Hajdúnánás is a
town
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city.
The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
in
Hajdú-Bihar County, in the
Northern Great Plain
The Northern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Be ...
region
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of eastern
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
.
Geography
It covers an
area
Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-di ...
of and has a
population
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of 17,172 people (2015).
Racetrack
On 21 June 2020, the
Magyar Nemzetkozi Motodrome was announced to be built near Hajdúnánás, at the centre of the
Debrecen
Debrecen ( ; ; ; ) is Hungary's cities of Hungary, second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain Regions of Hungary, region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County. A city with county rights, it was the large ...
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Miskolc
Miskolc ( , ; ; Czech language, Czech and ; ; ; ) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry. With a population of 161,265 as of 1 January 2014, Miskolc is the List of cities and towns in Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, ...
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Nyíregyháza
Nyíregyháza (, ) is a city with county rights in northeastern Hungary and the county capital of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. With a population of 118,001, it is the seventh-largest city in Hungary and the second largest in the Northern Great ...
triangle. This track would be suitable to host
MotoGP
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, as well as
Formula 1
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races in the future.
Notable residents
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Zoltán Nagy, footballer
* József Mónus, world recorder archer
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Zoltán Csehi, footballer
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Annamária Bogdanović, handballer
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Ágnes Szilágyi, handballer
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Anita Kazai, handballer
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Valéria Szabó, handballer
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Tamás Kulcsár, footballer
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Anett Sopronyi, handballer
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R. Yisrael Efraim Fischel Schreiber (Sofer), Rabbi of Hajdúnánás and author the Afsei Aretz (1862)
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Gábor Tánczos, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1919)
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Viktória Rédei Soós, handballer
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István Spitzmüller, footballer
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Paul Ornstein, Hungarian-American psychoanalyst
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Béla Vihar, poet, journalist, writer, teacher
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Meinhart Maur, German film actor
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Imre Hódos
Imre Hódos (January 10, 1928 – April 23, 1989) was a Hungary, Hungarian wrestling, wrestler who was born in Hajdúnánás and died in Debrecen. He was an Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Olympics
Hódos competed at the 1952 ...
, wrestler
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Henrietta Csiszár, footballer
Twin towns – sister cities
Hajdúnánás is
twinned with:
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Piešťany
Piešťany (; , , , ) is a town in Slovakia. It is located in the western part of the country within the Trnava Region and is the seat of its Piešťany District, own district. It is the biggest and best known spa town in Slovakia and has around ...
, Slovakia
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Ustroń, Poland
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Valea lui Mihai
Valea lui Mihai (; ) is a town in Bihor County, Crișana, Romania.
Geography
The town is located at the northern tip of Bihor County, around north-east of the county seat, Oradea, on the border with Hungary. It is crossed by national road (on ...
, Romania
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Populated places in Hajdú-Bihar County
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