Official name | Slovak Republic |
Date of establishment | 1 January 1993 (after splitting of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic) |
Official language | Slovak |
Capital | Bratislava |
Political system | parliamentary democracy |
President of the Slovak Republic | Zuzana Čaputová (appointed in June 2019) |
Prime Minister | Eduard Heger (appointed in April 2021) |
Administrative organisation | 8 higher territorial units, 8 regions, 79 districts, 2,890 municipalities out of which are 141 cities and towns; Regional capitals: Bratislava, Trnava, Nitra, Trenčín, Žilina, Banská Bystrica, Prešov, Košice |
Neighbouring countries | Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine |
Membership in international organizations | EU (since 1 May 2004), NATO (since 29 March 2004), UN, OECD, OSCE, CERN, WHO, INTERPOL, etc. |
Currency | euro (since 1 January 2009); 1 euro (1€) = 100 cents (100c), banknotes issued in 500€, 200€, 100€, 50€, 20€, 10€ and 5€ denominations; coins in 2€ and 1€ and 50c, 20c, 10c, 5c, 2c and 1c denominations |
Area | 49,035 km² |
Population (as of 30 June 2020) | 5,460,136 million (51.2% are women) |
Density of population | 111/km2 |
The largest towns – by population (as of 31 December 2019) | Bratislava (437,726 inhabitants), Košice (238,593), Prešov (88,464), Žilina (80,727), Banská Bystrica (78,084), Nitra (76,533), Trnava (65,033), Trenčín (55,383), Martin (54,168), Poprad (51,235), Prievidza (45,634), Zvolen (42,167) |
Ethnic mix of population (as of 31 December 2019) | Slovak (81.6%), Hungarian (8.2%), Romany (2.1%), Czech (0.7%), Ruthenian (0.5%), Ukrainian (0.2%), German (0.14%), Polish (0.13%), Moravian (0.05%), other (0.4%) and unknown (6%) |
Religions (as of 31 December 2011) | Roman Catholic Church (62%), Evangelical Church of Augsburg Confession (5.9%), Greek Catholic Church (3.8%), Reformed Christian Church (1.8%), Orthodox Church (0.9%), Religious Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses (0.3%), United Methodist Church (0.2%), other (0.5%), without religion (13.4%) and unknown (10.6%) |
Main agricultural crops | corn, forest products, fruit, grains, hops, oat, potatoes, rye, sugar beets, wheat |
Breeding | cattle, goats, pigs, poultry, sheep |
Main fields of industry | chemical, electro-chemical, automotive, light industry, food processing, back-office support, engineering, building materials, paper and cellulose, wood, mining, metallurgical |
Natural resources | bentonite, brown coal, crude oil, dimension and crushed stone, gold, gypsum and anhydrite, kaolin, limestone, magnesite, natural gas, perlite, talc, zeolite |