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 AREA AND POPULATION

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Area and Population.

I. — PkOGRKSS and PuKSKNT C )NDITI0N.

The Hungarian dominions, including Croatia and Slavonia, have an area of 322,310 square kilometres, or 125,039 English s(juare miles, with a popula- tion at the census of December 31, 1890 of 17,463,791, or 140 per square mile.

At the last throe census enumerations the civil population was as follows: —

Year

Population Absolute increase

Yearly increase per cent.

1869 1880 1890

15,417,327 1,648,814 15,642,102 224,775.

17,349,398 1,707,196

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0-91 013 1-09

The following table gives the area and total number of inhabitants, civil and military, of Hungary, after the census returns of December 31, 1880 and 1.S90:—

Provinces

Area: English square

miles

Dec. 31,

1880

13,728,622

20,981

1,892,499

Pop'ilation, Dec. 31, l.>-90

Popula-

fion ))ev

sq. mile,

1890

Male

Female.

Total

Hungary Proper Town of Fiunie. Croatia and Slavonia.

Hungary.

Pop. in active military service.

Total.

108,258

8

16,773

7,449,979

14,048

1,089,755

7,683,515

15,446

1.096,6.55

15,1.33,494

29,494

2,186,410

140

3,687

130

125,039 12.'.,039

15,642,102 97,273

15,739,375

8,553,782 114,393

8,668,175

8,795,616

17,349,398 114;393

130 140

8.795,616

17,463,79.1

The ethnical elements of the civil population on the basis of language was as follows in 1880 and 1890:—

— 1 1880

1890 II — 1880

1890

Hungarian (Magyar). German 1 Slovak .... Roumanian

6,445,487 1,953,911 1,864,529 2,405,085

7,426,730 Ruthonian, • \ 356,062 2,107,577 Croatian. . • ) « qt;o «qo 1,910,279 Servian . . . / -.•^^-'^•^•' 2,591,905 Others. . . . 264,689

383,392 1,554,000 1,057,264

31S,251

There were 179,809 foreign residents in Hungaiy at the end of 1890, of whom 159,637 were Austrian, 6,597 Germans, 5,886 Italians, 1,516 from