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Status of channel water bodies in Hungary

Hungary is one of the few countries in Europe with a geography that is completely landlocked, meaning it has no coast. A great proportion of the geographical land of Hungary is taken up by the Great Plains located in central and eastern Hungary, where the lie of the land is generally low and flat.    Hydrographically Hungary can be divided into two roughly equal parts: one part belongs to the Danube and the other one is in the Tisza Basin.   In the late nineteenth century, during the large-scale river regulation works on the Tisza River and in smaller extend on the Danube River, canal systems were also created partly as artificial waterways, partly to help the agricultural landuse, and partly to draine inland excess water away. The most important canal of  theTransdanubia part of the countryis the 100 km long Sió Channel connecting Lake Balaton and the Danube River. 

As a consequence of large scale river regulation works and construction more than 4500 km long flood protection levee system nowadays roughly one forth of the territory of the country is under 100 year probability flood level (Figure 8.5).