Hungarian Origin Place Names

This is a list of place names in which the origin is Hungarian. Hungarian is the Uralic language spoken in Hungary.

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Becske (Settlement) Hungarian
Possibly derived from the Hungarian given name Benedek. This is the name of a small town in Hungary.

Buda (Settlement) Hungarian
Possibly from the given name Bleda (which belonged to the brother of Attila the Hun). This was the name of a Hungarian city on the west bank of the Danube. Today it is a part of Budapest, having merged with Pest in 1873.

Budapest (Settlement) Hungarian, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
Combination of Buda and Pest, two cities that merged in 1873. This is the name of the capital city of Hungary.

Csehország (Country) Hungarian
Hungarian form of Čechy, used to refer both to the region of Bohemia and the larger Czech Republic.

Macaristan (Country) Turkish
Turkish form of Majarestan.

Mađarska (Country) Croatian, Serbian
Croatian and Serbian form of Magyarország.

Maďarsko (Country) Czech, Slovak
Czech and Slovak form of Magyarország.

Magyarország (Country) Hungarian
Hungarian name for the country of Hungary, derived from magyar meaning "Hungarian" and ország meaning "country". Magyar itself is derived from a combination of two Uralic roots both meaning "man".

Majar (Country) Arabic
Arabic form of magyar (see Magyarország). It is usually written with the definite article: المجر (al-Majar).

Majarestan (Country) Persian
From Persian مجار (majar) meaning "Hungarian" combined with the suffix ستان (stan) meaning "land of". This is the Persian name for Hungary.

Pest (Settlement) Hungarian
Possibly from a Slavic word meaning "cave". This was the name of a city on the east bank of the Danube in Hungary. After a bridge was built across the river in 1849, Pest merged with Buda to form Budapest in 1873.

Sárköz (Region) Hungarian
Derived from Hungarian sár "mud" and köz "margin, lane". This is the name of a region in Hungary.

Skócia (Country) Hungarian
Hungarian form of Scotland.

Szabolcs (Settlement & Region) Hungarian
From the given name Szabolcs. This is the name of a town and a region in Hungary.

Szlovákia (Country) Hungarian
Hungarian form of Slovakia.