects, Uniates,
Orthodox, and
Jews.
Education: Free, compulsory education from ages
six to
sixteen. About of half students get vocational and
technical
training. About 10 percent of population aged eighteen to
twentytwo enrolled in regular daytime courses in higher
education.
Welfare: Social insurance program includes free
health
care, unemployment compensation, and retirement benefits.
Health
care good, with decline in infant mortality and incidence
of
communicable diseases. High proportion of elderly;
pensions low
relative to wages.
Data as of September 1989
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