Slovakia

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This page was generated on 4 September 2026 at 22:11 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Slovakia. Slovakia is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. View spans 16.3°E to 23.1°E and 47.6°N to 49.8°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Slovakia is filled. The 6 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Slovakia. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 48.7°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 16.3°E–23.1°E, 47.6°N–49.8°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Slovakia. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    1 source from Slovakiain Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • SME

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for Slovakia: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    National Council of the Slovak Republic ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Bratislava

    25°C / 76°FMainly clearwind 4 km/h

    Checked 11 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Bratislava, 2026-09-05Sunrise 6:14 AM · sunset 7:25 PM13h 11m of daylightWaning crescent, 37% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    SVKuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    230 Vcited
    Capital
    Bratislavacited
    Official language
    Slovakuncited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type Ecited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    No source assessed yet

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Slovakia: the UN's 2025 estimate is 5,413,813 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 23 fewer a day. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    5,413,813 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    5,422,069 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 23 fewer a day (-8,261 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    5,413,8132025
    GDP
    154,530,066,5072025
    GDP per capita
    28,5442025
    Life expectancy at birth
    78.4 years2024
    Exports
    85.1%2025
    Imports
    85.2%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.

    Also recorded in English and Welsh.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    8 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity · inscribed 1993

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    2. Levoča, Spiš Castle and the associated cultural monuments · inscribed 1993
    3. Vlkolínec · inscribed 1993
    4. Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst · inscribed 1995 · shared with Hungary
    5. Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve · inscribed 2000
    6. Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe · inscribed 2007 · shared with Albania, Austria and 15 more countries
    7. wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians · inscribed 2008
    8. Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Western Segment) · inscribed 2021 · shared with Austria, Germany

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 112
    • 150listed as: fire department
    • 155listed as: emergency medical services
    • 158listed as: police

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    EUR

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-08-31. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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