Hajdúnánás is a town in Hajdú-Bihar County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
It was formerly known as Nánás, with added prefix Hajdú from Hajduk.
Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 17,172 people (2015). Racetrack On 21 June 2020, the Magyar Nemzetkozi Motodrome was announced to be built near Hajdúnánás, at the centre of the Debrecen-Miskolc-Nyíregyháza triangle. This track would be suitable to host MotoGP, as well as Formula 1 races in the future.
Notable residents Zoltán Nagy, footballer József Mónus, world recorder archer Zoltán Csehi, footballer Annamária Bogdanović, handballer Ágnes Szilágyi, handballer Anita Kazai, handballer Valéria Szabó, handballer Tamás Kulcsár, footballer Anett Sopronyi, handballer R. Yisrael Efraim Fischel Schreiber (Sofer), Rabbi of Hajdúnánás and author the Afsei Aretz (1862) Gábor Tánczos, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1919) Viktória Rédei Soós, handballer István Spitzmüller, footballer Paul Ornstein, Hungarian-American psychoanalyst Béla Vihar, poet, journalist, writer, teacher Meinhart Maur, German film actor Imre Hódos, wrestler Henrietta Csiszár, footballer
Twin towns – sister cities
Hajdúnánás is twinned with: Piešťany, Slovakia Ustroń, Poland Valea lui Mihai, Romania
Sport
Hajdúnánás FK, association football team
References
External links
in Hungarian