National Atlas of Hungary
Hungary · Cartographia · 1967
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Hungarian National Atlas
Л. Г. Каманин; Н. Ф. Леонтьев; Г.А. Правоторова · 1970
This article reviews the publication and scientific value of the National Atlas of the Hungarian People's Republic. The atlas contains 273 maps and cartograms organized into seven sections: natural conditions, population, agriculture, industry, transportation and communication, trade, and culture with social aspects. The authors emphasize that the atlas demonstrates innovative cartographic approaches, including the rational use of multiple scales and the synthesis of industrial indicators to characterize socialist industry. New themes such as surface-water pollution and geomorphological mapping are introduced. The agriculture and industry sections provide rich and practically oriented information, facilitating comparison and assessment. The article concludes that the atlas reflects a high level of Hungarian cartography and geography, serving both economic planning and scientific research, and offers valuable experience for international cartographic collaboration.
Book Review Section: National Atlas of Hungary Vol. 2: Natural Environment
Peter Jordan · 2019
This review assesses Kocsis et al.'s National Atlas of Hungary Vol. 2: Natural Environment, the first published part of a new four-volume national atlas series. It outlines the atlas's organizational structure, cartographic design, multilingual naming approach, and thematic breadth across 13 chapters covering geology, geophysics, relief, climate, waters, soils, vegetation, animals, landscapes, environmental protection, nature conservation, and natural hazards. The reviewer highlights the atlas's success in embedding Hungary in the wider Carpathian-Pannonian context, integrating explanatory texts and photos with maps, and applying innovative cartographic methods. Minor criticisms concern occasional typographic choices, map author attribution, and naming consistency. Overall, the atlas is praised as an outstanding scientific and national symbol that effectively replaces traditional written regional geography.
Reviews: National atlas of Hungary
Wolf Tietze · 1971
This is a review of the National Atlas of Hungary, edited by Prof. Sándor Radó and published in 1967 by Cartographia, Budapest. Produced under the aegis of the IGU Commission on National Atlases, the atlas applies the latest geographical survey methods and refined cartographic techniques to a comprehensive range of themes including physical geography, geology, climate, hydrology, population, settlement, economy, and transport. The reviewer highlights its vivid representation of SW–NE structural lineaments, large-scale geomorphological maps, detailed climatic and hydrological analyses, and population maps reflecting the Tanya settlement pattern of the Alföld. At the same time, it criticizes methodological flaws in the language maps, incomplete information in settlement map excerpts, the lack of historical perspectives, and proposes a mechanism for continuous updating.
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