Little Hungarian Plain
Little Hungarian Plain | |
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Location | Eastern Austria, Western Hungary, South-western Slovakia |
Territory | 8,000 km2 |
Highest point | ? |
Lowest point | The Danube |
Terrain | plain |
The Little Hungarian Plain or Little Alföld (
Geography
Its borders are the
The plain is roughly cut in half by the
Smaller microregions of the Little Alföld are Hanság, Seewinkel, Neusiedl Basin, Rábaköz, Szigetköz, Marcal Basin, Moson Plain, Komárom-Esztergom Plain and Žitný ostrov.
The neighbouring regions of Kemeneshát, Sopron-Vas Plain and Steirisches Hügelland are sometimes classified as belonging to the Little Alföld, but Hungarian and Austrian geographers use the term in a more narrow meaning.
History
The plain has been an important area of agriculture since the Neolithic Age. The southern part of it belonged to the Roman province of
Population
Country borders don't closely follow linguistic boundaries, especially in the case of the northern part of the plain where Hungarians are a majority in the two southernmost districts Dunajská Streda and Komárno and a minority in the remaining districts. There are also smaller groups of Croats in the tri-state border region. Important cities in the region are Győr (HU), Komárom (HU), Komárno (SK), Dunajská Streda (SK), Nové Zámky (SK), and Mosonmagyaróvár (HU).
See also
- Great Alföld
- Sedimentary basin
- Lowland