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Košice Region is an administrative region located in eastern Slovakia. It matters as a significant economic and cultural area in the country's eastern part, encompassing the city of Košice, Slovakia's second-largest city.
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- Instance of
- region of Slovakia
- Part of
- Eastern Slovakia
- Official name
- Košický kraj
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Slovakia
- Contains
- Rožňava District
- Capital
- Košice
- Population
- 777933
- Area
- 6754.270430
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Banská Bystrica Region
- Highest point
- Stolica
- Official website
- web.vucke.sk
- Image
- Sľubica 001.jpg
- Has parts of class
- district of Slovakia
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- Commons category
- Košice Region
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Košice Region
- topic's main category
- Category:Košice Region
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Košice Region
- category of associated people
- Category:People from the Košice Region
- inception
- 1996-07-24
- P6482
- Košice Region
- native label
- Košický kraj
- language used
- Romani
- replaces
- Eastern Slovakia
- topic has template
- Template:Košice Region
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Encyclopedic overview
The Košice Region (Slovak: Košický kraj, IPA: [ˈkɔʂitskiː ˈkraj]; Hungarian: Kassai kerület; Ukrainian: Кошицький край, romanized: Košyćkyj kraj) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. The region was first established in 1923 and its present borders were established in 1996. It consists of 11 districts (okresy) and 440 municipalities, 17 of which have a town status. About one third of the region's population lives in the agglomeration of Košice, which is its main economic and cultural centre.
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