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Slovakia

Slovakia or the Slovak Republic is a country in . The main reasons to visit Slovakia are its natural beauty, vivid history and great opportunities for relaxation.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Bratislava and Košice.

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, is the capital and largest city of Slovakia. It has a population of more than 475,000, and is the administrative, cultural and economic centre of the country.

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¼ is the second largest city in Slovakia, with a population of almost 240,000. It was the European Capital of Culture in 2013. Despite its relative remoteness, you may likely find a hidden, unknown and approachable gem when seeking for a lesson in less known European history, lively arts scene or for a less spiritual entertainment thanks to its vibrant party scene.

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is a city in central Slovakia, located on the River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the , the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mountains.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Western Slovakia and Central Slovakia.

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is in the region including the capital , the Slovakian Danube River Valley, and other lower-lying territory, bounded on the north by the , on the west by , on the south by .

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is bounded by the and to the north, and to the south.

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is a subdivision of Slovakia as defined by the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics. It is one of the four classified NUTS-2 statistical regions of Slovakia.

Slovakia

Latitude of center
48.756° or 48° 45′ 22″ north
Longitude of center
19.611° or 19° 36′ 40″ east
Population
5,450,000
Area
48,845 km² (18,859 miles²)
Elevation
1,183 metres (3,881 feet)
Capital
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Phone code
.sk
Internet domain
421
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432425079
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3057568
Wiki­data ID
Q214
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Slovakia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Словакиа”
  • Achinese: “Slowakia”
  • Adyghe: “Словакие”
  • Afrikaans: “Slowakye”
  • Akan: “Slovakia”
  • Albanian: “Sllovaki”
  • Albanian: “Sllovakia”
  • Amharic: “ስሎቫኪያ”
  • Amis: “Slovakia”
  • Angika: “स्लोवाकिया”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية سلوفاكيا”
  • Arabic: “سلوفاكيا”
  • Aragonese: “Eslovaquia”
  • Armenian: “Սլովակիա”
  • Arpitan: “Slovaquia”
  • Arpitan: “Slovaquie”
  • Assamese: “শ্লোভাকিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Eslovaquia”
  • Asturian: “SK”
  • Asturian: “SVK”
  • Atayal: “Slovakia”
  • Avaric: “Словакия”
  • Awadhi: “स्लोवाकिया”
  • Aymara: “Isluwaqiya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Slovakiya”
  • Balinese: “Slovakia”
  • Bambara: “Slowaki”
  • Bashkir: “Словакия”
  • Basque: “Eslobakia”
  • Basque: “Eslovakia”
  • Bavarian: “Slowakai”
  • Bavarian: “Slowakei”
  • Belarusian: “Славакія”
  • Belarusian: “Славацкая Рэспубліка”
  • Belarusian: “Славаччына”
  • Bengali: “শ্লোভাকিয়া”
  • Bengali: “স্লোভাকিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Slowaki”
  • Bhojpuri: “स्लोवाकिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “স্লোভাকিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Slovakia”
  • Bosnian: “Slovačka”
  • Breton: “Slovakia”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Словакия”
  • Bulgarian: “Словакия”
  • Bulgarian: “Словашка република”
  • Burmese: “စလိုဗေးကီးယား”
  • Burmese: “ဆလိုဗက်ကီးယား”
  • Burmese: “ဆလိုဗားကီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Carpathian Romani: “Slovačiko”
  • Carpathian Romani: “Slovensko”
  • Catalan: “Eslovàquia”
  • Cebuano: “Esklobakiya”
  • Cebuano: “Eslobakya”
  • Central Bikol: “Slobakya”
  • Central Kurdish: “سلۆڤاکیا”
  • Chamorro: “Eslobakia”
  • Chavacano: “Eslovaquia”
  • Chechen: “Словаки”
  • Cherokee: “ᏍᎶᏩᎩᎠ”
  • Cheyenne: “Slovakia”
  • Chinese: “Sīluòfákè”
  • Chinese: “Slovakia”
  • Chinese: “斯洛伐克”
  • Church Slavic: “Словѣньско”
  • Chuvash: “Словаки”
  • Cornish: “Slovaki”
  • Corsican: “Sluvacchia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Slovakiya”
