Editing Budapest (section)

== Districts ==
{{Main|List of districts in Budapest}}

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|colspan="5" bgcolor=""|{{center|'''Budapest's twenty-three districts overview'''}}
|- style="text-align:center; background:#dedebb;"
|colspan="2"|'''Administration'''
|'''Population'''
|colspan="2"|'''Area and Density'''
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|style="text-align:center;"|''District''||style="text-align:center;"|''Official name''||style="text-align:center;"|''Official 2013''||style="text-align:center;"|''Km<sup>2</sup>''||style="text-align:center;"|''People/km<sup>2</sup>''
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|'''I'''||[[Várkerület]]||24.528||3,41||7.233
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|'''II'''||[[2nd District of Budapest|Rózsadomb]]||88.011||36,34||2.426
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|'''III'''||[[Óbuda-Békásmegyer]]||123.889||39,69||3.117
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|'''IV'''||[[Újpest]]||99.050||18,82||5.227
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|'''V'''||[[Belváros-Lipótváros]]||27.342||2,59||10.534
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|'''VI'''||[[Terézváros]]||43.377||2,38||18.226
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|'''VII'''||[[Erzsébetváros]]||64.767||2,09||'''30.989'''
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|'''VIII'''||[[Józsefváros]]||85.173||6,85||11.890
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|'''IX'''||[[Ferencváros]]||63.697||12,53||4.859
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|'''X'''||[[Kőbánya]]||81.475||32,5||2.414
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|'''XI'''||[[Újbuda]]||'''145.510'''||33,47||4.313
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|'''XII'''||[[Hegyvidék]]||55.776||26,67||2.109
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|'''XIII'''||[[13th District of Budapest|Angyalföld,<br />Göncz Árpád városközpont,<br />Újlipótváros, Vizafogó]]||118.320||13,44||8.804
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|'''XIV'''||[[Zugló]]||123.786||18,15||6.820
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|'''XV'''||[[15th District of Budapest|Rákospalota, Pestújhely, Újpalota]]||79.779||26,95||2.988
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|'''XVI'''||[[16th district of Budapest|Árpádföld, Cinkota, Mátyásföld,<br />Sashalom, Rákosszentmihály]]||68.235||33,52||2.037
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|'''XVII'''||[[Rákosmente]]||78.537||'''54.83'''||1.418
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|'''XVIII'''||[[Pestszentlőrinc-Pestszentimre]]||94.663||38,61||2.414
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|'''XIX'''||[[Kispest]]||62.210||9,38||6.551
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|'''XX'''||[[Pesterzsébet]]||63.887||12,18||5.198
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|'''XXI'''||[[Csepel]]||76.976||25,75||2.963
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|'''XXII'''||[[Budafok-Tétény]]||51.071||34,25||1.473
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|'''XXIII'''||[[Soroksár]]||19.982||40,78||501
|- style="background:#ccc;"
|colspan="2" |{{center|[[File:Coa Hungary Town Budapest big.svg|21px]] '''City of Budapest'''}}||'''1,740,041'''||'''525.2'''||'''3,313.1'''
|- style="background:#ddd;"
|colspan="2" |{{center|[[Hungary]]}}||9,937,628||93,030||107.2
|- style= style="text-align:center;"
|colspan="5"|''Source: [[Eurostat]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-HA-11-001-01/EN/KS-HA-11-001-01-EN.PDF |title=Eurostat regional yearbook 2011 |access-date=5 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008013254/http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-HA-11-001-01/EN/KS-HA-11-001-01-EN.PDF |archive-date=8 October 2012}}</ref> [[Hungarian Central Statistical Office|HSCO]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/hnk/hnk_2012.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/hnk/hnk_2012.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |title=Gazetteer of Hungary, Hungarian Central Statistical Office, 2012 |access-date=2 October 2013}}</ref>
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Contemporary Budapest is divided into 23 districts ({{langx|hu|link=no|kerületek}}, {{singular}}: ''kerület''), each with a mayor and municipal government elected separately from the general municipal government. The districts and the general municipal government have [[Constitution of Hungary|constitutionally]] and legally defined, non-overlapping areas of competence. Each district has a municipally recognized name, some of which correspond to how locals call that area or neighborhood (e.g., [[Inner City (Budapest)|Belváros]], V. district; [[Terézváros]], VI. district), others which (e.g., [[Újbuda]], XI. district) are neologisms. Street signs display the district and that neighborhood's colloquial name. The latter are often the names of villages that were gradually annexed to the city (e.g., [[Sashalom]], [[Budafok]]) or of superseded administrative units of former boroughs.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.frommers.com/destinations/budapest/neighborhoods-in-brief#sthash.WyAc5THZ.dpbs |publisher=Frommer's Budapest |title=Neighborhoods in Brief |year=2011 |access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref>

