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Region represents an area, which is geomorfologically called Považské Podolie and which follows the basin of the river Váh. It oblongs in SW - NE direction and includes counties from Nové Mesto nad Váhom to Žilina.The common attribute of region is intensive industrial production, mainly engineering. The region is a part of the main line of development (považský rozvojový koridor), which is the result of formation and localization of economy interests centres in the socialist development of Slovakia. Together with the regions of Bratislava, Košice and Banská Bystrica, it generates the main interest of development. Alongside presented regions of main interest, there were forming also others, especially the region around Žilina, which create the form of economy, industrial centres of Slovakia.The whole region is a part of bearing economical - residential segment of development with more than average economy level. In spite of that, there is some part in this regions, where the level is weak. Big factories in Dubnica nad Váhom and Považská Bystrica produced in the past (after world war 2.) an army technology. Throught the convertion to market economy, nowadays they have measurable problems with reorientation of the production. It effects the higher level of unemployment.The area of this region belongs to 9 areas with most endangered environment. The river Váh, which flows through industrial regions reaches in some parts the 4-th degree of polution. The absence of sewage tanks on the right river border in Trenčín causes qualitative degradation of the water also out of this region.
Region middle Vár river contains cities Bytča, Dubnica nad Váhom, Ilava, Nemšová, Nová Dubnica, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Považská Bystrica, Púchov, Rajec, Rajecké Teplice, Stará Turá, Trenčianske Teplice, Trenčín, Žilina and number of villages 192.
| rok | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| number of inhabitants | 530 115 | 530 618 | 530 914 | 532 877 | 533 857 | 534 768 | |
| number of unemployed | 26 996 | 28 374 | 26 318 | 22 856 | 18 708 | 13 107 | 10 212 |
| number of long-term unemployed | 10 204 | 11 296 | 11 482 | 9724 | 7044 | 4193 | 2716 |
| unemployment rate | 10.2 | 10.7 | 10 | 8.6 | 7 | 4.8 | 3.7 |
| long-term unemployment rate | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| assignation tax | 121 363 501 | 120 522 016 | 124 474 537 | 137 930 791 | 150 639 347 | 169 448 139 | 185 370 268 |
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