Region Spiš cities

consists of counties:

• Kežmarok
• Levoča
• Poprad
• Stará Ľubovňa
• Gelnica
• Spišská Nová Ves

Region of Spiš`s towns spreads in northeast part of Slovakia. The area is very heterogenous. There flows rivers - Hornád, Hnilec, Dunajec and Poprad throught the folds. In the north occurs mountains Spišská Magura and Levočské vrchy, in the south Volovské vrchy and Slovenský raj. West border is made by the biggest mountain of Slovakia - Vysoké Tatry, east part is delimited by upland Šarišská vrchovina. The area of historical and recent Spiš pass throught national natural parks Slovenký Raj, TANAP and national park Pieniny. The skeleton of the region is represented by the river valleys - Poprad and Hornád, where live a majority of region`s population.

It deals of large region, which districts are historical interconnected. Also nowadays has the region relationship with other regions in Poland. Small part of historical region lies in today's south Poland, between rivers Dunajec and Bialka and slovak national frontier.

Even though that this region was very rich in the past, today it deals with heavy economical problems, espacially with large unemployment, getting to 17%. Unemployment in this region befall specially social group of gypsies. The lowest unemployment rate is achieved in districts Stará Lubovňa (11%) and Poprad (13%). However, the economic situation improve each year, mainly thanks to foreign investments (Whirlpool in Poprad, Embraco in Spišská Nová Ves and others).

basic data

	year 1998	year 1999	year 2000	year 2001	year 2002	year 2003	year 2004	year 2005
Population	335738	337536	339242	343410	344690	345674	346972	348283
GDP fixed prices 2000	36202	34772	35540	38422	40072	48558	49752	52915
Unemployment rate LFS	17.4%	20.6%	23.8%	22.9%	21.4%	20.9%	23.4%	21.8%

contains cities

• Gelnica
• Kežmarok
• Krompachy
• Levoča
• Podolínec
• Poprad
• Spišská Belá
• Spišská Nová Ves
• Spišská Stará Ves
• Spišské Podhradie
• Spišské Vlachy
• Stará Ľubovňa
• Svit
• Vysoké Tatry
• number of villages 190

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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