page_title: Bakonya
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Bakonya / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: A bakonyai uránbányászok emlékműve a bakonyai helytörténeti múzeum kertjében
context_page_description: Bakonya is a village in central Baranya County, Pécs District, in southern Hungary. It is located in the western Mecsek mountain range and was the site of a uranium mine from the 1950s to 1989. Its population at the 2011 Census was 335.
context_section_description: The village is located at 46° 5′ 12″ N, 18° 4′ 51″ E. Its area is 15.07 km² (5.82 sq mi). It is part of the Southern Transdanubia statistical region, and administratively it falls under Baranya County and then Pécs District.
  It lies 11.9 km (7.4 mi) west of the city of Pécs and is bordered by the villages of Hetvehely to the north, Kővágótöttös to the east, Bicsérd to the south, and Boda to the west.
  Bakonya is located in the western Mecsek Mountains, and the northern half of the village area lies within the Western Mecsek Landscape Protection District, managed by the Danube-Dráva National Park.
  The area is rich in minerals in relation to other parts of Hungary, and uranium ore was discovered in sandstone deposits near Bakonya, with production beginning in the mid-1950s. The uranium was of low grade, but production was subsidized by the government until 1989, when the mine closed following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the primary consumer of the ore, rendering the operation no longer economically viable.
caption: Uranium mining monument in Bakonya.
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