Little Hungarian Plain

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Little Hungarian Plain
Landscape in Győr-Moson-Sopron
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 (

which covers most parts of Hungary.

Geography

Eszterházy family

. Such buildings are typical in the area

Its borders are the

.

The plain is roughly cut in half by the

rivers.

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

47°45′N 17°20′E / 47.750°N 17.333°E / 47.750; 17.333