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Online maps, map collections, flags, climate, natural resources, environment. As about three million Hungarians reside in the countries surrounding Hungary, and many Hungarians in the United States have relatives in these countries, regional maps have been included as well. For information about maps and other geographical resources at the Library of Congress, please consult its Geography and Map Reading Room.
General Resources
CNN Weather.com (http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp)
Find weather around the world.
Department of Cartography, Eötvös University (http://lazarus.elte.hu)
Provides information about the department and links to map sites in Hungary and orienteering sites worldwide. In English and Hungarian.
GEOnet Names Server (GNS) (http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/)
Perhaps the largest online gazetteer, this sophisticated database contains over 5 million place names world-wide. A pull-down menu allows searching by country. Records provide the name of each location or feature, variant spellings, latitude and longitude, and additional numeric data. Searches may focus on a variety of elements, such as populated place, administrative region, type of area, vegetation, and fresh- and saltwater features. Searches may also be limited to areas demarcated by two lines each of latitude and longitude. Maintained by the United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency, and Board on Geographic Names.
Global Gazetteer: Towns and
Cities in Hungary (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/HU/)
Information for over 20,000 cities and towns in Hungary, including maps, as well as other geographic and meteorological information.
JewishGen ShtetlSeeker
- Town Search (http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp)
Find any town or city in Eastern Europe. At the JewishGen site.
National Geographic (http://www.nationalgeographic.com)
Site of the world-famous magazine. Type "Hungary" into the search box.
World Climate.com (http://www.worldclimate.com)
Provides climate data for tens of thousands of cities and places around the world.
Maps--Historical
Gönczy County
Maps, circa 1910 (http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/vmlista.htm)
Large, colorful maps of the counties of historical Hungary. In Hungarian and English.
Historical Maps (http://www.akm.externet.hu/km/terkep/a19/index.htm)
Most of these maps are taken from the Atlas Regni Hungariae Portatilis, published in 1817. At the AKM (A Kultúr Market) site, which contains a variety of historical and cultural links. In Hungarian.
Maps--Present-day
(From the Perry-Casteneda Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin)
Austria (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/austria.html)
Croatia (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/croatia.html)
Hungary (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/hungary.html)
Romania (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/romania.html)
Serbia and Montenegro
(http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/serbia.html)
Slovakia (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe.html#S)
Slovenia (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe.html#S)
Ukraine (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ukraine.html)
Environment
Regional Environmental Center for Central and
Eastern Europe (http://www.rec.org)
This non-profit Budapest-based organization attempts to solve environmental problems in Central and Eastern Europe by encouraging cooperation among non-governmental organizations, governments and businesses, supporting the free exchange of information, and promoting public participation in environmental decision-making.
U.S. Department of Energy. Energy Information Administration. Country Analysis Brief: North Central Europe (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/czech.html)
Analysis about the production and consumption of natural energy resources of North Central Europe-including information on Hungary. Focuses on the various statistics of such natural energy resources as natural gas, oil, coal, nuclear power, and electric power. Includes statistics concerning the consumption of these resources as they affect the environment.
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