These traditional regions of Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 are mostly former counties of the Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...

, of which present-day Slovakia was part until 1918, but some other historical regions are also listed. See History of Slovakia

History of Slovakia

This article discusses the history of the territory of Slovakia.- Palaeolithic :Radiocarbon dating puts the oldest surviving archaeological artifacts from Slovakia - found near Nové Mesto nad Váhom - at 270,000 BCE, in the Early Paleolithic era...

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Counties

There were 20 (earlier 21) counties

Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary)

A county is the name of a type of administrative units in the Kingdom of Hungary and in Hungary from the 10th century until the present day....

 of the Kingdom of Hungary situated completely or partly in present-day Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

. After the creation of Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

, they continued to exist until 1922. Most are still referred to informally.

Counties that are completely incorporated in Slovakia

Slovak Slovak language Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...  name	Hungarian Hungarian language Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....  name
Nitra Nitra county Nyitra county is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary...	Nyitra
Tekov Tekov Tekov [Hungarian: Bars] is the traditional name of a region situated in southern and central Slovakia. Its territory encompasses the former Bars county, existing in the Kingdom of Hungary from the 11th century until 1918, though it is now administratively divided between the Nitra and Banská...	Bars
Trenčín Trencín county Trencsén county is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary...	Trencsén
Turiec Turiec Turóc , , /comitatus Thurociensis) is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary...	Turóc
Liptov Liptov Liptó is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in northern Slovakia.-Geography:...	Liptó
Zvolen Zvolen county Zólyom county is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary...	Zólyom
Šariš Šariš For the beer brand see Šariš .Šariš is the traditional name of a region situated in northeastern Slovakia. It encompasses the territory of the former Sáros county.-History:...	Sáros

Counties that are partly included in Slovakia

• Mošoň
  Moson
  Moson was a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day eastern Austria and northwestern Hungary, on the right side of the Danube river...
  
   (Hungarian
  Hungarian language
  Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
  
  : Moson, almost wholly in present-day Hungary)
• Prešporok
  Bratislava county
  Pozsony county was a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory lies in present-day western Slovakia.Its name changed along with that of the city of Pozsony, today's Bratislava...
  
   (today's Bratislava, in Hungarian
  Hungarian language
  Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
  
  : Pozsony, almost wholly in Slovakia)
• Gemer-Malohont
  Gemer
  Gemer is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. In the 19th century, and in the beginning of the 20th century, it was united with the Kishont region to form Gömör-Kishont county . Its territory is presently in southern Slovakia and northern Hungary...
  
   (Hungarian: Gömör-Kishont, almost wholly in Slovakia)
• Ráb
  Gyor (county)
  Győr county was a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day north-western Hungary and south-western Slovakia , mostly on the right side of the Danube river...
  
   (Hungarian: Győr, almost wholly in present-day Hungary)
• Komárno county (Hungarian: Komárom, southern part in present-day Hungary)
• Ostrihom county (Hungarian: Esztergom, southern part in present-day Hungary)
• Hont
  Hont
  Hont is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary and then shortly of Czechoslovakia...
  
   (almost wholly in Slovakia)
• Novohrad (Hungarian: Nógrád, southern part in present-day Hungary)
• Abov
  Abov
  Abov is:* historically the Slovak name of a county in the Kingdom of Hungary * today an informal designation of the part of that county situated in Slovakia, as well as the official name of one of Slovakia's tourist regions...
  
  -Turňa
  Turna
  Torna is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary...
  
   (Hungarian: Abaúj-Torna, southern part in present-day Hungary)
• Zemplín
  Zemplín
  Zemplén is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently situated in eastern Slovakia under the name of Zemplín...
  
   (Hungarian: Zemplén, southern part in Hungary)
• Uh county
  Uzh county
  Ung county is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary...
  
   (Hungarian: Ung, eastern part in Ukraine)
• Orava
  Orava (region)
  Orava is the traditional name of a region situated in northern Slovakia and partially also in southern Poland . It encompasses the territory of the former Árva county.-History:...
  
   (Hungarian: Árva, northern part annexed by Poland in 1919)
• Spiš
  Spiš
  Spiš is a region in north-eastern Slovakia, with a very small area in south-eastern Poland. Spiš is an informal designation of the territory , but it is also the name of one the 21 official tourism regions of Slovakia...
  
   (Hungarian: Szepes, northern part annexed by Poland in 1919)

Other traditional regions

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

Region	Former County part	Former County
Kysuce Kysuce Kysuce is a traditional informal name of a region in north-western Slovakia, situated around the Kysuca river and bordering the Orava region in the east and the Czech Republic in the west. It consists of two districts, Čadca and Kysucké Nové Mesto. The region is surrounded by the numerous mountain...	northern	Trenčín
Záhorie Záhorie Záhorie is a region in western Slovakia bordered by the Little Carpathians in the east and the Morava River in the west. Although not an administrative region in its own right, it is one of the 21 official tourism regions in Slovakia...	western	Nitra
		Bratislava
Podpoľanie	southern	Zvolen
Zamagurie Zamagurie Zamagurie is an area in the north of the Spiš region, between the Spišská Magura in the south, Dunajec river in the north and Białka river in the west...	northern	Spiš

See also

• List of historic counties of Hungary
• List of tourism regions of Slovakia
• Regions of Slovakia
  Regions of Slovakia
  Since 1949 , Slovakia has been divided into a number of kraje . Their number, borders and functions have been changed several times. There are currently eight regions of Slovakia and they correspond to the EU's NUTS 3 level of local administrative units. Each kraj consists of okresy...