Slovakia
Slovakia (officially Slovak Republic) is a country in Central Europe, with its capital at Bratislava, and is home to roughly 5.4M people.
Slovak is the official language; the currency in circulation is Euro (€); people from here are called Slovak.
- »Slovakia has among the highest number of castles and chateaux per capita in the world.
Slovakia touches five neighbours: Austria to the west, Czechia to the west, Hungary to the south, Poland to the north and Ukraine to the east. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Bratislava is the only capital that borders two other countries, sitting within a few kilometres of both Austria and Hungary.
48,223 km² (18,619 sq mi), 129th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of the Dominican Republic.
Population 5,422,069, 119th of 198 on file. That averages 112 per km² (291 per sq mi).
The pan-Slavic tricolour with the national arms offset toward the hoist, the double cross on three hills, a symbol dating to the Great Moravian period.