470,000 people[2] (4.69% of the population), but this was before the Treaty of Trianon; after which Hungary lost Transcarpathia to Czechoslovakia.

This removed virtually almost all Hungarian land inhabited by them and led to the gradual reduction of the community to its present size.

After the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1939, Hungary occupied and annexed the recently proclaimed Carpathian Ukraine.

[citation needed] The Rusyns descend from Ruthenian peoples who did not adopt the use of the ethnonym "Ukrainian" in the early 20th century.

In today's Hungary, both Rusyns and Ukrainians are recognized as national minorities, with 3323 and 5633 peoples respectively, according to the 2011 census.