Vác is a thousand-year old city in Pest county in Hungary with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The archaic spelling of the name is Vácz.
Image: Vác Székesegyház 20090725
Image: Római katolikus templom, volt ferences templom (7507. számú műemlék)
Image: Középkori pince (7555. számú műemlék)
Image: Hegyes torony
Pest is a county (vármegye) in central Hungary. It covers an area of 6,393.14 square kilometres (2,468.41 sq mi), and has a population of 1,339,090 (2023). It surrounds the national capital Budapest and the majority of the county's population live in the suburbs of Budapest. It shares borders with Slovakia and the Hungarian counties Nógrád, Heves, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Bács-Kiskun, Fejér, and Komárom-Esztergom. The River Danube flows through the county. The capital of Pest County is Budapest, although Budapest is not part of Pest County. Starting 2018, they also constitute different NUTS:HU level 2 regions, as previously Pest County has lost catch-up aids from the European Union because of the high development of Budapest.
Image: Nagybörzsöny, Hungary panoramio Kaszás Tibor (1)
Image: A landscape in Pest county near Vac
Image: Kemence, Hungary panoramio Kaszás Tibor (4)
View of Szentendre
