Paks as a former agricultural settlement is now the home of the only Hungarian nuclear power plant, which provides about 40% of the country's electricity consumption.

A Bronze Age gold hoard of jewelry was found between Paks and Dunaföldvár on the right bank of the Danube in the 19th century.

[1] The Catholic Holy Spirit church, built according to the design of Imre Makovecz is considered to be an outstanding work of 20th-century architecture.

In the final stages of the Second World War, Soviet troops occupied the town at great cost in the Budapest Offensive.

The Paks Nuclear Power Plant was built in the town in the 1980s, the final decade of Soviet rule within the country.