Are There Cultural Regions in Hungary?

• Main Author: PÉTER BENKŐ
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cluj University Press 2011-01-01
• Series: Romanian Review of Regional Studies
• Subjects: Cultural development; Education levels; Cinema attendance levels; Theatre attendance levels; Cultural macro-regions
• Online Access: http://rrrs.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/arhive/Artpdf/v7n12011/RRRS71201104.pdf

Drawing up cultural macro-regions in Hungary is hardly possible as not even two of the highly developed mezo-regions are contacting, not speaking about forming a bloc; they rather constitute a mosaic on the country map. Those on medium cultural level make up two groups, while, though the ones with a low standard are mostly found along the Danube as a single bloc, they are isolated by Pest county, statistically grouped in one region with them, with a genuine cultural level far exceeding the low cluster. Consequently, it is only justified to speak about cultural regions in the sense that, on the whole, Dunántúl is on a higher standard than the eastern half of the country.