Hungarians in Ukraine numbered 156,600 people according to the Ukrainian census of 2001, representing the third largest national minority in the country.
Hungarians are primarily concentrated in the region (oblast) of Zakarpattia, which is also known as Transcarpathia. Hungarians living in this region are referred to as Transcarpathian Hungarians. Transcarpathian Hungarians constitute 12.1% of the region's population, and are a majority in areas along the Hungary–Ukraine border.
Hungarians, also known as Magyars, are an ethnic group native to Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország), who share a common culture, language, history and ancestry. They also have a notable presence in former parts of the Kingdom of Hungary. The Hungarian language belongs to the Ugric branch of the Uralic language family, alongside the Khanty and Mansi languages.
There are an estimated 14.5 million ethnic Hungarians and their descendants worldwide, of whom 9.6 million live in today's Hungary. About 2 million Hungarians live in areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 and are now parts of Hungary's seven neighbouring countries, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. In addition, significant groups of people with Hungarian ancestry live in various other parts of the world, most of them in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Chile, Brazil, Australia, and Argentina, and therefore constitute the Hungarian diaspora (Hungarian: magyar diaszpóra).