Greater Budapest
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Greater Budapest is the name of Budapest in its present, extended size, as it was accepted on December 15, 1949 and it came into force on January 1, 1950. By attaching 7 cities and 16 towns to the former Budapest, its area enlarged from 207 km² to 525 km² (154%), the number of its inhabitants increased from 1.05 million to 1.6 million (52%), and the number of the districts augmented from 14 to 22 (57%), thus becoming the seventh metropolis of Europe in its time.
The only difference between the 1950s' Greater Budapest and today's Budapest is that Soroksár, a part of District 20, voted for its independence in 1992, and in 1994 it became a separate District 23. The total area of Budapest remained the same.
