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Slovakia
Slovak Republic ยท Slovensko
Europe
ยท Eastern Europe
- ISO codes
- SK ยท SVK
- Density
- 111 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Slovak
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +421
- Internet domain
- .sk
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 48.7340ยฐ N, 19.0500ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Slovak
- UN region
- Eastern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $105.08B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Slovakia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Ten facts about Slovakia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 5,454,073 people, the 118th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,408 of everyone alive.
Covers 49,037 kmยฒ, making it the 130th largest country here - about 5.3 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 111 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Bratislava, at 48.15ยฐ N, 17.12ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 423,737.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Bratislava.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
The official language is Slovak.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Slovakia.