<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Hungary<nl>Geography</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Location:</hi> Central Europe, between Slovakia and Romania
<item><hi format=bold>Area:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>total area:</hi> 93,030 sq km
<item>• <hi format=ital>land area:</hi> 92,340 sq km
<item>• <hi format=ital>comparative area:</hi> slightly smaller than Indiana
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<item><hi format=bold>Land boundaries:</hi> total 1,989 km, Austria 366 km, Croatia 329 km, Romania 443 km, Serbia and Montenegro 151 km (all with Serbia), Slovakia 515 km, Slovenia 82 km, Ukraine 103 km
<item><hi format=bold>Coastline:</hi> 0 km (landlocked)
<item>• <hi format=ital>meadows and pastures:</hi> 12.6%
<item>• <hi format=ital>forest and woodland:</hi> 18.3%
<item>• <hi format=ital>other:</hi> 12.3%
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<item><hi format=bold>Irrigated land:</hi> 1,750 sq km (1989)
<item><hi format=bold>Environment:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>current issues:</hi> air pollution; industrial and municipal pollution of Lake Balaton
<item>• <hi format=ital>natural hazards:</hi> levees are common along many streams, but flooding occurs almost every year
<item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> party to—Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands; signed, but not ratified—Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Law of the Sea
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<item><hi format=bold>Note:</hi> landlocked; strategic location astride main land routes between Western Europe and Balkan Peninsula as well as between Ukraine and Mediterranean basin