After the unification of Buda, Pest, and Óbuda in 1873, Budapest initially had 10 districts. It was during the [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|interwar period]] that [[:hu:Szendy Károly|Károly Szendy]]'s 1934-1944 mayoral administration first seriously considered annexing peripheral towns and villages. This only came about, however, after the rise of [[Hungarian People's Republic|state communism in Hungary]]. In 1950, for reasons of social and industrial policy—including the [[Hungarian Working People's Party]]'s desire to [[proletarianization|proletarianize]] the traditionally right-wing suburbs—7 [[city with county rights|cities with county rights]] and 16 towns were annexed to the capital to form contemporary [[Greater Budapest]] ({{langx|hu|link=no|Nagy-Budapest}}).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sipos |first1=András |title=Nagy-Budapest létrehozásától Nagy-Budapest revíziójáig (1949–1956) |journal=Múltunk |date=2009 |volume=3 |pages=4–31 |url=https://www.multunk.hu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/siposa09-3.pdf |access-date=15 August 2024}}</ref> This reorganized the city into 22 districts, a number that grew to 23 after [[Soroksár]] seceded from [[Pesterzsébet]] in 1994. The contemporary city thus consists of 6 districts in Buda, 16 in Pest, and [[Csepel]]. Today, districts I., II., XI., and XII. in Buda and V., VI., VII., VIII., and IX. in Pest make up the city center in its broadest sense, corresponding roughly to the 1873 municipal boundaries.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.urbandivercities.eu/budapest/ |title=Urbandivercities.eu, Case study Budapest and Budapest's 8th district |year=2013 |access-date=5 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505231945/http://www.urbandivercities.eu/budapest/ |archive-date=5 May 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=http://geogr.elte.hu/TGF/TGF_Doktorik/eberenyitezisangol.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://geogr.elte.hu/TGF/TGF_Doktorik/eberenyitezisangol.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |first=Eszter B. |last=Berényi |location=Budapest |title=The transformation of historical city districts in inner city of Budapest (PhD dissertation) |year=2010 |access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref>

Budapest's districts are numbered according to three concentric semicircles. The I. district is a small area in central Buda, including the [[Castle Quarter (Budapest)|Castle Quarter]]. District II. is in Buda to the castle's northwest while district III. stretches along the northernmost part of Buda and includes the former Óbuda. District IV. continues this semicircle in northernmost Pest, but the V. district is in the very center of Pest and inaugurates a new circle that then loops back through Pest to Buda as the VI., VII., VIII., IX., XI., and XII. districts. Districts XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., XVII., XVIII., XIX., XX., XXI., and XXII. form yet another semicircle in outermost Pest. Districts X. and XXIII. form irregularities within the overall pattern.<ref>{{citation |url=http://epa.oszk.hu/02100/02120/00030/pdf/ORSZ_BPTM_TBM_30_337.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://epa.oszk.hu/02100/02120/00030/pdf/ORSZ_BPTM_TBM_30_337.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |location=Budapest |title=After a local referendum, Soroksár became an independent district. (Egy helyi népszavazást követően Soroksár 1994-ben vált önálló kerületté.) |access-date=6 July 2017}}</ref>

[[File:Hungary budapest districts.svg|center|360px]]