Kispest (lit.
Little Pest) is the 19th (XIX) district of
Budapest,
Hungary. It lies to the south-southeast of the historical
Pest city. It was founded in 1871 on rural land as a small village beside the city limits of Budapest, so it was named Kispest (Little Pest). From 1880 to 1990 Kispest's population increased from 1820 to 72,838. Kispest became part of
Greater Budapest in 1950. The huge
panel Kispesti lakótelep (Kispest
microdistrict) was built in the 1980s (12,100 flats, c. 33,000 inhabitants, so it's the 6th biggest housing estate/microraion in Budapest). The district is served by the
Metro 3 (
Kobánya-Kispest and
Határ út stations), so the connection with the
Downtown is rapid. Kispest's Határ út metro station is the third busiest in the city (after
Deák Square and
Örs vezér tere) with an estimated 40,000 passengers using it (often twice) on a typical workday.