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Slovakia is a small Eastern European country, which is bordered by the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and the Ukraine. Slovakia became an independent state following the dissolution of the old Soviet puppet state, Czechoslovakia, in the early 1990s. This nation's land mass encompasses nearly 20,000 square miles, and is home to nearly 5,000,000 people. The native language of this area is Slovak, which is a member of the Slavic linguistic family. The first Slavic peoples emigrated into what is now survived the during the fifth and sixth centuries. However, Slovakia has not been its own nation until recently. It had it has always been grafted on to other national entities such as the Austro-Hungarian empire, Nazi Germany, the Czech Republic, and the Soviet Union.

Weather patterns and Slovakia can be described as diverse, because of the very different geographical features of this area. However, temperatures range from any negatives in winter to the mid-50s and 60s in summer. This climate is similar to those of its neighboring countries. Economically speaking, the people of Slovakia enjoying a high middle range income, like most of the other Eastern European nations, which have been recently freed from Soviet Communist domination. Slovakia is a productive nation, being allowed entrance into the European Union, United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, during the early twenty-first century.

The economic structure of Slovakia can be described as an emerging free market privately-based economy. As it stands right now, the majority of Slovakian banking and corporately owned companies are in private hands. The main currency of Slovakia is the euro, and this nation has seen massive drops in inflation and unemployment since 1999. This nation has been dubbed the “Tatra Tiger” by economic analysts throughout the world, because of the fact that foreign investment in Slovakian infrastructure is at an all-time high.