title: List of urban areas in Hungary
text: # List of urban areas in Hungary
  
  This is a list of the most populous urban areas in Hungary, based on official data of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
  
  ## Methodology
  
  The functional urban areas identified with the methodology described in the book Redefining “urban”: A new way to measure metropolitan areas (OECD Publishing, 2012) are here listed by size, according to four different classes:
  
  * Small urban areas (population between 50,000 and 200,000)
  * Medium-sized urban areas (population between 200,000 and 500,000)
  * Metropolitan areas (population between 500,000 and 1.5 million)
  * Large metropolitan areas (population above 1.5 million)
  
  ## List of most populous urban areas
  
  | Rank | Functional urban area | Class-type (according to OECD) | Population (2000, OECD) | Population (2011, OECD) | Population (2018, Eurostat) | Major subdivisions |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Budapest | Large metropolitan area | 2,786,150 | 2,909,375 | 2,978,067 | Budapest, Érd, Dunakeszi, Szigetszentmiklós, Vác, Gödöllő, Budaörs, Szentendre |
  | 2 | Debrecen | Medium-sized urban area | 312,464 | 336,639 | 326,626 | Debrecen |
  | 3 | Miskolc | Medium-sized urban area | 329,618 | 305,463 | 287,287 | Miskolc |
  | 4 | Székesfehérvár | Medium-sized urban area | 267,540 | 276,541 | 270,835 | Székesfehérvár |
  | 5 | Győr | Medium-sized urban area | 244,098 | 243,874 | 251,317 | Győr |
  | 6 | Pécs | Medium-sized urban area | 274,112 | 263,804 | 247,720 | Pécs, Komló |
  | 7 | Szeged | Medium-sized urban area | 236,262 | 249,790 | 242,013 | Szeged |
  | 8 | Nyíregyháza | Medium-sized urban area | 237,770 | 240,690 | 235,449 | Nyíregyháza |
  | 9 | Kecskemét | Small urban area | 147,504 | 187,608 | 186,782 | Kecskemét |
  | 10 | Szombathely | Small urban area | 134,602 | 149,639 | 147,933 | Szombathely |
  | TOTAL | | | | | |
  