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SLOVAKIA
COUNTRY'S ESSENTIALS
Basic information
Official Name: Slovak Republic
(Slovenská republika)
Area: 49,037 km²
Population: 5.4 million
Capital: Bratislava (~400,000)
Other cities: Košice (~240,000),
Prešov (~91,000)
Official Language: Slovak
Currency: Euro (EUR) since
January 1, 2009
Ethnic groups:
• 80.7% Slovaks
• 8.5% Hungarians
• 10.8% Roma, Czechs,
Rusyns, others
Slovakia is a member of:
• UN, since January 1993
European Union, since
May 2004
• NATO, since March 2004
Political framework
Form of State: Parliamentary
Republic
Political Structure: President,
unicameral National Council of the
Slovak Republic with 150 seats
serving four-year term
Elections: last parliamentary
elections held in March 2016 (next
due in 2020)
Three major parties:
• SMER - sociálna
demokracia with 49/150
seats in the latest elections
of March 2016
• Sloboda a Solidarita with
21/150 seats
• OĽANO-NOVA with
19/150 seats
President: Mr. Andrej Kiska
Prime Minister: Mr. Peter
Pellegrini
Governor of the Slovak National
Bank: Mr. Peter Kažimír
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Structure
Parliament
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