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<title>
Hungary: Geography
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Hungary
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: Eastern Europe, between Slovakia and Romania
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 93,030 km2</l>
<l> land area: 92,340 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: slightly smaller than Indiana</l>
</list>
<p>Land boundaries: total 1,952 km, Austria 366 km, Croatia 292 km,
Romania 443 km, Serbia and Montenegro 151 km (all with Serbia),
Slovakia 515 km, Slovenia 82 km, Ukraine 103 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)
</p>
<p>Maritime claims: none; landlocked
</p>
<p>International disputes: Gabcikovo Dam dispute with Slovakia;
Vojvodina taken from Hungary and awarded to the former Yugoslavia by
treaty of Trianon in 1920
</p>
<p>Climate: temperate; cold, cloudy, humid winters; warm summers
</p>
<p>Terrain: mostly flat to rolling plains
</p>
<p>Natural resources: bauxite, coal, natural gas, fertile soils
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: 50.7%</l>
<l> permanent crops: 6.1%</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: 12.6%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: 18.3%</l>
<l> other: 12.3%</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: 1,750 km2 (1989)
</p>
<p>Environment: levees are common along many streams, but flooding
occurs almost every year
</p>
<p>Note: landlocked; strategic location astride main land routes
between Western Europe and Balkan Peninsula as well as between
Ukraine and Mediterranean basin
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