Geographic Distribution
| Country | Speakers |
|---|---|
| Hungary | 10,177,223 (2001 census) |
| Romania |
1,443,970 (census 2002) |
| Slovakia | 520,528 (census 2001) |
| Serbia |
293,299 (census 2002) |
| Ukraine |
149,400 (census 2001) |
| United States | 117,973 (census 2000) |
| Canada | 75,555 (census 2001) |
| Israel | 70,000 |
| Austria |
22,000 |
| Croatia | 16,500 |
| Slovenia |
9,240 |
| Total | 12-13 million (in Carpathian Basin) |
- Source: National censuses, Ethnologue
Hungarian has about 14-15 million native speakers, of whom nearly 10 million live in present-day Hungary. About 2.5 million speakers live in areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon (1920). Of these, the largest group lives in Transylvania, the western half of present-day Romania, where there are approximately 1.4 million Hungarians. There are large Hungarian communities also in Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine, and Hungarians can also be found in Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia, as well as about a million additional people scattered in other parts of the world. For example, there are more than one hundred thousand Hungarian speakers in the Hungarian American community and 1.5 million with Hungarian ancestry in the United States.
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