Budapest is the capital and largest city of Hungary. With nearly 1.7 million inhabitants, Budapest is the ninth-largest city in the European Union and the fifth-largest city in Central Europe, after Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg, and Warsaw.
According to the British market research company Euromonitor International, it is among the twenty most frequently visited cities in Europe by tourists. The unified municipality of Budapest was formed in 1873 by merging the previously independent cities of Buda (German: Ofen), Óbuda (Old Buda), both west of the Danube, and Pest east of the Danube.
The name Budapest itself did not appear before; the common usage was Pest-Buda. The Danube Riverbank, the Castle District, and Andrássy Avenue are now part of the UNESCO World Heritage.
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