Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and the tenth-largest town in the European Union by populace within metropolis limits. The metropolis has an anticipated populace of 1,752,286 over a land vicinity of approximately 525 rectangular kilometers (203 square miles). Budapest is both a town and county and forms the middle of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of 7,626 rectangular kilometers (2,944 rectangular miles) and a population of 3,303,786, comprising 33% of the population of Hungary.