Interesting Information about Hungary

1.

Hungary's first free elections were held in 1990.

2.

Hungary became a member of the European Union (EU) on May 1, 2004.

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The country receives almost one third of all foreign direct investment flowing in to Central Europe.

4.

Hungary's population is almost 10 million, according to a July 2010 estimate.

5.

The largest geothermal lake in the world is located in Hungary at Lake Heviz.

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Hungary is a nation of inventors, including the Rubik's cube, holography, the ballpoint pen, the hydrogen bomb and BASIC programming language.

7.

Hungary's language, Magyar, is closely related to Finnish and Estonian.