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SLOVAKIA

Population: 5.48 million

Capital: Bratislava49 035 square km

GEOGRAPHY Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic,Romania and Austria

Man peering out of a man-Hole made by Viktor HulikIn Bratislava, Slovakia

ClimographOf the weatherIn one year

The ‘man peering out of a hole”Is a popular and regularlyVisited statue in Bratislava becausePeople like the unique twist of aStatue in the ground.

-modern-art-street-culture-man made

ARCHAEOLOGY

• 400- Slavs inhabited the region now known as Slovakia and Czech Republic• 1918- Czechs and Slovaks came together,

creating Czechoslovakia• 1942- Approximately 57,000 Jews deported to

Poland in WW11, and most of them were killed.• 1969- The nation then became the Slovak

Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia• 1992- Slovakia's government declared its

independence from Czechoslovakia, creating it’s own country separated from the Czechs.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / SOCIOLOGY

• The government is parliamentary democtatic.• They have a PM and a PRE: Ivan Gasparovic and

Robert Fico

Slovakia became an independent country when it separated It’s connection with Czech Republic in January 1992. It was calledCzechoslovakia before. Czech Republic now borders Slovakia to it’s west.

ECONOMICS• Slovakia produces brown coal and lignite,

some iron, copper and manganese ore, arable land and salt.

• German, Czech Republic, France and Poland are their biggest trade-exports.

• Slovakia’s money is called ‘Euro’.

Banks: Eximbanka SRNational Bank of Slovakia

ECONOMICS• Slovakia produces brown coal and lignite,

some iron, copper and manganese ore, arable land and salt.

• German, Czech Republic, France and Poland are their biggest trade-exports.

• Slovakia’s money is called ‘Euro’.

Banks: Eximbanka SRNational Bank of Slovakia

SOCIAL WELFARE

• Slovakia offers low-cost a social welfare system attending to the un accessible basic needs of no income citizens. •

HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS

Devin Castle

Created in 864 And in power until The 15th century. It was last re-constructed In the 17th century.

WEBSITES USED

• Natural resources: http://www.indexmundi.com/slovakia/natural_resources.html

• Wikipedia page used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia

• Capital information: http://www.google.ca/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=bratislava+population&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=5BpPUsrxLM3ligKdwYG4DQ

• Population information: http://www.google.ca/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=bratislava+population&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=5BpPUsrxLM3ligKdwYG4DQ#q=slovakia+population&rls=en