  • Croatian: “Slovačka”
  • Czech: “Slovenská republika”
  • Czech: “Slovensko”
  • Dagbani: “Slovakia”
  • Danish: “Slovakiet (Den Slovakiske Republik)”
  • Danish: “Slovakiet”
  • Dhivehi: “ސުލޮވާކިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Slowakya”
  • Dotyali: “स्लोभाकिया”
  • Dutch: “SK”
  • Dutch: “Slovaakse Republiek”
  • Dutch: “Slovakije”
  • Dutch: “Slowaakse Republiek”
  • Dutch: “Slowakije”
  • Dutch: “SVK”
  • Dzongkha: “སི་ལོ་པ་ཀེ་”
  • Dzongkha: “སུ་ལོ་བཱ་ཀི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Словакий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سلوفاكيا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سلوڤاكيا”
  • Erzya: “Словакия Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Slovakio”
  • Esperanto: “SK”
  • Esperanto: “Slovaka respubliko”
  • Esperanto: “Slovakio”
  • Esperanto: “Slovakujo”
  • Esperanto: “SVK”
  • Estonian: “Slovakkia”
  • Ewe: “Slovakia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Slovakia”
  • Extremaduran: “Eslovaquia”
  • Extremaduran: “Eslováquia”
  • Faroese: “Slovakia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Slovakia”
  • Finnish: “Slovakia”
  • Finnish: “Slovakian tasavalta”
  • French: “la République slovaque”
  • French: “République slovaque”
  • French: “SK”
  • French: “Slovaquie”
  • Friulian: “Slovachie”
  • Fulah: “Slowakii”
  • Fulah: “Sulowakiya”
  • Gagauz: “Slovakiya”
  • Galician: “Eslovaquia”
  • Ganda: “Sirovakya”
  • Ganda: “Slovakia”
  • Georgian: “სლოვაკეთი”
  • German: “sk”
  • German: “Slowakei (Slowakische Republik)”
  • German: “Slowakei”
  • German: “Slowakien”
  • German: “Slowakische Republik”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Slovakia”
  • Gilaki: “اسلؤواکي”
  • Goan Konkani: “Slovakia”
  • Goan Konkani: “स्लोवाकिया”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌺𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Σλοβακίας”
  • Greek: “Σλοβακία”
  • Guarani: “Elovakia”
  • Guarani: “Elovákia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Slovaki”
  • Gujarati: “સ્લોવાકિયા”
  • Gujarati: “સ્લોવેકિયા”
  • Haitian: “Slovaki”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Slovakia”
  • Hausa: “Slofakiya”
  • Hausa: “Sulobakiya”
  • Hawaiian: “Solowakia”
  • Hebrew: “סלובקיה”
  • Hindi: “स्लोवाकिया”
  • Hungarian: “Felvidék”
  • Hungarian: “Szlovák Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Szlovákia”
  • Icelandic: “Slóvakía”
  • Ido: “Slovakia”
  • Igbo: “Slovakia”
  • Iloko: “Eslobakia”
  • Inari Sami: “Slovakia täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Slovakia”
  • Indonesian: “Slovakia”
  • Indonesian: “Slowakia”
  • Interlingua: “Slovachia”
  • Interlingue: “Slovacia”
  • Interlingue: “Slovakia”
  • Irish: “an tSlóvaic”
  • Irish: “An tSlóvaic”
  • Italian: “Slovacchia (Repubblica Slovacca)”
  • Italian: “Slovacchia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Slovakia”
  • Japanese: “スロヴァキア”
  • Japanese: “スロバキア (スロバキア共和国)”
  • Japanese: “スロバキア”
  • Japanese: “スロバキア共和国”
  • Javanese: “Slowak”
  • Javanese: “Slowakie”
  • Kabardian: “Словакиэ”
  • Kabardian: “Слоуакэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Siloovaakii”
  • Kabyle: “Sluvakya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Slovakia”
  • Kalmyk: “Словакудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಲೊವಾಕಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಲೊವಾಕಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಲೋವಾಕಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Slovakiya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Словакия”
  • Kashmiri: “سَلوواکِیا”
  • Kashubian: “Słowackô”
  • Kazakh: “Словакия”
  • Khmer: “ស្លូវ៉ាគី”
  • Kikuyu: “Slovakia”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Silovakiya”
  • Kirghiz: “Словакия”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Словенско”
  • Komi: “Словакия”
  • Kongo: “Slovakia”
  • Korean: “슬로바키아”
  • Korean: “슬로벤스꼬”
  • Kotava: “Slovenska”
  • Kurdish: “Slovakya”
  • Kurdish: “سلۆڤاکیا”
  • Ladin: “Slovachia”
  • Ladino: “Eslovakia”
  • Lak: “Словакиа”
  • Lak: “Словакия”
  • Lao: “ສະໂລວາເກຍ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດສະໂລວາກີ”
  • Latgalian: “Slovakeja”
  • Latin: “Slovacia”
  • Latin: “Slovakia”
  • Latvian: “Slovākija”
  • Lezghian: “Словакия”
  • Ligurian: “Slovacchia”
  • Ligurian: “Slovàchia”
  • Limburgan: “Slowakieë”
  • Limburgan: “Slowakije”
  • Lingala: “Silovaki”
