Hajdúnánás is a town in Hajdú-Bihar County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

Geography

It covers an area of 259.62 km (100 sq mi) 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