Hungary
LanguageHungarian
Driving sideDrives on the right
Domain.hu
Easily confused with:Romania, Serbia, CroatiaQuizzes for this area:Hungary State Quiz, Hungary City Quiz, Area code quiz (Hungary)
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Clues that work anywhere in this area
Language & Script★★★
Letters with two diagonal dots (a double acute), like ű and ő, are a Hungarian trademark. Only Hungarian and Chuvash (spoken in Russia, using ӳ) use the double acute.
Examples1SourcesDouble acute
Road★★★
Route numbers appear in a distinctive green shape.
Language & Script★★★
Letters marked with an acute accent (´) aren't used in neighboring Romanian, and aren't part of the standard orthography in Slovenian, Serbian, or Croatian either.
SourcesAcute accentSee alsoRomaniaSloveniaSerbiaCroatia
Signs★★★
Signs are often fastened with 4 screws, clearly visible from the front of the sign.
Watch outVisible screws show up in other countries too, so weigh the surrounding atmosphere as well when deciding on Hungary.
Examples12Sourcesneckoluv (Twitch)
Signs★★★
The figure on the crosswalk sign is wearing a belt.
TipA stretch — but if the legs form something like a "ハ" shape, think Hungary; a "く" shape, Croatia.
SourcesComparison of European road signsSee alsoCroatia
Building★★★
Suburban houses are often single-story, with bright-colored concrete walls and reddish-brown tile roofs.
Bollard★★★
There's a bollard style you might see in Hungary or Croatia.
See alsoCroatia
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Utility Pole★★★
There's a utility-pole style that feels distinctively Hungarian.
Road★★★
Bike lanes are marked with a yellow line.
Narrowing down the region4
Once you know the area: which part of it
Area Code
Phone area codes narrow down the region
Phone area codes are assigned by region. When a number shows up on a sign, an advert or a van, its leading digits narrow the location down to a part of the country.
Coloured by leading digitTerrain
Landscape★★★
The southeast is covered in flat plains, but the north has mountains reaching close to 1,000m at their highest.
Agriculture
Where Agriculture clues apply3
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Plants & farming★★★★
Tall corn fields appear almost everywhere, but they're especially common on the eastern Great Plain and in the south west of the Danube. They're rarer in the northern mountains.
Plants & farming★★★★
Sunflower fields are concentrated on the southeastern Great Plain. They're sparser in the western hills and the northern mountains.
TipSunflower fields are also common just across the border in western Romania (Timiș, Arad, and Bihor counties) and Serbia's Vojvodina, so don't call this based on sunflowers alone.
SourcesA napraforgómag termelése vármegye és régió szerint - KSH (sunflower harvested area by county)See alsoRomania
Plants & farming★★★
Hillsides covered edge-to-edge in vineyards point to Heves county in the north (Eger and others), Tokaj in the northeast, Villány in the south, or the north shore of Lake Balaton. The largest vineyard area is in Bács-Kiskun county (Kunság), which spreads across flat, sandy ground.
Examples12SourcesA szőlő termelése vármegye és régió szerint - KSH (vineyard area by county)Hungarian wine - Wikipedia (wine-region names and locations)Duna wine region - Wikipedia (Kunság is a sandy region between the Danube and Tisza rivers, the largest producing area)
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