Slovakia

Slovakia (Slovak: Slovensko) is a landlocked republic in Central Europe. It borders the Czech Republic in the northwest, Poland in the north, Ukraine in the east, Hungary in the south, and Austria in the southwest.

Name

Slovakia is officially also called the Slovak Republic (in Slovak: Slovenská republika). The short form is linguistically and historically as correct as the long one, just like France vs. French Republic, Slovenia vs. Republic of Slovenia etc.

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The recent practice, especially in economic texts, of using the name Slovak Republic instead of Slovakia, when the terms Hungary, Slovenia etc. are used in the same text, is therefore awkward, arising in analogy to the use of the term Czech Republic, but that is (partly) another problem (see Czech Republic, Czech lands).

Related Topics:
Czech Republic - Czech lands

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