Name: 地理Now!ハンガリー (ニック・ウファス/ニッキペディア) (Geography Now! Hungary (ft. Nick Uhas/ Nickipedia))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:30:12.000Z
Duration: 11 min 39 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

Have you ever had a strange neighbor that moved into your block with no relatives around, had a weird accent

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and had weird decorations posted all over the yard? Yeah, that's basically Hungary.

Everybody say hi to my friend Nick! You may have recognized him as the charming scientist from America's Got Talent. Say hi, Nick.

So I knew Nick before all that stuff and I collabed with him on his Youtube channel - Nickipedia a while back.

Check it out, subscribe to his channel if you want.

What we did was really good, it was like micro to macro.

It was a really sciency concept, I thought it turned out great.

So, the cool thing is Nick is actually part hungarian. He's super proud of it.

He's been to Hungary, so today he's going to co-host with me.

Question: is there anything that I should know before we start?

Yeah, basically just don't be more likable than me or have better abs and you'll be fine.

Hey, Nick...Yeah?  Hungary is so eastern European, isn't it?

Yeah, they hate it when you say that and actually,

Hungary is a landlocked country located in Central Europe surrounded by 7 countries.

The nation is divided into 19 counties, whereas the capital Budapest acts as a separate administrative entity.

The largest cities are of course Budapest, Debrecen and Szeged.

However, the busiest airports are Budapest, Debrecen and Győr-Pér international.

Woah, you totally just took the animation narration.

Now, you know me, I love border disputes, anomalies and territorial confusion

and although today Hungary actually doesn't really have any of those,

the interesting thing is that Hungarians like to claim that they are surrounded by themselves

due to the fact that there are high concentrated areas of Hungarians that live outside of Hungary and neighbouring nations.

Hungary was like a lot bigger and had a kingdom that spanned all the way from the Croatian coast

to a large chunk of what is now western Romania.

After World War I, the Treaty of Trianon cut up

over 70% of the land previously held by Hungary and seated it to its neighboring states,

which effectively cut off about a third of ethnic Hungarians still living in those areas.

Some of the largest concentrations are found in what is today the southern regions of Slovakia

and Szekely peoples in central Transylvania regions of Romania.

By the way Nick, fun side note, the comedian Louis "C.K" is actually part Hungarian,

but the C.K. part isn't his initials, but the pronunciation derived from Szekely.

Otherwise the country is teeming with notable sights and landmarks such as St. Stephen's Basilica.

and the country's most iconic building, the Hungarian Parliament.

Nick, you've been to Hungary. What do you recommend?

The more we progress to this episode the more you're going to kind of see how

incredibly distinct and set apart Hungary is from the rest of Europe.

For one, most of the entire country lies on the Pannonian Basin,

and sometimes called the Great Hungarian Plain,

nestled between the Carpathian Mountains and the Dinaric alps and the Balkan mountains on every side.

So basically Hungary is a bowl. Yes, I know Hungary, bowl - the pun possibilities are endless,

No pun this time. Gulyás in the bowl of Hungary.

Only about 2% of the country, mostly in the north,

is at 300 or more meters above sea level and the rest is mostly flat

in the largest grassland in Europe, the Hortobágy.

Otherwise, the two main and largest rivers the Danube and the Tisza are like the lifelines of Hungary as they travel north to south.

Just to skip away the largest lake in all of Central Europe - Lake Balaton,

sometimes referred to as the Hungarian sea. A strange thing about Hungary though

it would have to be the geothermal springs that can be found everywhere.

Budapest have more thermal springs than any other capital in the world.

Tell them why there's hot springs in Hungary.

Sure. It's strange because there are no direct fault lines or rifts that pass through Hungary.

However, the area lies on a thermal basin not too far from the Eurasian plate that harbours geothermal activity

much like Yellowstone National Park in the US.

So what you're saying is you don't need to be on a fault line to have geothermal activity right?

But most distance spots from activity are not too far from a fault line. Nonetheless, is kind of like a "volcanic blister on Earth".

(I've learned something!) Otherwise the largest national park, Bükk, has eroded limestone karst formations

and nearby just to the west you can find the tallest mountain, Kekes, only about a 1000 m high.

Hungary has some the highest quality soil in all of Europe with over 51% arable land.

It allows them to grow a multitude of crops their favourite one being paprika or pepper.

Although popular all over the Balkans, paprika is always affiliated with Hungary and Hungarian cuisine -  they put it on

literally everything: chicken, fish, soup, sausage, even cake.

Speaking of which, some of the top Hungarian dishes might include:

Poppy seed rolls, stuffed cabbage and peppers, langos

Porkolt, Kürtoskalacs, sour cherry soup and the national dish everyone knows about - ‎Gulyás

commonly pronounced Goulash which I ate at every Christmas.

And keep in mind almost all these dishes we just mentioned have Paprika in them.

I was told you are not Hungarian unless you love Túró Rudi candy bars.

Mmm. Túró Rudi. You love those? Huge fan. Oh okay.

Now we reach the most strangest and most interesting part: the people

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