Passport/Visa Requirements: Passports are needed by citizens of Canada and the U.S. Visas are required for stays longer than 90 days. Reconfirm travel document information with your carrier before departure.
Population: 9,981,334.
Languages: Hungarian (Magyar)..
Predominant Religions: Christian (Roman Catholic, Protestant)..
Time Zone: 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (+1 GMT). Daylight Saving Time is observed from the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October.
Voltage Requirements: 220 volts.
Telephone Codes: 36, country code; 1,city code for Budapest;
For More Information
Tourist OfficesCanada: Contact the office in the U.S.
U.S.: Hungarian National Tourist Office, 150 E. 58th St., 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10155-3398. Phone 212-355-0240. Fax 212-207-4103. http://www.gotohungary.com.
Hungarian Embassies
Canada: Embassy of Hungary, 299 Waverly St., Ottawa, ON K2P 0V9. Phone 613-230-2717. Fax 613-230-7560. There are consulates in Montreal and Toronto.
U.S.: Embassy of Hungary, 3910 Shoemaker St. N.W., Washington, DC 20008. Phone 202-362-6730. Fax 202-966-8135. There are consulates in Los Angeles and New York.
Foreign Embassies in Hungary
Canadian Embassy, Zugligeti Ut 51-53, 1121 Budapest. Phone 392-3360. Fax 392-3390.
U.S. Embassy, V. Szabadsag Ter 12, 1054 Budapest. Phone 475-4400. Fax 475-4764.
Additional Reading
Book of Memories by Peter Nadas (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). A complex, dazzling epic about a young Hungarian writer's struggle against Soviet oppression.
Jewish Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History edited by Geza Komoroczy (Central European University Press). A scholarly yet fascinatingly detailed walk through 700 years of Jewish history, culture and religion paralleled with the development of the city of Budapest. A must-read for anyone exploring Jewish identity in Hungary.
Memoir of Hungary: 1944-1948 by Sandor Marai (Central European Unviersity Press). A diary-style critique of the political and social upheaval witnessed by the author of the U.S. bestseller Embers.
Fateless by Imre Kertesz (Northwestern University Press). Kertesz, the 2002 Nobel Prize winner, is a concentration-camp survivor. This novel traces a Hungarian Jewish teenager's imprisonment in German concentration camps and his attempt to begin a new life after the war.
Andras Torok's Budapest: A Critical Guide (Corvina). Torok, a former dissident who is now president of the National Cultural Fund, has a unique voice in this must-use guide for anyone wanting to discover the stories behind Budapest's monuments and buildings.
