Region Kopanice
consists of counties:
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 | 134 806 | 134 796 | 134 733 | 134 636 | 134 511 | 134 307 | |
| number of unemployed | 7643 | 8071 | 7382 | 6473 | 5066 | 3592 | 2866 |
| number of long-term unemployed | 3357 | 3501 | 3315 | 2774 | 1876 | 1054 | 662 |
| unemployment rate | 10.4 | 11.5 | 10.5 | 9.3 | 7.2 | 5.1 | 4 |
| long-term unemployment rate | 4.6 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 0.9 |
| assignation tax | 30 932 363 | 30 661 371 | 31 747 482 | 34 973 707 | 38 112 120 | 42 072 965 | 45 679 446 |
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- 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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