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Geography
Slovakia is a country situated in the heart of Europe.
The geographical centre of Europe is in fact the Church
of St John in Kremnické Bane, a village in central Slo-
vakia. Slovakia, with its total area of 49 thousand square
kilometres and somewhat less than 5.5 million inhabit-
ants, is not a large country. It is only a bit larger than
Denmark, Switzerland or Holland. A flight over Slovakia
takes only half an hour.
Slovakia fills the space between Poland in the north
and Hungary in the south. Its western neighbours are
the Czech Republic and Austria while Ukraine lies off
its eastern border (its frontier is the shortest, only 96
kilometres long). Slovakia has no access to the sea. The
nearest sea is the Adriatic in the south (361 km away).
Slovaks who want to bath in the Baltic Sea have to travel
by air some 440 kilometres from the northern frontier.
