page_title: Hont County
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Hont County / Geography
context_page_description: Hont was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Most of its territory is now part of Slovakia, while a smaller southern portion is part of Hungary.
  Today, in Slovakia Hont is the informal designation of the corresponding territory and an official tourist region.
context_section_description: Hont county shared borders with the counties Bars, Zólyom, Nógrád, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun and Esztergom. It was situated between Selmecbánya and the Danube river, but the territory around the town of Korpona was added only at the end of the 19th century. The rivers Korpona and Ipoly were the central rivers that flowed through the county. Its area was 2633 km² around 1910.
caption: Map of the Hont county
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