Counties

20 (earlier 21) counties of the Kingdom of Hungary were situated in present-day Slovakia (completely or partly). After the creation of Czechoslovakia, they continued to exist till 1922. Most of them are still used informally for the corresponding territory:

• Counties, which are completely incorporated in Slovakia are:
  • Nitra county
  • Tekov
  • Trenčín county
  • Turiec
  • Orava
  • Liptov
  • Zvolen
  • Spiš
  • Šariš

• Counties, which are partly incorporated in Slovakia are:
  • Mošoň (almost whole in present-day Hungary)
  • Prešporok county(Bratislava county) (almost whole in Slovakia)
  • Gemer-Malohont (almost whole in Slovakia)
  • Ráb (almost whole in present-day Hungary)
  • Komárno county (southern part in present-day Hungary)
  • Ostrihom county (southern part in present-day Hungary)
  • Hont (southern part in present-day Hungary)
  • Novohrad (southern part in present-day Hungary)
  • Abov-Turňa (southern part in present-day Hungary)
  • Zemplín (sountern part in Hungary, eastern in Ukraine)
  • Uh county (eastern part in the Ukraine).

Other traditional regions

There are also other regions in Slovakia, which do not correspond to historical counties:

• • Kysuce - northern part of the former Trenčín county
  • Záhorie - western part of the former Nitra and Bratislava county
  • Podpoľanie - southern part of the former Zvolen county
  • Zamagurie - northern part of the former Spiš county

Internal links

• List of tourism regions of Slovakia
• Regions of Slovakia