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==Counties and regions==
[[Image:HU NUTS 3.png|thumb|left|300px|Counties of Hungary in 2007]]
[[Image:HU NUTS 2.png|thumb|left|300px|Regions of Hungary]]
{{main|Counties of Hungary|Regions of Hungary}}
: ''See also [[Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary|List of historic counties of Hungary]]''
Administratively, Hungary is divided into [[Counties of Hungary|nineteen counties]]. The [[Capitals of Hungary|capital city]] (''főváros''), [[Budapest]], is independent of any county government. The counties and the capital are the twenty [[Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics|NUTS]] third-level units of Hungary.
Since 1996, these twenty administrative units have been grouped into seven [[Regions of Hungary|regions]] for statistical and development purposes. These seven regions constitute NUTS' second-level units of Hungary.
There are also twenty-three towns with county rights (singular ''megyei jogú város''), sometimes known as "urban counties" in English (although there is no such term in Hungarian). The local authorities of these towns have extended powers, but these towns belong to the territory of the respective county instead of being independent territorial units.
<table border="0"><tr><th>Counties (County Capital)</th><th>Regions</th></tr>
<tr><td>
* [[Bács-Kiskun]] ([[Kecskemét]])
* [[Baranya]] ([[Pécs]])
* [[Békés (county)|Békés]] ([[Békéscsaba]])
* [[Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén]] ([[Miskolc]])
* [[Csongrád (county)|Csongrád]] ([[Szeged]])
* [[Fejér]] ([[Székesfehérvár]])
* [[Győr-Moson-Sopron]] ([[Győr]])
* [[Hajdú-Bihar]] ([[Debrecen]])
* [[Heves (county)|Heves]] ([[Eger]])
* [[Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok]] ([[Szolnok]])
* [[Komárom-Esztergom]] ([[Tatabánya]])
* [[Nógrád (county)|Nógrád]] ([[Salgótarján]])
* [[Pest (county)|Pest]] ([[Budapest]])
* [[Somogy]] ([[Kaposvár]])
* [[Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg]] ([[Nyíregyháza]])
* [[Tolna (county)|Tolna]] ([[Szekszárd]])
* [[Vas]] ([[Szombathely]])
* [[Veszprém (county)|Veszprém]] ([[Veszprém]])
* [[Zala]] ([[Zalaegerszeg]])
* [[Budapest]], capital city
</td><td valign="top">
* [[Western Transdanubia]]
* [[Southern Transdanubia]]
* [[Central Transdanubia]]
* [[Central Hungary]]
* [[Northern Hungary]]
* [[Northern Great Plain]]
* [[Southern Great Plain]]
</td>
</td></tr></table>