Region Kopanice

consists of counties:

• Senica
• Skalica
• Myjava

Region is situated in the west of Slovakia, at the frontier witch Czech republic. The relief is mostly upland. In the north spreads the mountain called Biele Karpaty, the eastern frontier is represented by the river Váh. In the south and west interfers the northern part of plain Záhorská. The western frontier is represented by the river Morava, which is at the same time a frontier with Czech republic.

The region is characteristic especially by rural settlement, for the most part it is settled very sparsely. It represents special type of settlement, called Kopanice. It was one of the conditions which helped to select the region. Largely, the region is similar because of its geomorfological, cultural and social-economical conditions.

It belongs to the middle developed regions. More developed county from selected seems to be Skalica. It achieves better coefficients in several social - economical characteristics, such as production activity, employment, business activities and in whole economical and social level. Senica and Skalica achieve similar level of economical and social level, in fact one grade smaller than Skalica. From the aspect of business activity, they belong to the worst out of all west of Slovakia. A situation in Myjava became more complicated when a biggest corporation which employed a quarter of economic active persons, get to bankrupt, it led to increase of unemployment.

basic data

	year 1998	year 1999	year 2000	year 2001	year 2002	year 2003	year 2004	year 2005
Population	137376	137387	137301	136747	136392	136401	136504	136411
GDP fixed prices 2000	22062	21775	21636	21787	23200	24450	25479	27377
Unemployment rate LFS	11.4%	13%	17.5%	18.3%	13.5%	12%	12.1%	10.1%

contains cities

• Brezová pod Bradlom
• Gbely
• Holíč
• Myjava
• Senica
• Skalica
• Šaštín-Stráže
• number of villages 62

Other regions

• Basic data
• Bratislava and surroundings
• Kopanice
• Danube river
• lower Vah river
• middle Vár river
• upper Nitra river
• lower Nitra river
• Mining cities
• Kysuce a Orava
• upper Vah river - Liptov
• Spiš cities
• upper Hron river
• Juhoslovenská kotlina
• Košice fold and Torysa river
• upper Zemplín
• lower Zemplín

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