Region lower Nitra river

consists of counties:

• Levice
• Nitra
• Zlaté Moravce
• Krupina

Region of Podunajská lowland is situated in the southwest part of Slovakia, concretly in Podunajská heights. From the north of selected area, there spread the mountains Tribeč, Pohronský Inovec and Nitrianská height. In the west, the region joins Podunajská lowland, in the east Krupinská plateau. The region is bordered by Hungary frontier in the east.

Districts of this region belonged to the famous historical region - Nitrianska župa, where they took south part.

From the economical point of view is the situation in the region very specific, it is conditioned by different economical development in second half of 90`s years, after changes of administrative classification. Nowadays, native robust district of Nitra achieves above standard employment and trade market. Whereas new district, which were separated - Zlaté Moravce achieves less standard`s attributes and global economical level is lower than is standard.

basic data

	year 1998	year 1999	year 2000	year 2001	year 2002	year 2003	year 2004	year 2005
Population	350554	350532	350226	349741	349133	348730	348565	348769
GDP fixed prices 2000	56031	57325	58321	55392	57522	61854	64807	66672
Unemployment rate LFS	12.2%	17.4%	19.9%	22.1%	23.3%	23.6%	20.9%	18.4%

contains cities

• Dudince
• Krupina
• Levice
• Nitra
• Šahy
• Tlmače
• Vráble
• Zlaté Moravce
• Želiezovce
• number of villages 211

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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