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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 number of villages 189.
basic data
rok | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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number of inhabitants | 391 781 | 392 979 | 394 165 | 395 187 | 396 502 | 397 826 | 400 242 | 402 039 |
number of unemployed | 38 552 | 38 830 | 36 164 | 34 513 | 30 042 | 23 838 | 19 693 | 18 401 |
number of long-term unemployed | 21 379 | 22 499 | 21 833 | 19 886 | 16 719 | 12 680 | 9237 | 7774 |
number of people receiving social benefits | 46 702 | 46 622 | 42 604 | 37 021 | 33 642 | 29 650 | 25 794 | 24 459 |
unemployment rate | 21.4 | 21.3 | 19.7 | 18.8 | 16.3 | 13 | 10.6 | 9.8 |
long-term unemployment rate | 11.9 | 12.4 | 11.9 | 10.9 | 9.1 | 6.9 | 5.0 | 4.2 |
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 |
demographic dependency | 16.9 | 17.5 | 18.1 | 18.8 | 19.7 | 20.6 | 21.0 | 21.8 |


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- Basic data on 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
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Current statistics
October 2019: number of unemployed at the labour offices: 166302, of which 57619 are long term unemployed, unemployment rate 6.0% (2.1% long term unemployment)
Highest unemployment: Rimavská Sobota 19.2% (11.1%), Revúca 18.1% (9.4%), Kežmarok 16.9% (7.5%), Rožňava 14.6% (7.8%), Vranov nad Topľou 14.4% (7.1%)
Lowest unemployment:: Bratislava V 2.3%, Trenčín 2.4%, Hlohovec 2.7%, Nitra 2.8%, Ilava 2.8%