Mezei István: Urban development in Slovakia (Pécs-Somorja, 2010)

5. Regional organization in Slovakia

Regional development role of towns

ed as internal peripheries, such as the Detva, Poltár, Gelnica, Sabinov and Vranov nad Topľou districts. The majority of them can be found along the border and are borderland peripheries, such as the Čadca and Námestovo districts along the Czech and Polish borders, the Kežmarok, Stará Ľubovňa, Bardejov, Stropkov, Medzilaborce and Snina districts along the Polish border, Sobrance (and partly the above mentioned Snina) district along the Ukrainian border and the Veľký Krtľš, Rimavská Sobota, Revúca, Rožňava, Košice-area and Trebišov districts along the Hungarian border. All in all, these areas divide the country into two parts, a more developed western part and a less developed one in the east, along a Veľký Krtíš- Kežmarok axis.

Thus, districts of very different levels of development can be found along the Hungarian and Slovak border, from Bratislava at a European level, through the districts along the Danube, whose level of development is still satisfactory, to the backward eastern districts, where the city Košice is the only one to stand out with its high level of development (Korec 2007).

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