Kocs

Kocs
Aerial view
Flag Coat of arms
Kocs Location of Kocs
Coordinates: 47°36′24″N 18°12′55″E / 47.60668°N 18.21536°E / 47.60668; 18.21536
Country	Hungary
Region	Central Transdanubia
County	Komárom-Esztergom
District	Tata
Area
• Total	58.32 km2 (22.52 sq mi)
Population  (2015)
• Total	2,519
• Density	43.07/km2 (111.6/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	2898
Area code	34
Motorways	M1
Distance from Budapest	76.3 km (47.4 mi) East

Kocs (Hungarian: [kot͡ʃ]) is a village in Komárom-Esztergom county, Hungary. It lies west of Tata and 65 km (40 mi) north-west of Budapest. A site of horse-drawn vehicle manufacture from the 1400s, the name is the source of the word coach^[1] and its equivalent in other languages such as: Czech kočár, Slovak koč, German Kutsche, Dutch koets, Catalan cotxe, Italian cocchio, Spanish, Portuguese, and French coche, Scandinavian kusk, and Serbian кочија (kočija).