Region Juhoslovenská kotlina

consists of counties:

• Lučenec
• Poltár
• Revúca
• Rimavská Sobota
• Veľký Krtíš
• Rožňava

Region is situated in the south part of central Slovakia. Geomorphologicaly it belongs to Juhoslovenská kotlina (fold). In selected region, it occurs: Ipeľská fold, Rimavská fold and there spreads sequently Slovenský kras from the east.

Region with its great positional potential represents frontier region with Hungary and lies at the natural flowline between two greatest economic centres of Slovakia, between Bratislava and Košice. There lead energetic duct of european interests: oilduct, gass anf energetic distribution. Transit and railway network allow north-south international (Warshaw – Budapest) as well as west – east connection. Central part of region – Poiplie (drainage of river Ipeľ) represents one of the most ecologicaly clean areas in Euprope. Low charge of soil by industrial exhalats alows agricultural production with negligible content of harmful substances. Agricultural soil represents around 52 % of area. Juhoslovenská fold with medium climatic condition, warm clima and lowest windy conditions in Slovakia, beauty and diversification of the nature is an adequate place for living, working and relaxation. The town with a biggest meaning in Juhoslovenská fold is Lučenec, which was native centre of this region for longtime.

Region dispose with important potential of non-metallic raw material. In spite of this situation, it achieves lowest degree of economical development as other regions of Slovakia. The cause liest on insufficient sharing of its positional and natural potential, demographic and economic resources and possibilities of their improvement.

Almost in all district is bad, alarm situation on labour markets. Nowadays, these districts belong to the poorest slovak regions, with unemployment rate rising to 25 %. Today, the region achieves very low production rate. There isn`t neither taken advantage of natural potential, nor of existing technical infrastructure. Out of technic – traffic infrastructure there is only one town, Lučenec, which achieves upper standard. Railway network responds to slovak parameters only in this town. MOre interesting is situation from the point of view of realisation south transit line. Because of position in the middle part of Slovakia is Lučenec predetermined to be an important travel node between Bratislava and Košice.

This region was formed by necessary of retaining historical area of Gemer in aggregate form, as a part of gemer-novohrad region.

Region Juhoslovenská kotlina contains cities Dobšiná, Fiľakovo, Hnúšťa, Jelšava, Lučenec, Modrý Kameň, Poltár, Revúca, Rimavská Sobota, Rožňava, Tisovec, Tornaľa, Veľký Krtíš and 348 villages. Viac aj na oma.sk.

Basic data

rok	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
number of inhabitants	330 680	329 910	329 096	327 925	327 109	326 122	325 110	323 721	322 501	309 416	325 362
number of unemployed	48 321	48 646	46 176	42 912	37 850	29 903	24 710	22 260	24 957	26 095	23 311
number of long-term unemployed	31 156	32 423	32 161	29 187	24 344	18 595	13 471	11 644	12 100	14 714	13 638
number of people receiving social benefits	59 001	59 737	55 795	48 522	42 677	37 655	31 534	28 521	27 436	25 320	25 335
number of activational workers	17 791	16 770	16 559	15 160	12 669	9898	7199	6671	6669	5933	6590
unemployment rate	30.8	30.3	29.2	27.2	24.2	19.5	15.8	14.4	16.3	17.1	15.8
long-term unemployment rate	19.9	20.2	20.3	18.5	15.5	12.1	8.6	7.5	7.9	9.7	9.2
assignation tax	66 919 300	68 853 947	71 885 446	78 727 965	85 822 304	95 689 701	103 386 289	116 283 275	119 489 335	114 296 658	126 383 525
demographic dependency	19.7	20.3	21.0	21.7	22.7	23.7	24.8	25.8	26.8	27.2	27.9

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
less than 24 years	9861	8222	7343	6322	5057	3635	2738	2487	3043	3127	2730
25 to 39 years	20 819	18 259	17 136	15 758	13 695	10 406	8251	7352	8295	8483	7605
40 to 54 years	18 734	16 578	15 999	15 104	13 665	10 920	9117	8188	8984	9417	8454
55 years and more	5881	5587	5698	5728	5433	4942	4603	4234	4636	5068	4522

least developed regions

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• Basic data on Slovak regions
• Labour market indicators of slovak regions.
• Region Bratislava and surroundings
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• Region Mining cities
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  • Orava
• Region upper Vah river – Liptov
• Region Spiš cities
• Region upper Hron river
• Region Juhoslovenská kotlina
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Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - Region Juhoslovenská kotlina, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/juhoslovenska-kotlina

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