Tiszántúl or Transtisza or Crișana (literal meaning: "beyond Tisza") is a geographical region of which lies between the Tisza river, Hungary and the Apuseni Mountains, Romania, bordered by the Maros (Mureș) river. Alongside Kiskunság, it is a part of Great Alföld, however today, the denomination is mostly restricted to the area with an extent only to the present border with Romania.[1]
It is mainly a flat area, being part of the Great Hungarian Plain. The area is divided by the tributaries of the Tisza: the Körös and Maros rivers. The largest city of the area is Debrecen, other county capitals being Nyíregyháza and Békéscsaba.
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| West-Hungarian Borderland |
|  Physico-geographical mesoregions of Hungary |
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| Little Hungarian Plain |
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| Transdanubia |
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| Transdanubian Mountains |
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| Transdanubian Hills |
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| North Hungarian Mountains | ||
| Great Hungarian Plain | ||
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