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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
