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Minorities

Slovakia is an ethnically diverse country. In the last census in 2021, 83.82 percent of the participants claimed allegiance to Slovak nationality. The biggest national minority is the Hungarian one followed by the Roma and Rusyns.

  • Hungarian minority: 422,065 (7.75 percent)
  • Roma minority: 67,179 (1.23 percent)
  • Rusyn minority: 23,746 (0.44 percent)
  • Czech minority: 28,996 (0.53 percent)
  • Ukrainian minority: 9,451 (0.17 percent)
  • German minority: 3,318 (0.06 percent)
  • Moravian minority: 1,098 (0.02 percent)
  • Polish minority: 3,771 (0.07 percent)
  • Russian minority: 3,245 (0.06 percent)
  • Bulgarian minority: 1,106 (0.02 percent)
  • Croatian minority: 967 (0.02 percent)
  • Serbian minority: 1,084 (0.02 percent)
  • Vietnamese minority: 2,793 (0.05 percent)
  • Jewish: 596 (0.01 percent)

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The Rainbow Pride festival in Bratislava on July 23, 2022.
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In some areas, language no longer used by young generation.
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Ďevjatkakere Čhave, a Roma children's choir from Košice, during a recording session at the Slovak Public Radio building in Bratislava in December 2021.
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The choir Ďevjatkakere Čhave has put out its first music video.
A pub is one of 50 buildings that can be found in the open-air museum branch of the Museum of Ukrainian Culture in Svidník.
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The rector is one of the personalities featured in the oldest ethnic museum in Slovakia.
Taras Shevchenko Primary and Grammar School in Prešov is the only school of its kind in Slovakia where the Ukrainian language is the language of instruction.
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The data also revealed that almost 4 percent of inhabitants were not born in Slovakia.
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This is despite the fact that marginalised Roma communities are in general younger than the majority.
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