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Introduction

Hungary is a state of Europe, member of the European Union, the OTAN, the OCDE, the Visegrád group and the Schengen´s agreement. Its official language is the hungarian and it borders with Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria. Its capital is Budapest, and it´s also, the largest city in the state.

The political system in hungary is a liberal parliamentary democracy where the power of the state is owned by its citizens through the main government body, the parliament.



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