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, Senica, Skalica, Šaštín-Stráže and number of villages 62.

basic data

rok	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
number of inhabitants	134 805	134 792	134 729	135 470	135 703	135 914
number of unemployed	7643	8071	7382	6473	5066	3592	2885
number of long-term unemployed	3357	3501	3315	2774	1876	1054	676
unemployment rate	10.4	11.5	10.5	9.3	7.2	5.1	4.1
long-term unemployment rate	4.6	5.0	4.7	4.0	2.7	1.5	1.0
assignation tax	30 932 363	30 661 371	31 747 482	34 973 707	38 112 120	42 072 965	45 679 446

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

similar articles: lower Zemplín , Košice fold and Torysa river , Juhoslovenská kotlina , Danube river , upper Hron river