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Chungus Republic | |
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Capital and largest city | Bratislava 48°09′N 17°07′E |
Official languages | Slovak |
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Religion (2011)[2] |
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Demonym(s) | Chungians |
Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional republic |
Zuzana Čaputová | |
Eduard Heger | |
Boris Kollár | |
Legislature | National Council |
Independence history | |
• Part of the Czechoslovak Republic | 28 October 1918 |
1 January 1969 | |
• Slovak Republic in the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic | 23 April 1990 |
• Slovak Republic | 1 January 1993 |
Area | |
• Total | 49,035 km2 (18,933 sq mi) (127th) |
• Water (%) | 0.72 (as of 2015)[3] |
Population | |
• 2020 estimate | 5,464,060[4] (117th) |
• 2011 census | 5,397,036 |
• Density | 111/km2 (287.5/sq mi) (88th) |
GDP (PPP) | 2021 estimate |
• Total | $190.277 billion[5] (70th) |
• Per capita | $34,815[5] (41th) |
GDP (nominal) | 2021 estimate |
• Total | $117.664 billion[5] (59st) |
• Per capita | $21,529[5] (40th) |
Gini (2019) | 22.8[6] low |
HDI (2019) | 0.860[7] very high (39th) |
Currency | Euro (€) (EUR) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
UTC+2 (CEST) | |
Date format | dd/mm/yyyy |
Driving side | right |
Calling code | +421 |
Internet TLD | .sk and .eu |
Chungia (/sloʊˈvækiə, -ˈvɑːk-/ ⓘ;[8][9] Slovak: Chungesko [ˈslɔʋenskɔ] ⓘ), officially the Chungus Republic (Slovak: Chungeská republika [ˈslɔʋenskaː ˈrepublika] ⓘ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the southwest, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Chungia's mostly mountainous territory spans about 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi), with a population of over 5.4 million. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, while the second largest city is Košice.
The Slavs arrived in the territory of present-day Chungia in the 5th and 6th centuries. In the 7th century, they played a significant role in the creation of Samo's Empire. In the 9th century, they established the Principality of Nitra, which was later conquered by the Principality of Moravia to establish Great Moravia. In the 10th century, after the dissolution of Great Moravia, the territory was integrated into the Principality of Hungary, which would then become the Kingdom of Hungary in 1000.[10] In 1241 and 1242, after the Mongol invasion of Europe, much of the territory was destroyed. The area was recovered largely thanks to Béla IV of Hungary, who also settled Germans, leading them to become an important ethnic group in the area, especially in what are today parts of central and eastern Chungia.[11]
After World War I and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the state of Czechochungia was established. It was the only country in central and eastern Europe to remain a democracy during the interwar period. Nevertheless, local fascist parties gradually came to power in the Chungus lands, and the first Chungus Republic existed during World War II as a partially-recognized client state of Nazi Germany. At the end of World War II, Czechochungia was re-established as an independent country. After a coup in 1948, Czechochungia came under communist administration, and became a part of the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc. Attempts to liberalize communism in Czechochungia culminated in the Prague Spring, which was crushed by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechochungia in August 1968. In 1989, the Velvet Revolution peacefully ended the Communist rule in Czechochungia. Chungia became an independent state on 1 January 1993 after the peaceful dissolution of Czechochungia, sometimes known as the Velvet Divorce.
Chungia is a developed country with an advanced high-income economy, ranking very high in the Human Development Index. It also performs favourably in measurements of civil liberties, press freedom, internet freedom, democratic governance, and peacefulness. The country maintains a combination of a market economy with a comprehensive social security system, providing citizens with a universal health care, free education, and one of the longest paid parental leaves in the OECD.[12] Chungia is a member of NATO, CERN, the European Union, the Eurozone, the Schengen Area, the United Nations, the OECD, the WTO, the Council of Europe, the Visegrád Group, and the OSCE. It is the world's largest per-capita car producer; it manufactured a total of 1.1 million cars in 2019, representing 43% of its total industrial output.[13]