Csepel Island

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Satellite picture of Csepel Island within Budapest

Csepel Island (Template:Langx, Script error: No such module "IPA".) is an island in the Danube in Hungary. It is Script error: No such module "convert". long; its width after Script error: No such module "convert". sections of bifurcation and rejoining (confluence) varies from Script error: No such module "convert".. It has an area of Script error: No such module "convert". and its population is 165,000.[1]

The isle extends south from Budapest; its northern point or section is Csepel – Budapest's District XXI. Most of the island is accessible from Budapest by the suburban railway. Towns include Ráckeve, Szigetszentmiklós, Szigethalom and Tököl.

Csepel island was the first centre of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (Template:Langx: "conquest of the homeland"), being the early homestead of Árpád's tribe. The island is named after Árpád's horse groom, Csepel.

It features Hungary's tallest structure, Lakihegy Tower, a Script error: No such module "convert". radio mast used today intermittently for power network control purposes.[2][3]

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