  • Lingala: “Slovakia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Slovensco”
  • Literary Chinese: “斯洛伐克”
  • Lithuanian: “Slovakia”
  • Lithuanian: “Slovakija”
  • Liv: “Slovākij”
  • Livvi: “Slovakii”
  • Lojban: “slovensk”
  • Lombard: “Slovachia”
  • Lombard: “Sluachia”
  • Low German: “Slovakaai”
  • Low German: “Slovakije”
  • Low German: “Slowaaknlaand”
  • Low German: “Slowakei”
  • Low German: “Slowakije”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Słowakska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Silovaki”
  • Lule Sami: “Slováhka”
  • Luxembourgish: “Slowakei”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Slovachia”
  • Macedonian: “Словачка”
  • Madurese: “Slovakia”
  • Maithili: “स्लोवाकिया”
  • Malagasy: “Silaovakia”
  • Malagasy: “Slovakia”
  • Malagasy: “Slôvakia”
  • Malay: “Slovakia”
  • Malayalam: “സ്ലോവാക്യ”
  • Maltese: “is-Slovakkja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika Slovakka”
  • Maltese: “Slovakkja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁ꯭ꯂꯣꯚꯥꯀꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Slovack”
  • Manx: “Slovakia”
  • Manx: “y Clovack”
  • Manx: “Yn Clovack”
  • Maori: “Horowākia”
  • Marathi: “स्लोव्हाकिया”
  • Mazanderani: “اسلواکی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Slovakia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Slovakia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Slovensko”
  • Minangkabau: “Slowakia”
  • Mingrelian: “სლოვაკეთი”
  • Mirandese: “Slobáquia”
  • Moksha: “Словакия”
  • Moksha: “Словаконь республикась”
  • Mongolian: “Словак”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “صلوڤاكيا”
  • Narom: “Slovaquie”
  • Nauru: “Slowakia”
  • Navajo: “Dziłkʼi Tsinʼałnáoszidnii Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Slovachia”
  • Nepali: “स्लोभाकिया”
  • Newari: “स्लोभाकिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Slovakia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Slowakäi”
  • Northern Sami: “Slovakia dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Slovakia”
  • Northern Sami: “Slovákia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den slovakiske republikk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Slovakia (Den slovakiske republikk)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Slovakia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Slovakia”
  • Norwegian: “Slovakia”
  • Novial: “Slovakia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Eslovaquia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܠܘܒܩܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Slofacland”
  • Oriya: “ସ୍ଲୋଭାକିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Islovaakiyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Словаки”
  • Pali: “स्लोवाकिया”
  • Pampanga: “Eslobakya”
  • Pampanga: “Eslovakya”
  • Pangasinan: “Slobakiya”
  • Pangasinan: “Slovakia”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਲੋਵਾਕੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Slovakia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Slowaaki”
  • Persian: “اسلواکی”
  • Persian: “اسلوواکی”
  • Persian: “سلواک”
  • Picard: “Slovakie”
  • Piemontese: “Slovachia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Slowarkya”
  • Polish: “Slovensko”
  • Polish: “Słowacja”
  • Pontic: “Σλοβακία”
  • Portuguese: “Eslováquia”
  • Portuguese: “República Eslovaca”
  • Pushto: “سلواکیا”
  • Pushto: “سلوواکيا”
  • Quechua: “Eslovaquia”
  • Quechua: “Isluwakya”
  • Romanian: “Republica Slovacă”
  • Romanian: “Slovacia”
  • Romanian: “Словачия”
  • Romansh: “Slovachia”
  • Rundi: “Silovakiya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Словак”
  • Russia Buriat: “Словаки”
  • Russian: “Slovensko”
  • Russian: “Словакия”
  • Russian: “Словацкая республика”
  • Russian: “Словацкая Республика”
  • Rusyn: “Словеньско”
  • Sakizaya: “Slovakia”
  • Samoan: “Solovakia”
  • Samogitian: “Slovakėjė”
  • Samogitian: “Slovakėjės Respoblėka”
  • Samogitian: “Slovakia”
  • Samogitian: “Sluovakėjė”
  • Samogitian: “Sluovakėjės respoblėka”
  • Sango: “Solovakïi”
  • Sanskrit: “स्लोवाकिया”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱞᱳᱵᱷᱟᱠᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Islovàchia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Slowakäi”
  • Scots: “Slovakie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Slòbhac”
  • Serbian: “sk”
  • Serbian: “Slovačka”
  • Serbian: “SVK”
