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Region Spiš cities
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Region of Spiš`s towns spreads in northeast part of Slovakia. The area is very heterogenous. There flows rivers – Hornád, Hnilec, Dunajec and Poprad throught the folds. In the north occurs mountains Spišská Magura and Levočské vrchy, in the south Volovské vrchy and Slovenský raj. West border is made by the biggest mountain of Slovakia – Vysoké Tatry, east part is delimited by upland Šarišská vrchovina. The area of historical and recent Spiš pass throught national natural parks Slovenký Raj, TANAP and national park Pieniny. The skeleton of the region is represented by the river valleys – Poprad and Hornád, where live a majority of region`s population.
It deals of large region, which districts are historical interconnected. Also nowadays has the region relationship with other regions in Poland. Small part of historical region lies in today's south Poland, between rivers Dunajec and Bialka and slovak national frontier.
Even though that this region was very rich in the past, today it deals with heavy economical problems, espacially with large unemployment, getting to 17 %. Unemployment in this region befall specially social group of gypsies. The lowest unemployment rate is achieved in districts Stará Lubovňa (11 %) and Poprad (13 %). However, the economic situation improve each year, mainly thanks to foreign investments (Whirlpool in Poprad, Embraco in Spišská Nová Ves and others).
Region Spiš cities contains cities Gelnica, Kežmarok, Krompachy, Levoča, Podolínec, Poprad, Spišská Belá, Spišská Nová Ves, Spišská Stará Ves, Spišské Podhradie, Spišské Vlachy, Stará Ľubovňa, Svit, Vysoké Tatry and 189 villages. Viac aj na oma.sk.

Basic data
rok | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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number of inhabitants | 391 770 | 392 964 | 394 156 | 395 238 | 396 562 | 397 895 | 398 913 | 399 968 | 401 099 | 393 019 | 406 905 |
number of unemployed | 38 552 | 38 830 | 36 164 | 34 513 | 30 042 | 23 838 | 19 693 | 18 307 | 21 036 | 21 596 | 19 315 |
number of long-term unemployed | 21 379 | 22 499 | 21 833 | 19 886 | 16 719 | 12 680 | 9237 | 7697 | 8439 | 10 438 | 9495 |
number of people receiving social benefits | 46 702 | 46 622 | 42 604 | 37 021 | 33 642 | 29 795 | 25 794 | 24 406 | 24 173 | 21 623 | 23 694 |
number of activational workers | 6526 | 6304 | 6256 | 5174 | 4599 | 3513 | 2842 | 2806 | 2862 | 2213 | 2632 |
unemployment rate | 21.4 | 21.3 | 19.7 | 18.8 | 16.3 | 13 | 10.6 | 9.8 | 11.3 | 11.8 | 10.7 |
long-term unemployment rate | 11.9 | 12.4 | 11.9 | 10.9 | 9.1 | 6.9 | 5.0 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 5.7 | 5.2 |
assignation tax | 97 702 749 | 94 950 045 | 98 660 730 | 109 712 192 | 119 850 260 | 133 782 810 | 143 289 860 | 162 656 004 | 168 388 697 | 162 680 441 | 183 146 599 |
demographic dependency | 16.9 | 17.5 | 18.1 | 18.9 | 19.8 | 20.6 | 21.5 | 22.4 | 23.3 | 24.0 | 23.7 |


Number of unemployed
rok | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
less than 24 years | 9924 | 8268 | 7280 | 6694 | 5480 | 4014 | 3163 | 2968 | 3550 | 3373 | 2884 |
25 to 39 years | 16 653 | 14 614 | 13 584 | 12 985 | 11 272 | 8827 | 7198 | 6682 | 7657 | 7642 | 7020 |
40 to 54 years | 13 908 | 12 358 | 11 683 | 11 212 | 9902 | 7960 | 6617 | 6064 | 6790 | 7209 | 6376 |
55 years and more | 3686 | 3590 | 3617 | 3622 | 3387 | 3036 | 2715 | 2594 | 3038 | 3373 | 3035 |

Other regions
- Basic data on Slovak regions
- Labour market indicators of 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 Spiš cities, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/spis-cities

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