General Resources: Hungary

The sites described in this section provide general information; metasites/portals to Hungarian Internet resources; statistical resources for all disciplines; and state symbols, holidays, and currency.

General Information

Encyclopedia Britannica--Hungary (http://www.britannica.com)
Enter "Hungary" into the search field. Provides useful information and links to a variety of Web sites.

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.World Factbook: Hungary (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/hu.html)
General information and statistics about Hungary, with the following subdivisions: introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.

U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs. Background Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Click on country link.

U.S. Library of Congress, Federal Research Division. Hungary: A Country Study (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/hutoc.html)
The Federal Research Division (FRD) of the Library of Congress published in 1989 an extensive handbook entitled Hungary: a country study. The text and selected graphics of the 320-page work are available in an electronic format on the FRD Web site. The reader can search for words or variants of search words, within one country study or across multiple studies. The country study can be downloaded, one section at a time, and saved as an html or txt file. (No revised editions are planned at present.)

General Portals

Caboodle.hu (http://www.caboodle.hu)
Provides information about current events in Hungary, entertainment, food, commercial directories, and more. In English.

Hungarian Home Page (http://www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/homepage.html)
Maintained by the Budapest University of Technology. Contains an image map of the Internet information services in Hungary. Lists WWW servers by geographical location and type of organization. Contains lists of the Hungarian Gopher servers, public FTP servers, and Telnet services. Links to newsgroups, mailing lists, online catalogs, and other national home pages. Provides information about Hungarian history, geography, and cuisine. Describes many of Hungary's cities, towns, and villages. Offers access to an Hungarian-English and English-Hungarian dictionary.

Hungarian Internet Resources (http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelplang/hungarian/hunglinks/hungarianlinks.html)
The British Library's portal page for Hungary.

Hungarian Internet Yellow Pages (http://www.yellowpages.hu)
Online business directory. In English and Hungarian.

Hungarian Public FTP Servers (http://www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/ftp.html)
This page is maintained by the Hungarian Home Page, at the Budapest University of Technology.

Hungary.Network (http://www.heureka.hu)
Contains Hureka, a search engine for Hungarian sites, HuDir, a menu of Hungarian sites by subject, and KiKi, a directory of personal email addresses and homepages in Hungary. In Hungarian, with some English.with annotations.

Hungary.ORG (http://hungary.org/hungary/)
Hungarian Cultural and Information Center. Provides free email and current information about Hungary.

Index.HU (http://index.hu)
Provides a search engine for the Hungarian Web, plus news and business news. Links to Hungarian radio stations and a currency converter. In Hungarian.

Internet Resources on Hungary (http://www.ssees.ac.uk/hungary.htm)
Maintained by library and academic staff of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Startlap (http://www.startlap.hu)
A comprehensive menu of the popular Web in Hungary. In Hungarian.

Virtual Hungary (http://VirtualHungary.com)
A no-frills menu of links concerning tourism, business, and society.

Weblink.hu (http://www.weblink.hu)
Provides a comprehensive set of subject categories, each linking to a list of links. In Hungarian.

xpatloop.com (http://www.xpatloop.com)
Provides information and services for foreign citizens in Hungary who speak English, foreign citizens around the world who wish to stay informed about expat life in Hungary, and Hungarian citizens who wish to stay informed with English language information about expat life in Hungary.

Statistical Resources

Hungarian Central Statistical Office (http://portal.ksh.hu)
The official statistical agency of the Hungarian government. Provides basic demographic, economic, and other statistical information and reports. In English and Hungarian.

CIFP -- Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/)
The CIFP project goes far beyond just foreign policy, covering many aspects of government and society. It was initiated in 1997 by two Canadian institutions: the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs. The CIFP database includes over one hundred performance indicators for 196 countries, spanning 15 years for most indicators. The data are drawn from open sources, including UN offices, the World Bank, etc, and attempt to measure domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic diversity, demographic stress, economic performance, human development, environmental stress, and international linkages.

InfoNation - International Comparisons (http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/info.asp)
Maintained by the United Nations. Allows the user to select up to five countries and view a comparative statistical chart for them by clicking on one of the following: Overview; Economy, Environment, Health, and Technology. Each of those 5 categories includes several statistical indicators. 'Overview' includes demographic indicators.

Population Index on the Web (http://popindex.princeton.edu)
Population Index is a quarterly periodical which began in 1935. Each issue presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles and other materials on population topics. The Web site makes available a bibliographic database of the journal's contents from 1986 to 2000.

Sources of International Statistics on the Internet (http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/intstat.html)
An excellent, annotated portal for statistics in all fields. Its categories include: U.S. government sources; foreign countries; United Nations system; intergovernmental organizations; non-governmental organizations; academic sources; search engines & metasites. Many of these sites include statistics for Hungary. Maintained by the University of Maryland Libraries.

National Symbols

National Anthem of Hungary (http://www.national-anthems.net/HU/)
For each country's national anthem, the "National-anthems.net" Web site provides an audio file and the lyrics in the national language and in English. Links to additional sites which cover national anthems.

World Flag Database: Hungary (http://www.flags.net/country.php?country=HUNG&section=CURR)
The current Hungarian flag. Other countries' flags are available at the same site.