Slovakia is a small and colorful country in Central Europe.
Currency: € Euro
Population: 5.5 million
Capital: Bratislava
Surrounding countries:
- Czech Republic (west)
- Austria (south-west)
- Hungary (south)
- Ukraine (east)
- Poland (north)
Slovakia was born as an independent nation-state in 1993, when it peacefully separated from the Czech Republic, splitting from the former Czechoslovakia by mutual agreement. (There has been no organized conflict of any kind in Slovakia since 1945.)
European Union and NATO member state since 2004