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Slovakia lies between 49°36'48" and 47°44'21" northern latitude and 16°50'56" and 22°33'53" eastern longitude. The northernmost point is near Beskydok, a mountain on the border with Poland near the village of Oravská Polhora in the Beskids. The southernmost point is near the village of Patince on the Danube on the border with Hungary.
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 mestá in Slovakia. [1]
Slovakia's mostly mountainous territory spans about 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi), hosting a population exceeding 5.4 million. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, while the second largest city is Košice . The Slavs arrived in the territory of the present-day Slovakia in the 5th and 6th centuries.
The location of Slovakia. An enlargeable map of the Slovak Republic. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Slovakia: 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]
Geography of Bratislava. 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. The state border with the Czech Republic is ...
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)
Bratislava ( / ˌbrætɪˈslɑːvə / BRAT-iss-LAH-və, US also / ˌbrɑːt -/ BRAHT-, [ 3][ 4] Slovak: [ˈbracislaʋa] ⓘ) (German: Pressburg or Preßburg, German pronunciation: [ˈpʁɛsbʊʁk]; Hungarian: Pozsony; Slovak: Prešporok ), is the capital and largest city of Slovakia and the fourth largest of all cities on Danube river.
Prešov ( Slovak pronunciation: [ˈpreʂɔw] ⓘ, Hungarian: Eperjes, German: Eperies, Rusyn and Ukrainian: Пряшів) is a city in Eastern Slovakia. It is the seat of administrative Prešov Region ( Slovak: Prešovský kraj) and Šariš, as well as the historic Sáros County of the Kingdom of Hungary. With a population of approximately ...