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Can you place all 77 districts of Czechia?
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Slovakia is a long country laid out west to east: the Danube plain at one end, the Tatras in the north, and the Carpathian foothills against Ukraine at the other. Its eight regions follow that line, so which one a place is in usually follows from how far along the country you are.
The eight kraje, each named for its largest city. Bratislava is the smallest and sits in the far south west corner, where Slovakia meets Austria and Hungary at the Danube, so it has a tap area wider than its outline. Banská Bystrica is the largest and runs across the middle of the country, and Žilina and Prešov are the two that reach up to the Polish border.
The groups are the four areas Slovakia reports its statistics for: Bratislava on its own, the west (Trnava, Trenčín and Nitra), the centre (Žilina and Banská Bystrica) and the east (Prešov and Košice). The regions are the districts of Slovakia Districts dissolved, so the borders of the two maps match exactly. The local name is a switch in the start dialog: Bratislava is the Bratislavský kraj.
Bratislava is the only capital in the world that borders two other countries. The region is the smallest of the eight and the one a first guess most often gets wrong, because it is tucked against the western border instead of sitting near the middle.
Banská Bystrica is the largest region, and the one that holds the geographic middle of the country. It spans the Low Tatras and the hills of the south, and runs from the Low Tatras south to the Hungarian border.
Eight, called kraje. They have existed in their present form since 1996, and each is named for its largest city.
It grew where the Danube leaves the Carpathians, at the meeting point of Austria and Hungary. It became the capital of the country in 1993, and the borders were not drawn around it.
The tier below this one is Slovakia Districts, whose regions are the groups there. For another country at this level, see Czechia Regions.
