Budapest

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Budapest

Hungary

Budapest is the capital and largest city of Hungary. It is Hungary's primate city with 1.7 million inhabitants and its greater metro area has a population of about 3.3 million, representing one-third of the country's population and producing more than 40% of the country's economic output. Budapest is the political, economic, and cultural center of the country, among the ten largest cities in the European Union and the second largest urban area in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Country: Hungary
Population: 1,679,000
Latitude: 47.5° N
Longitude: 19.08° E

Which way is Budapest from…

From Paris, Budapest lies at 91° to the east, 1,247 km as the crow flies.

Paris	91° east	1,247 km
London	100° east	1,452 km
New York	49° north-east	7,010 km
Madrid	59° north-east	1,977 km
Rome	38° north-east	811 km
Montreal	51° north-east	6,642 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	336° north-west	8,427 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

On the Danube, Budapest lies east of London, at 100°, 1,452 km away. From Montreal, a flat map would put it due east, at 88°, but the compass says 51°, north-east. To place it, Bratislava is 163 km to the north-west; and, much further away, Ulaanbaatar sits on the same latitude.