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Budapest

Budapest ranks 10th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Chicago, Vienna, and Berlin. Memorable people born in Budapest include Ferenc Puskás, George Soros, and John von Neumann. Memorable people who died in Budapest include Ferenc Puskás, Imre Kertész, and Imre Nagy. Budapest has been the birth place of many athletes, and soccer players and the death place of many soccer players, and politicians. Budapest is located in Hungary.

Budapest is the capital, most populous city. It is Hungary's primate city with 1.7 million inhabitants and its greater metro area has a population of about 3.3 million, representing one-third of the country's population and producing above 40% of the country's economic output. Budapest is the political, economic, and cultural center of the country, among the ten largest cities in the European Union and the second largest urban area in Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest stands on the River Danube and is strategically located at the center of the Pannonian Basin, lying on ancient trade routes linking the hills of Transdanubia with the Great Plain. Read more on Wikipedia