After the conquest of the Carpathian Basin one of the main Hungarian (Magyar) tribes, named Megyer, settled in the present-territory of Budapest, more exactly on the both bank of the river Danube in Békásmegyer ("Frog's Megyer") and Káposztásmegyer ("Cabbage's Megyer"), now high-rise housing estates of the city.
According to the 2011 census the total population of Budapest was 1,729,040, of whom there were 1,397,851 (80.8%)