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.

Region Kopanice contains cities Brezová pod Bradlom, Gbely, Holíč, Myjava, Šaštín-Stráže, Senica, Skalica and number of villages 62.

basic data

number of unemployed

Other regions

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

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - Region Kopanice, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/kopanice