Flag of Hungary
Europe
Quick Facts
- Capital
- Budapest
- Flag adopted
- 1957
- Population
- 9,539,502
- Area
- 93,028 km²
- Languages
- Hungarian
- Currency
- Hungarian forint (Ft) — HUF
- Demonym
- Hungarian
- Government
- parliamentary republic
- Subregion
- Central Europe
- Driving side
- Right
- Timezones
- UTC+01:00
- Independence
- 1918
Religions
- Unspecified 40.1%
- Roman Catholic 30.1%
- None 16.1%
- Calvinist 9.8%
- Lutheran 1.8%
- Protestant 1.6%
- Other 0.4%
About This Flag
The flag of Hungary consists of three equal horizontal bands of red on top, white in the middle, and green on the bottom. The red represents strength and courage, the white symbolizes faithfulness and fidelity, and the green stands for hope and the fertile Hungarian plains.
The tricolor has its origins in the reformist movements of the early 19th century and was prominently used during the 1848 Hungarian Revolution against Habsburg rule. The current flag without any coat of arms was adopted on October 1, 1957, after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, when the communist coat of arms was removed — during the uprising, revolutionaries famously cut the Soviet-imposed emblem out of the center of the flag.
What the colors & design mean
Red represents strength, courage, and the blood shed for Hungarian freedom. White symbolizes faithfulness, fidelity, and truth. Green stands for hope, the fertile plains of the Carpathian Basin, and the Hungarian people's connection to their land.
Pattern: Horizontal Stripes
Bordering countries (7)
Fun Facts
- During the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against Soviet rule, protesters cut the communist coat of arms out of the center of the flag, creating a flag with a distinctive hole that became one of the most iconic images of Cold War resistance.
- Hungary's flag is identical in color arrangement to Italy's flag rotated 90 degrees — Italy's green-white-red is vertical while Hungary's red-white-green is horizontal.
- The Hungarian tricolor was first used during the 1848 revolution led by Lajos Kossuth against the Habsburg Empire, making it a symbol of both national identity and democratic aspiration.
- Hungary's parliament building in Budapest, built in 1902, is the third-largest parliament building in the world and faces the Danube River that divides the capital into Buda and Pest.
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