Slovakia essays

Slovakia essays Slovakia, which official name is the Slovak Republic (Slovenska Republika) is located in central Europe, south of Poland, and north of Hungary, and south east of the Czech Republic. Slovakia and the Czech Republic were former parts of Czechoslovakia, until they emerged as republics on January 1, 1993. When Slovakia separated from Czechoslovakia it was left with 49,036 sq km (18,933 sq miles). The official language in the Slovak Republic is of course Slovak, and the majority of the Slovaks are Catholic. The capitol city, Bratislava is located in the far west of the country. The population of Slovakia is 5 268 935, which was conducted in 1995. The population growth rate is 0.13%.The birth rate is 10.05, and death rate is 9.25 both per 1,000 persons in the population. Slovakias GDP is $55.3 billion and the GDP per capita is $10,200. Slovakias main exports include: machinery, transportation equipment, intermediate manufactured goods, miscellaneous manufactured goods, and chemicals this comes to a cost of $12 billion dollars. Slovakia, for its size, only has 3,660km of railways and 17,710km of highways in the country. The geography of the land is very up and down, Slovakia is mainly affected by the Western Carpathian Mountains. These mountains consists of 4 regions of east-west trending ranges, outer, central and inner. These regions are separated by valleys and basins. There are 2 large lowland areas north of Hungary: the Little Alfold (southwest) and the Eastern Slovakian Lowland (east). As seen in the following picture. Since Slovakia is a fairly new country its military is not a large one, nor does it need to be since it is surrounded by many countries, which are allies. Although it has no direct connection to a major body of water the Slovak navy still consists of 3 ships which run out of 2 harbours Bratislava, and Komarno. Its more main military aspect ...