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Wednesday, 11 March 2026
37 facts about Slovakia
37 facts about Slovakia
A land of castles and palaces
Slovakia is a small landlocked country that was established in its present form after the division of Czechoslovakia in 1993. It is one of the countri ...

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Austria
Austria is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
It borders eight countries: Germany in the northwest, the Czech Republic in the north, Slovakia in t ...
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein has no airport.
Only one private heliport operates there.
Czech Republic
The capital of the Czech Republic and its largest city is Prague.
It is the only separate city with the status of a country. Prague is located in the western part of ...
Bulgaria
The capital of the country and the largest city in Bulgaria is Sofia, a city located in the western part of the country, at the foot of the Vitosha massif.
The city lies on the Bojana River, which is a left tributary of the Iskar River (the right tributary ...
Slovakia
Between 1003 and 1031, the lands of today's Slovakia were part of the Kingdom of Poland, after being annexed by Bolesław I the Brave.
During the reign of Saint Stephen I, today's lands of Slovakia were incorporated into the Kingdom of ...
Ireland
Ireland is a parliamentary republic with an elected president who serves as head of state.
Ireland's legal system is based on case law and legislation passed by Parliament under the constitut ...
Cuba
Cuba has characteristic soils belonging to the Caribbean soil region.
Much of the country is covered with red feralitic soils (characteristic of tropical equatorial and s ...
Zanzibar
It belongs entirely to Tanzania and is part of its autonomous part, Zanzibar.
Tanzania (United Republic of Tanzania) is a country in eastern Africa created from the merger of for ...
Thailand
Thailand is located in Southeast Asia on the Indochina Peninsula.
It lies between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. From the west, it is surrounded by the Andam ...
England
Windsor Castle, an official residence of the Royal Family, is the oldest and the largest permanently inhabited castle in the world.