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City with county rights
Extracted from the Wikipedia article City with county rights (Hungary).
A city with county rights (or urban county, Hungarian: megyei jogú város, MJV) is a level of administrative subdivision in Hungary. Since 1994, all county seats have been automatically awarded this status, which was the only method between 2012–2022 allowing a city to earn county rights. All cities that earned this status before 2012 have retained it; there is no way to revoke the status by law. From 2006 until 2022, there were 23 cities with county rights, and there have been 25 since 1 May 2022. Before 1950, cities with former "municipal rights" (törvényhatósági jogú város) had a similar status as the present urban counties.