Prešov Region

It is located in the north-eastern Slovakia and has an area of 8,975 km². The region has a predominantly mountainous landscape. The subdivisions of Tatras – High Tatras and Belianske Tatras lie almost entirely in the region and include the highest point of Slovakia – Gerlachovský štít (2,654 ASL). Other mountain ranges and highlands in the region are Šarišská vrchovina, Čergov, Ondavská vrchovina, Slanské vrchy, Pieniny, Levoča Hills, Laborecká vrchovina, Bukovské vrchy, Vihorlat Mountains and Eastern Slovak Lowland. The basins in Prešov Region are Podtatranská kotlina, Hornádska kotlina and Košice Basin.

Major rivers in the region include the Poprad in the west, which is the only major Slovak river in the Baltic Sea watershed, a small part of Hornád in the south-west, a small part of Dunajec in the north, the Torysa in the centre and the Ondava and Laborec in the east. As for administrative divisions, the region borders on the Lesser Poland and Subcarpathian voivodeships in Poland in the north, Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine in the east, Košice Region in the south, Banská Bystrica Region in the south-west and Žilina Region in the west.

{{historical population|1970|605772|1980|678386|1991|739264|2001|789968|2011|814527|2021|808931|align=right|cols=1|source=Censuses{{cite web |title=Statistical lexikon of municipalities 1970-2011|url=https://slovak.statistics.sk/wps/wcm/connect/cd33d897-7314-41d0-a12b-a95e537d7a39/Statisticky_lexikon_obci_Slovenskej_republiky_2011.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy|language=sk}}{{cite web |title=Census 2021 - Population - Basic results|url=https://www.scitanie.sk/obyvatelia/zakladne-vysledky/pocet-obyvatelov/|publisher=Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic|date=2021-01-01}}}}The population density in the region is {{convert|92.13|PD/km2|PD/sqmi|abbr=on}} (2020-06-30/-07-01),{{cite web |url=https://krehel.sk/statistic_of_slovak_places_by_dusan_krehel/?lang=en&format=wiki_switch_pagename&type=density_pkm2&2020=on&all_places=on&in_places=&version=2020 |title=Statistic of Slovak places by Dušan Kreheľ – Export |access-date=2021-07-05 }} which is below the country's average (110 per km²). The largest towns are Prešov, Poprad, Humenné, Bardejov and Snina. According to the 2011 census, there were 814,527 inhabitants in the region, with a majority of Slovaks (90.7%), with minorities of Roma (4.0%), Rusyns (2.7%) and there are small minorities of Ukrainians (<1%) and Czechs (<0.5%).{{cite web|url=http://www.statistics.sk/webdata/english/census2001/tab/tab3a.htm |title=POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS 2001 - Tab. 3a |date=2006-11-29 |access-date=2013-08-19 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061129153653/http://www.statistics.sk/webdata/english/census2001/tab/tab3a.htm |archive-date=November 29, 2006 }}

The current governor of Prešov region is Milan Majerský (KDH). He won with 42% of the vote. In the 2017 election a regional parliament was also elected.

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: {{Color box|{{party color|Christian Democratic Movement}}|border=silver}} Centre-right groupSaS, KDH, ZĽ (20)

: {{Color box|{{party color|Voice – Social Democracy}}|border=silver}} Voice (20)

: {{Color box|#cccccc|border=silver}} Independent group (9)
{{Color box|#dddddd|border=silver}} Independent (8)
{{Color box|#64FF8A|border=silver}} STANK (1)

: {{Color box|#bbbbbb|border=silver}} Together for Region (8)
{{Color box|#dddddd|border=silver}} Independent (8)

: {{Color box|#dddddd|border=silver}} Non-affiliated (8)
{{Color box|#dddddd|border=silver}} Independent (4)
{{Color box|00B8FF|border=silver}} Chance, PS, DS, ODS, Together (1)
{{Color box|#FF2A10|border=silver}} Direction (1)
{{Color box|#FF3600|border=silver}} Republic (1)
{{Color box|#ff2a10|border=silver}} Dawn (1)

|last_election1=29 October 2022|meeting_place=Prešov|website=[https://www.po-kraj.sk/sk/samosprava/ County Council of Prešov region] }}

The Prešov Region consists of 13 districts. There are 666 municipalities, of which 23 are towns, where about half of the region's population live.

Districts:

• Bardejov
• Humenné
• Kežmarok
• Levoča
• Medzilaborce
• Poprad
• Prešov
• Sabinov
• Snina
• Stará Ľubovňa
• Stropkov
• Svidník
• Vranov nad Topľou

• Spiš
• Šariš
• Zemplín
• Union of Carpathian Youth

{{Reflist}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Kopa

| first = Ľudovít| title = The Encyclopaedia of Slovakia and the Slovaks

| year = 2006

| publisher = Encyclopaedic Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

| location = Bratislava, Slovakia

| isbn = 80-224-0925-1

|display-authors=etal}}

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• [http://www.vucpo.sk/ Prešovský samosprávny kraj] - official website

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| East = {{flag|Zakarpattia Oblast}}, {{flag|Ukraine}}

| Southwest = {{flag|Banská Bystrica Region}}

| South = {{flag|Košice Region}}

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