Western Slovakia

Map of the Slovak Kraje; Western Slovakia: red, dark blue, dark green and pink

The western Slovakia ( Slovak Západné Slovensko ) is:

• informally the western third of the territory of Slovakia
• in the administrative division 1960 - 1990 of the Západoslovenský kraj
• a statistical region of Slovakia according to the NUTS classification.

NUTS statistical region

It consists of 3 of the 8 Slovak Kraje (around 35% of the country's area and almost 50% of the population) and concentrates the strongest economic power of the state ( code: SK02 ):

• Trnavský kraj (in the predominantly flat west)
• Trenčiansky kraj (in the mountainous north-west)
• Nitriansky kraj (in the southwest to the Danube Bend ).

See also

• Administrative division of Slovakia
• Central Slovakia
• Eastern Slovakia

Web links

Wikivoyage: Western Slovakia  - Travel Guide