Hungary

The country calling code for Hungary is +36. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Hungary number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Hungary is assigned HU as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and HUN as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Hungary is .hu. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Hungary is the Hungarian forint, with the ISO 4217 code HUF and the symbol Ft. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Hungary are quoted in HUF. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Hungary is +01:00, currently UTC+01:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Hungary is Budapest. Hungary sits in Europe, specifically the Central Europe subregion. Its approximate centre point is 47.00000000, 20.00000000. Traffic in Hungary drives on the right. Languages recorded for Hungary: Hungarian.

Hungary shares a land border with 7 countries: Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.