Editing Hungary (section)

== Geography ==
{{Main|Geography of Hungary|Climate of Hungary}}
{{See also|List of national parks of Hungary}}
[[File:Hungary-geographic map-en.svg|thumb|Geographic map of Hungary]]
Hungary is a [[landlocked country]]. Its geography has traditionally been defined by its two main waterways, the [[Danube]] and [[Tisza]] rivers. The common tripartite division—''Dunántúl'' ("beyond the Danube", [[Transdanubia]]), ''[[Tiszántúl]]'' ("beyond the Tisza"), and ''Duna–Tisza köze'' ("between the Danube and Tisza")—is a reflection of this. The Danube flows north–south through the centre of contemporary Hungary, and the entire country lies within its [[drainage basin]].

Transdanubia, which stretches westward from the centre of the country towards Austria, is a primarily hilly region with a terrain varied by low mountains. These include the very eastern stretch of the [[Alps]], ''[[Alpokalja]]'', in the west of the country, the [[Transdanubian Mountains]] in the central region of Transdanubia, and the [[Mecsek]] Mountains and [[Villány Mountains]] in the south. The highest point of the area is the Írott-kő in the Alps, at {{convert|882|m|0}}. The [[Little Hungarian Plain]] (''Kisalföld'') is found in northern Transdanubia. [[Lake Balaton]] and [[Lake Hévíz]], the largest lake in Central Europe and the largest thermal lake in the world, respectively, are in Transdanubia as well.
[[File:Balaton Hungary Landscape.jpg|thumb|[[Lake Balaton]]]]
The ''Duna–Tisza köze'' and ''Tiszántúl'' are characterised mainly by the [[Great Hungarian Plain]] (''Alföld''), which stretches across most of the eastern and southeastern areas of the country. To the north of the plain are the foothills of the [[Carpathian Mountains|Carpathians]] in a wide band near the [[Slovakia]]n border. The [[Kékes]] at {{convert|1014|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} is the tallest mountain in Hungary and is found there.

[[Phytogeography|Phytogeographically]], Hungary belongs to the Central European province of the [[Circumboreal Region]] within the [[Boreal Kingdom]]. According to the [[World Wide Fund for Nature|WWF]], the territory of Hungary belongs to the terrestrial ecoregion of [[Pannonian mixed forests]].<ref name="DinersteinOlson2017">{{cite journal|last1=Dinerstein|first1=Eric|last2=Olson|first2=David|last3=Joshi|first3=Anup|last4=Vynne|first4=Carly|last5=Burgess|first5=Neil D.|last6=Wikramanayake|first6=Eric|last7=Hahn|first7=Nathan|last8=Palminteri|first8=Suzanne|last9=Hedao|first9=Prashant|last10=Noss|first10=Reed|last11=Hansen|first11=Matt|last12=Locke|first12=Harvey|last13=Ellis|first13=Erle C|last14=Jones|first14=Benjamin|last15=Barber|first15=Charles Victor|last16=Hayes|first16=Randy|last17=Kormos|first17=Cyril|last18=Martin|first18=Vance|last19=Crist|first19=Eileen|last20=Sechrest|first20=Wes|last21=Price|first21=Lori|last22=Baillie|first22=Jonathan E. M.|last23=Weeden|first23=Don|last24=Suckling|first24=Kierán|last25=Davis|first25=Crystal|last26=Sizer|first26=Nigel|last27=Moore|first27=Rebecca|last28=Thau|first28=David|last29=Birch|first29=Tanya|last30=Potapov|first30=Peter|last31=Turubanova|first31=Svetlana|last32=Tyukavina|first32=Alexandra|last33=de Souza|first33=Nadia|last34=Pintea|first34=Lilian|last35=Brito|first35=José C.|last36=Llewellyn|first36=Othman A.|last37=Miller|first37=Anthony G.|last38=Patzelt|first38=Annette|last39=Ghazanfar|first39=Shahina A.|last40=Timberlake|first40=Jonathan|last41=Klöser|first41=Heinz|last42=Shennan-Farpón|first42=Yara|last43=Kindt|first43=Roeland|last44=Lillesø|first44=Jens-Peter Barnekow|last45=van Breugel|first45=Paulo|last46=Graudal|first46=Lars|last47=Voge|first47=Maianna|last48=Al-Shammari|first48=Khalaf F.|last49=Saleem|first49=Muhammad|title=An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm|journal=BioScience|volume=67|issue=6|year=2017|pages=534–545|issn=0006-3568|doi=10.1093/biosci/bix014|pmid=28608869|pmc=5451287|doi-access=free}}</ref>

=== Climate ===
Hungary has a [[Temperate climate|temperate seasonal climate]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.climate-data.org/europe/hungary-20/|title=Hungary climate: Average Temperature, weather by month, Hungary weather averages|work=Climate-Data.org|access-date=21 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Andrew Speedy|url=http://www.fao.org/ag/agp/agpc/doc/Counprof/Hungary/hungary.htm|title=Hungary|work=Fao.org|access-date=21 November 2008|archive-date=4 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204115841/http://www.fao.org/ag/agp/agpc/doc/Counprof/Hungary/hungary.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> with generally warm summers with low overall humidity levels but frequent rain showers and cold snowy winters. Average annual temperature is {{convert|9.7|°C|°F}}. Temperature extremes are {{convert|41.9|°C|°F|1}} on 20 July 2007 at [[Kiskunhalas]] in the summer and {{convert|-35|°C|°F|1}} on 16 February 1940 at [[Miskolc]] in the winter. Average high temperature in the summer is {{convert|23|to|28|°C|°F}} and average low temperature in the winter is {{convert|-3|to|-7|°C|°F}}. The average yearly rainfall is approximately {{convert|600|mm|in|1|abbr=on}}. <!--
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The relative isolation of the Carpathian Basin makes it susceptible to droughts and the [[effects of global warming]] have already been felt. According to popular opinion and many scientists, the country became drier in recent decades, as droughts have become quite common. Summers became hotter and winters became milder. For these reasons, snow has become much rarer than before. Popular opinion also states that the four-season system became a two-season system as spring and autumn are getting shorter and shorter, even vanishing some years. This supposed tendency unexpectedly was reversed in 2006 when Hungary's two main rivers, the [[Danube]] and the [[Tisza]], flooded at the same time. It made hundreds of homes uninhabitable despite the hard work of the defenders who reinforced most sections of the rivers with sandbags (with the help of university students and the army of Hungary ("Honvédség")).

Most of Hungary is covered by agricultural plains; there are but few remnants of its original forests, mainly in the mountain regions and national parks. -->