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Slovakia

OFFICIAL NAME: Slovak Republic

DATE OF FORMATION: 1993

POPULATION: 5.4 million

DENSITY: 285 people per square mile

LANGUAGES: Slovak, Hungarian (Magyar), Czech

RELIGIONS: Roman Catholic 60%, Other 18%, Atheist 10%, Protestant 8%, Orthodox Christian 4%

ETHNIC MIX: Slovak 85%, Magyar 11%, Other 2%, Roma 1%, Czech 1%

GOVERNMENT: Multiparty elections

CURRENCY: Slovak koruna

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Dominated for 900 years by neighboring Hungary, Slovakia spent much of the 20th century as the less developed half of communist Czechoslovakia. An independent democracy since 1993, Slovakia has struggled to create a modern market-led economy, but was among the ten countries which joined the EU in its major eastward expansion in 2004.