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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 number of villages 189.
| rok | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| number of inhabitants | 391 770 | 392 964 | 394 156 | 397 048 | 398 688 | 400 244 | |
| number of unemployed | 38 552 | 38 830 | 36 164 | 34 513 | 30 042 | 23 838 | 20 592 |
| number of long-term unemployed | 21 379 | 22 499 | 21 833 | 19 886 | 16 719 | 12 680 | 9964 |
| unemployment rate | 21.4 | 21.3 | 19.7 | 18.8 | 16.3 | 13 | 11 |
| long-term unemployment rate | 11.9 | 12.4 | 11.9 | 10.9 | 9.1 | 6.9 | 5.3 |
| assignation tax | 97 702 749 | 94 950 045 | 98 660 730 | 109 712 192 | 119 850 260 | 133 782 810 | 143 289 860 |
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