A few lines on Hungary in general, at the end of this small treatise, will not seem misplaced.

Hungary, including Croatia-Slavonia and Fiume, covers 325,411 square kilometres. It borders on Austria, Romania, Servia, Bosnia, and the Adriatic Sea. Its population (census of 1910) amounts to 20,886,487 inhabitants, that is 64 per kilometre. It is a kingdom, with a parliamentary government.

Hungary, Croatia-Slavonia, and Fiume and its surroundings, are governed separately. Hungary itself is divided into 63 counties, called "comitats", and these are arranged in five groups.

Possessing only natural frontiers. Hungary offers an example of rare geographical unity. Its outlines form an ellipse with raised edges, formed by the Carpathians, a range of mountains which surround in a semi-circle, the low plains of Hungary, with a length of more than 2000 kilometres. Two transverse chains divide this basin into three parts: to the West, a plain called "the Little Hungarian Lowland", an ancient sea bed, with a surface of 12,000 kilometres; in the centre a plain called "the Great Hungarian Lowland", also an ancient sea bed, covering.100,000 kilometres; and lastly, at the extreme left, Transylvania, a varied plateau, studded with hills.

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Adapted from Illustrated Description of Hungary and its Capital