Hajdúnánás
Hajdúnánás is a town in Hajdú-Bihar County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
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| Coordinates: 47°51′N 21°26′E | |
| Country |  Hungary |
| County | Hajdú-Bihar |
| District | Hajdúnánás |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Tibor Szólláth (Fidesz-KDNP) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 259.62 km2 (100.24 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 17,172[1] |
| • Density | 66.1/km2 (171/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 4080 |
| Area code | (+36) 52 |
| Website | hajdunanas |
Geography
It covers an area of 259.62 km2 (100 sq mi) and has a population of 17,172 people (2015).[1]
Racetrack
On 21 June 2020, it was confirmed that Hungary will build a new modern, multifunctional and economically operable racetrack near Hajdúnánás, at the centre of the Debrecen-Miskolc-Nyíregyháza triangle, in the north-eastern part of the country. This track would be suitable to host MotoGP, as well as Formula 1 races in the future.
Notable residents
- Zoltán Nagy, footballer
- József Mónus, world recorder archer
- Zoltán Csehi, footballer
- Annamária Bogdanović, handballer
- Ágnes Szilágyi, handballer
- Anita Kazai, handballer
- Valéria Szabó, handballer
- Tamás Kulcsár, footballer
- Anett Sopronyi, handballer
- R. Yisrael Efraim Fischel Schreiber (Sofer), Rabbi of Hajdúnánás and author the Afsei Aretz (1862)
- Gábor Tánczos, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1919)
- Viktória Rédei Soós, handballer
- István Spitzmüller, footballer
- Paul Ornstein, Hungarian-American psychoanalyst
- Béla Vihar, poet, journalist, writer, teacher
- Meinhart Maur, German film actor
- Imre Hódos, wrestler
- Henrietta Csiszár, footballer
Twin towns – sister cities
Hajdúnánás is twinned with:[2]
Piešťany, Slovakia
Ustroń, Poland
Valea lui Mihai, Romania
References
- Gazetteer of Hungary, 1 January 2015. Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 3 September 2015
- "Testvérvárosok". hajdunanas.hu (in Hungarian). Hajdúnánás. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hajdúnánás.
- Official website in Hungarian
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