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Bratislava is situated in southwestern Slovakia, within the Bratislava Region. Its location on the borders with Austria and Hungary makes it the only national capital that borders two countries. It is only 18 kilometres (11.2 mi) from the border with Hungary and only 60 kilometres (37.3 mi) from the Austrian capital Vienna. [80]
Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia, is situated in Central Europe and it is located in the extreme south-west within Slovakia. The city borders Austria in the west and Hungary in the south making it the only national capital in the world to border two foreign countries.
Bratislava Slovakia Austria Hungary: Burgenland (state) Győr-Moson-Sopron (county) One of two capitals to border two sovereign states. [1] The border partly runs through the Danube, but swings west to include rural areas on the right bank of the river in Bratislava. There are multiple rail and road links to both Austria and Hungary.
The region is located in the south-western part of Slovakia and has an area of 2,053 km 2 and a population of 622,706 (2009). The region is split by the Little Carpathians which start in Bratislava and continue north-eastwards; these mountains separate two lowlands, the Záhorie lowland in the west and the fertile Danubian Lowland in the east, which grows mainly wheat and maize.
Petržalka (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈpetr̩ʐalka]; German: Engerau / Audorf; Hungarian: Pozsonyligetfalu) is the largest borough of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. Situated on the right bank of the river Danube , the area shares a land border with Austria , and is home to around 100,000 people.
Bratislava (Hungarian: Pozsony, German: Preßburg/Pressburg), currently the capital of Slovakia and the country's largest city, has existed for about a thousand years. . Because of the city's strategic geographical location, it was an important European hub due to its proximity to the advanced cultures of the Mediterranean and the Orient as well as its link to the rest of Europe, which were ...
The country has difficulties addressing regional imbalances in wealth and employment. [168] GDP per capita ranges from 188% of EU average in Bratislava to 54% in Eastern Slovakia. [169] Bratislava is the 19th-richest region of the European Union by GDP per capita. [170] Although regional income inequality is high, 90% of citizens own their homes.
Slovakia – landlocked sovereign country located in Central Europe. [1] Slovakia has a population of five and a half million and an area of 49,036 square kilometres (18,933 sq mi). [2] Slovakia borders the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. The capital Bratislava is its ...