Prešov Region

It is located in the north-eastern Slovakia and has an area of 8,975 km². The region has diverse types of landscapes occurring in Slovakia, but mostly highlands and hilly lands dominate the area. The Tatras are located in the north-west, along with its subdivisions, High Tatras and Belianske Tatras, including the highest point of Slovakia - Gerlachovský štít (2,654 ASL). A small part of the Low Tatras reaches into the region. Basins in the western part are Podtatranská kotlina and Hornadská kotlina, other ranges include Pieniny and Levoča Hills. The central part is composed of the Šarišská vrchovina, Čergov, Ondavská vrchovina ,Slanské vrchy and other and the Košice Basin around Prešov. The eastern parts is composed of upper reaches of the Eastern Slovak Lowland, highland Laborecká vrchovina and mountain ranges of Bukovské vrchy and Vihorlat Mountains. Major rivers in the region include Poprad in the west, which is only major Slovak river in the Baltic Sea watershed, small part of Hornád in the south-west, small part of Dunajec in the north, Torysa in the centre and Ondava and Laborec in the east. As for administrative division, the region borders with Lesser Poland and Subcarpathian voivodeships in Poland in the north, Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine in the east, Košice Region in the south, Banská Bystrica Region in the south-west and Žilina Region in the west.

[edit] Demographics

The population density in the region is 89 inhabitants per km², what is under the country's average (110 per km²). The largest towns are Prešov, Poprad, Humenné, Bardejov and Snina. According to the 2001 census, there were 789,968 inhabitants in the region, with a majority of Slovaks (90.7%), with minorities of Roma (4%), Ruthenians (2.7%) and there are small minorities of Ukrainians (<1%) and Czechs (<0.5%).^[1]

[edit] List of districts

[edit] List of municipalities and towns

There are 666 municipalities, of which 23 are towns (in bold), where about half of the region's population live

[edit] References

^ POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS 2001 - Tab. 3a

[edit] Further reading

Kopa, Ľudovít et al. (2006). The Encyclopaedia of Slovakia and the Slovaks (in English). Bratislava, Slovakia: Encyclopaedic Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. ISBN 80-224-0925-1.