  • Serbian: “Република Словачка”
  • Serbian: “Словачка Република”
  • Serbian: “Словачка”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “sk”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Slovačka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Slovensko”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသလူဝ်ႇဝႃးၵီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Slovakia”
  • Sicilian: “Slovacchia”
  • Silesian: “Słowacyjo”
  • Sindhi: “سلوواڪيا”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ලෝවැකියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ලෝවැක් සමුහාණ්ඩුව”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ලෝවෑන් සමුහාණ්ඩුව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Slovakia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Slovakia”
  • Slovak: “Slovenská republika”
  • Slovak: “Slovenská Republika”
  • Slovak: “Slovensko”
  • Slovenian: “Slovaška”
  • Slovenian: “Slovensko”
  • Somali: “Islofaakiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایسلوواکی”
  • Southern Sami: “Slovaakia”
  • Southern Sotho: “Slovakia”
  • Spanish: “Eslovaquia”
  • Spanish: “Republica Eslovaca”
  • Spanish: “República Eslovaca”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Slovakikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⵍⵓⴼⴰⴽⵢⴰ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵚⵍⵓⴼⴰⴽⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Slovakia”
  • Swahili: “Slovakia”
  • Swati: “Silovakhi”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Slovakien”
  • Swedish: “Slovakien”
  • Swedish: “Slovakiska republiken”
  • Swiss German: “Slowakei”
  • Tachelhit: “Ṣluvakiya”
  • Tagalog: “Eslobakya”
  • Tagalog: “Eslovaquia”
  • Tagalog: “Slovak Republic”
  • Tagalog: “Slovakia”
  • Tajik: “Словакия”
  • Talysh: “Slovakijə”
  • Talysh: “Slovakiyə”
  • Tamil: “சிலோவாக்கியா”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்லோவாகியா”
  • Taroko: “Slovakia”
  • Tatar: “Словакия”
  • Telugu: “స్లొవాకియా”
  • Telugu: “స్లొవేకియా”
  • Tetum: “Eslovákia”
  • Thai: “ประเทศสโลวาเกีย”
  • Thai: “สโลวะเกีย”
  • Thai: “สโลวาเกีย”
  • Tibetan: “ས་ལཽ་ཝཀྱ།”
  • Tibetan: “སི་ལོ་ཕ་ཁེ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ስሎቫኪያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Slovakia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Silovākia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Silōvakia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Slowakei”
  • Tsonga: “Slovakia”
  • Tumbuka: “Slovakia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “سلوڥاكيا”
  • Turkish: “Slovakya”
  • Turkmen: “Slowakiýa”
  • Twi: “Slovakia”
  • Udmurt: “Словакия”
  • Uighur: “سلوۋاكىيە”
  • Uighur: “سىلوۋاكىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Словакія”
  • Ukrainian: “Словацька Республіка”
  • Ukrainian: “Словаччина”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Słowakska republika”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Słowakska”
  • Urdu: “سلوواکیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Slovakiya”
  • Venetian: “Slovachia”
  • Venetian: “Slovàchia”
  • Veps: “Slovakii”
  • Veps: “Slovakijan Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Slovakia”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Slovakia”
  • Vietnamese: “Slovakia”
  • Vietnamese: “Xlô-va-ki-a (Slovakia)”
  • Vietnamese: “Xlô-va-ki-a”
  • Vlaams: “Slovakeye”
  • Vlax Romani: “Slovaiko”
  • Vlax Romani: “Slovakiya”
  • Volapük: “Slovakän”
  • Volapük: “Slovakiyän”
  • Võro: “Slovakkia”
  • Walloon: “Slovakeye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Eslovakya”
  • Welsh: “Slofacia”
  • Western Armenian: “Սլովաքիա”
  • Western Balochi: “سلواکیا”
  • Western Frisian: “Slowakije”
  • Western Panjabi: “سلوواکیا”
  • Wolof: “Eslowaaki”
  • Wolof: “Eslowaki”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯洛伐克”
  • Xhosa: “Slovakiya”
  • Yakut: “Словакия”
  • Yiddish: “סלאוואקיי”
  • Yiddish: “סלאוואַקיי”
  • Yoruba: “Silofakia”
  • Yoruba: “Slofákíà”
  • Yue Chinese: “Slovenská republika”
  • Yue Chinese: “Slovensko”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯洛伐克”
  • Zeeuws: “Slowakije”
  • Zhuang: “Slovakia”
  • Zulu: “i-Slovakia”
  • Zulu: “ISlovaki”
  • “Eslovaquia”
  • “ma Lowenki”
  • “SK”
  • “Slovacchia”
  • “Slovacchie”
  • “Slovakkia”
  • “Slowakia”
  • “Sluovakėjė”
  • “Sluvachii”
  • “SR”
  • “SVK”
  • “Словачия”
  • “स्लोवाकिया”

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