Orseg National Park is a national park in westernmost Hungary near Oriszentpeter, established in 2002. It covers about 440.483 square kilometers of forested hill country and provides habitat for the western capercaillie. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1. Őrség National Park (Wikipedia)
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Őrség National Park (Hungarian: Őrségi Nemzeti Park) is a Hungarian National Park established in 2002 with a total area of 440 km2 (110,000 acres; 170 sq mi).
The region takes its name Őrség (meaning 'watch post') from the Magyars, who in order to defend the western gates, built watch posts across this land.
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