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Historically, Slovakia was not divided into kraje, but into counties (Slovak: župy or stolice). This was the case when present-day Slovakia was part of: Great Moravia (cca. 9th century) Kingdom of Hungary (cca. 11th / 12th century – 1918) Czechoslovakia (the župy existed 1918 – 1928) the WWII Slovak Republic (the župy existed 1940 – 1945)
The cities of Bratislava and Košice are the only cities in Slovakia divided into internal urban districts, with five in Bratislava, and four in Košice. These urban districts are then further divided into smaller boroughs (which serve a function analogous to municipalities in typical districts).
A topographical map of Slovakia. The Tatra Mountains, with 29 peaks higher than 2,500 metres (8,202 feet) AMSL, are the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains. The Tatras occupy an area of 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi), of which the greater part 600 square kilometres (232 sq mi) lies in Slovakia. They are divided into several parts.
This is an alphabetical list of the 2,891 obcí (singular obec, "municipality") in Slovakia. [1] They are grouped into 79 districts (okresy, singular okres), in turn grouped into 8 regions (kraje, singular kraj); articles on individual districts and regions list their municipalities.
This is a list of cities and towns in Slovakia, called mestá (singular mesto) in Slovak. Although mesto is variously translated into English as "town" or "city", there is no such legal distinction in Slovak. As of 25 September 2019, there were 141 cities (miest) in Slovakia. [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.
Slovakia_clear_map_2008-11-17.svg: *derivative work: Henry Mühlpfordt (talk) Slovakia-map.png : United States Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook Other versions
Slovakia, [a] officially the Slovak Republic, [b] is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's mostly mountainous territory spans about 49,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi), hosting a population ...