Reiseführer Slovakia - Landesinformation

Koordinaten: 48 40 N, 19 30 E
Bevölkerung: 5,439,448 (July 2006 est.)
Religion: Roman Catholic 68.9%, Protestant 10.8%, Greek Catholic 4.1%, other or unspecified 3.2%, none 13% (2001 census)
Sprachen: Slovak (official) 83.9%, Hungarian 10.7%, Roma 1.8%, Ukrainian 1%, other or unspecified 2.6% (2001 census)
Klima: temperate; cool summers; cold, cloudy, humid winters
Erhöhung: lowest point: Bodrok River 94 m / highest point: Gerlachovsky Stit 2,655 m
Gefahren: NA
Geschichte Slovakia: The dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the close of World War I allowed the Slovaks to join the closely related Czechs to form Czechoslovakia. Following the chaos of World War II, Czechoslovakia became a Communist nation within Soviet-ruled Eastern Europe. Soviet influence collapsed in 1989 and Czechoslovakia once more became free. The Slovaks and the Czechs agreed to separate peacefully on 1 January 1993. Slovakia joined both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004.