Basic informations:

• Official name: Slovak Republic
• Capital city: Bratislava (429,564 inhabitants)
• Population: 5.4 million (of which 51.1% are women)
• Currency: euro (from 1 January 2009)
• Date of establishment: 1 January 1993 (after the division of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic)
• Political system: parliamentary democracy
• President: Peter Pellegrini (since 15 June 2024)
• Administrative organization: 8 higher territorial units, 8 regions, 79 districts, 2,927 municipalities, of which 140 are towns and municipalities.
• Regional cities: Bratislava, Trnava, Nitra, Trenčín, Žilina, Banská Bystrica, Prešov, Košice
• Official language: Slovak
• National symbols: national emblem, flag, seal and anthem „Nad Tatrou sa blýska“
• Neighboring countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine
• Area: 49,035 km2
• Population density: 111.08 / km2

You can find more information at the Slovak Travel Portal or Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic.

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Interesting facts

• According to some calculations, the geographical center of Europe is considered to be the point at the Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist, which lies above the village of Kremnické Bane.
• The inventor of the parachute is the Slovak Štefan Banič. He lived also worked from 1870 to 1941 in the USA. There in 1914, he tested his invention in front of a patent commission by jumping from a tall building. The parachute then belonged to the standard equipment of the US Army during the World War I.
• Slovenská bryndza is a traditional specialty from sheep cheese. Slovak bryndza was registered in the EU’s Register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications – it can be produced only in Slovakia under the same name. It is made from unpasteurized sheep’s milk from sheep bred in central, northern and eastern Slovakia.

source: Slovak travel portal

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