Map of Slovakia

Slovakia is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 48.7° N, 19.5° E. Slovakia is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 5 neighbours — Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine — with no coastline of its own. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Slovakia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Slovakia is surrounded by the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Slovakia covers about 49,037 km² (18,933 sq mi). That makes it the 127th-largest country in the world by area and the 27th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 18 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 5,413,813, the 121st-largest in the world and the 26th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.7% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Slovakia has an average population density of about 110 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 26th by population and 27th by area.

The seat of government is Bratislava, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official language is Slovak. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Slovakia carries the ISO country codes SK and SVK, dials on the international calling code +421 and uses the .sk internet domain.

Slovakia shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Poland (capital Warsaw, about 37,392,000 people), Ukraine (capital Kyiv, about 32,862,000 people), Czechia (capital Prague, about 10,882,341 people), Hungary (capital Budapest, about 9,539,502 people) and Austria (capital Vienna, about 9,200,931 people).

By area, Slovakia is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 5 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 48.7° N, 19.5° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Slovakia within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Bratislava. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Slovakia lies about 5,402 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Slovakia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official language is Slovak, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +421 and websites commonly use the .sk internet domain.

In short, Slovakia is a landlocked country in Europe, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Bratislava. Slovakia has a population of about 5,413,813 and covers around 49,037 km² (18,933 sq mi), ranking it 121st in the world by population and 127th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Slovakia.

The flag of Slovakia is composed of three equal horizontal bands of white, blue and red. The coat of arms of Slovakia is superimposed at the center of the field slightly towards the hoist side.

The flag of Slovakia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.