Okres Dolný Kubín

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Basic information Okres Dolný Kubín
Kraj :	Žilinský kraj
Area :	491.87 km²
Residents :	39,417 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	80.12 inhabitants / km²
License plate :	DK
District code:	503
Administrative division
Cities:	1
Municipalities (excluding cities):	23
Statistics information about the Okres on statistics.sk

The Okres Dolny Kubin is an administrative unit in the north of Slovakia with 39 417 inhabitants (31 December 2019) and an area of 490 square kilometers within the kraj Žilinský . Clockwise it borders on the following Okresy: Námestovo in the north, Tvrdošín in the east, Liptovský Mikuláš in the southeast, Ružomberok in the south, Martin in the southwest, Žilina in the west and Čadca in the northwest, all in Žilinský kraj.

Geography and traffic

The Okres belongs to the traditional Orava (German Arwa ) landscape and is around 130 km² smaller than an "average" Okres. It extends on the lower reaches of the Orava River , which flows into the Waag in the extreme southwest . The river has an average discharge rate of 34.5 m³ / s at Dierová and its longest tributary is the 21 km long Zázrivá , which flows into the Orava in Párnica . The valley is surrounded by numerous mountains, such as Oravská Magura in the north, Skorušinské vrchy in the east, Chočské vrchy in the south and Great and Little Fatra in the west. All of these mountains are part of the Outer Western Carpathians . Overall, the Okres has the character of a mountain region in the lower parts and a highland in the upper parts. The Veľký Choč ( 1611 m nm ) in the Chočské vrchy and the Minčol ( 1394 m nm ) in the Oravská Magura are among the highest peaks . The lowest point ( 435 m nm ) is in Kraľovany.

The most important roads are State Road 59 (E 77), which runs from Ružomberok across Dolný Kubín and on to Poland via Tvrdošín, and State Road 70 is the connection to the west, where in Kraovany it becomes West-East State Road 18 (E 50) opens. The network is supplemented by state road 78 , a connection from Oravský Podzámok to Námestovo and on to Poland, as well as state road 583, which leads to Zázrivá and on to Žilina . A section of the R3 expressway around Oravský Podzámok has so far been completed from the high-level road network . The single-track railway line Kraľovany – Suchá Hora , which copies the course of the Orava, runs through the Okres , with stations in Párnica, Dolný Kubín, Medzibrodie nad Oravou and Oravský Podzámok. In Kraľovany there is a connection to the electrified and double-track railway line Žilina – Košice .

Historical administrative units

Historically, the district is almost entirely in the former Arwa county , a small part in the extreme southwest on the bank of the Waag ( Kraľovany area ) belongs to the former Liptov county (see also the list of historical counties in Hungary ). There was a chair district there called Alsókubin , but without the surrounding area of Oravský Podzámok, which was an independent chair district. An okres called Dolný Kubín was created in 1923 and, with the exception of Valaská Dubová, was identical to today's one. This belonged 1923-28 to the administrative unit Považská župa (Waager County) and 1928-39 to the Slovak country. During the First Slovak Republic , the Okres was part of Tatranská župa (Tatra County). In the administrative structure of the restored Czechoslovakia it belonged to the Žilinský kraj from 1949-60 (not to be confused with today's), now without the municipality of Valaská Dubová. After all, he was in the years 1960-90 part of the enlarged Okres Dolný Kubín, within the Stredoslovenský kraj (Central Slovak Regional Association), which in fact included the Slovak part of the historical Orava landscape. Today's Okres was set up in the now independent Slovakia in 1996 as part of the new administrative structure and assigned to Žilinský kraj.

population

In terms of population, the Okres is also less populated than the Slovak average. The only town is Dolný Kubín (18,665 inhabitants) and with Zázrivá (2,615 inhabitants) there is only one municipality over 2,000 inhabitants.