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Located in the center of Europe, Slovakia extends along the northwestern end of the Carpathian mountain range, forming a physical barrier between the plains of Poland to the north and those of Hungary to the south. X to a long Hungarian domination, he experienced various historical vicissitudes that led him, at the end of the First World War, to join the Czechoslovakian team to become in 1939, with the German occupation of Prague, a pro-Nazi satellite state. In 1945, liberated by the Soviet army, Slovakia once again became part of Czechoslovakia from which it split peacefully in 1993 becoming an independent republic. In the following years, the country continued to maintain good diplomatic and commercial relations with the Czech Republic and other Central European countries, managing to re-establish a good relationship with Hungary thanks to the ratification of an agreement (in 1996) to protect the Hungarian minority present in Slovakian territory: a relationship that became tense again after the decision of the Bratislava government to promote Slovak as a single state language. Starting in the late nineties, the criticisms leveled at the autocratic policy of Prime Minister V. Mečiar and an economy still too controlled by the state led the successive administrations to adopt a more incisive policy of political and social reforms. European Union, to which Slovakia officially joined on 1 May 2004. According to COUNTRYAAH, Slovakia is a nation in Eastern Europe, the capital city of which is Bratislava. The latest population of Slovakia is 5,459,653. MYSTERYAROUND: Lists and descriptions of main religions and beliefs in Slovakia, including religion demographics and statistics on Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
The Slovakian territory is largely mountainous and is dominated by the western Carpathian chains that form an external arc to the west, including the Little Carpathians, the White Carpathians and the western Beskids while at the center of the system rise the peaks of the High Tatras, where there is the highest peak in the country, Mount Gerlach (2655 m), and those of the Low Tatras to which some minor chains, such as the Slovak Ore Mountains, are connected in the south-eastern area. The southern foothills of the Carpathians are flanked by fertile plains: to the SW the Michalovce plain, crossed by the Ondava, to the Southeast that of Bratislava, the widest Slovak plain, crossed by the Váh (first Slovak river with its 433 km) and the Danube. All Slovak rivers, with the exception of the Poprad to the North, flow directly or indirectly into the Danube; the Morava, which marks the border line with Austria, the Nitra and the Hron, the Hornad, the Bodrog and the Ondava to the East, the Tisza to the Southeast. The climate is continental and humid, with numerous precipitations and generally variable meteorological conditions. From spring to autumn, mild but rather rainy weather conditions can occur. Winters, in particular in the Carpathians, are rigid and rainfall is abundant (everywhere exceeding 1000 mm per year), while the flat regions are characterized by a drier climate and high summer temperatures.