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This is a list of the most populous urban areas in Hungary, based on official data of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Methodology

The functional urban areas identified with the methodology described in the book Redefining “urban”: A new way to measure metropolitan areas (OECD Publishing, 2012) are here listed by size, according to four different classes:^[1]

Small urban areas (population between 50,000 and 200,000)
Medium-sized urban areas (population between 200,000 and 500,000)
Metropolitan areas (population between 500,000 and 1.5 million)
Large metropolitan areas (population above 1.5 million)

List of most populous urban areas

Rank	Functional urban area^[2]	Class-type (according to OECD)	Population (2000, OECD)^[3]	Population (2011, OECD)^[4]	Population (2018, Eurostat)^[5]	Major subdivisions
1	Budapest	Large metropolitan area	2,786,150	2,909,375	2,978,067	Budapest, Érd, Dunakeszi, Szigetszentmiklós, Vác, Gödöllő, Budaörs, Szentendre
2	Debrecen	Medium-sized urban area	312,464	336,639	326,626	Debrecen
3	Miskolc	Medium-sized urban area	329,618	305,463	287,287	Miskolc
4	Székesfehérvár	Medium-sized urban area	267,540	276,541	270,835	Székesfehérvár
5	Győr	Medium-sized urban area	244,098	243,874	251,317	Győr
6	Pécs	Medium-sized urban area	274,112	263,804	247,720	Pécs, Komló
7	Szeged	Medium-sized urban area	236,262	249,790	242,013	Szeged
8	Nyíregyháza	Medium-sized urban area	237,770	240,690	235,449	Nyíregyháza
9	Kecskemét	Small urban area	147,504	187,608	186,782	Kecskemét
10	Szombathely	Small urban area	134,602	149,639	147,933	Szombathely
TOTAL