Hajdúnánás
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Coordinates: 47°51′N 21°26′E / 47.850°N 21.433°E | |
Country | ![]() |
County | Hajdú-Bihar |
District | Hajdúnánás |
Government | |
• Mayor | Judit Bódi (Összefogás Hajdúnánásért) |
Area | |
• Total | 259.62 km2 (100.24 sq mi) |
Population (2015) | |
• Total | 17,172[1] |
• Density | 66.1/km2 (171/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | 4080 |
Area code | (+36) 52 |
Website | hajdunanas |
Hajdúnánás is a town in Hajdú-Bihar County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
It was formerly known as Nánás, with added prefix Hajdú from Hajduk.
Geography
It covers an area of 259.62 km2 (100 sq mi) and has a population of 17,172 people (2015).[1]
Racetrack
On 21 June 2020, the Magyar Nemzetkozi Motodrome was announced to be built near Hajdúnánás, at the centre of the Debrecen-Miskolc-Nyíregyháza triangle. This track would be suitable to host MotoGP, as well as Formula 1 races in the future.
Notable residents
- Zoltán Nagy, footballer
- József Mónus, world recorder archer
- Zoltán Csehi, footballer
- Annamária Bogdanović, handballer
- Ágnes Szilágyi, handballer
- Anita Kazai, handballer
- Valéria Szabó, handballer
- Tamás Kulcsár, footballer
- Anett Sopronyi, handballer
- R. Yisrael Efraim Fischel Schreiber (Sofer), Rabbi of Hajdúnánás and author the Afsei Aretz (1862)
- Gábor Tánczos, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1919)
- Viktória Rédei Soós, handballer
- István Spitzmüller, footballer
- Paul Ornstein, Hungarian-American psychoanalyst
- Béla Vihar, poet, journalist, writer, teacher
- Meinhart Maur, German film actor
- Imre Hódos, wrestler
- Henrietta Csiszár, footballer
Twin towns – sister cities
Hajdúnánás is twinned with:[2]
Piešťany, Slovakia
Ustroń, Poland
Valea lui Mihai, Romania
References
- ^ a b Gazetteer of Hungary, 1 January 2015. Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 3 September 2015
- ^ "Testvérvárosok". hajdunanas.hu (in Hungarian). Hajdúnánás. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hajdúnánás.
- Official website in Hungarian
47°51′N 21°26′E / 47.850°N 21.433°E