Hruštín

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Hruštín

Total population

3,233

Founded

1588

Elevation697 m

Land area36.51 km²

Coordinates49.32°, 19.35°

Demographic figures from Statistical Office of Slovakia. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Hruštín is a village and municipality in Námestovo District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

F

Ferenc Abaffy

Hungarian politician (1732-1817)

Martin Hamuljak

Slovak linguist

Yohanan Friedmann

Israeli academic

S

Severín Škultéty

Slovak writer, priest and teacher (1550-1600)

J

Johannes Sinapius

Slovak protestant clergy (1625-1682)

Milan Čič

Czechoslovak minister of justice of the Slovakia, minister of interior of the Slovakia, vice prime minister of Czechoslovakia, member of Czechoslovak parliament, prime minister of Slovakia, politician, lawyer, constitutional judge (1932-2012)

František Paňák

Slovak translator and roman catholic priest (1908-1997)

J

Jozef Staško

Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament and Slovak nation politician

Ján Vojtaššák

Slovak bishop, Nazi collaborator (1877–1965)

Karol Anton Medvecký

Slovak Roman Catholic priest, ethnographer, historian and politician, member of the Revolutionary National Assembly of Czechoslovakia

M

Milan Janák

Czechoslovak economist (1910-1982)

Pavol Florek

Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, historian, educator and Slovak nation politician (1895–1963)

Peter Colotka

Czechoslovak diplomat, member of Slovak National Council, member of Czechoslovak parliament, prime minister of the Slovakia, politician and slovak nation politician (1925-2019)

R

Róbert Chocholáček

Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament and Slovak nation politician

A

Andrej Martvoň

politician

A

Arisztid Abaffy

Hungarian land owner, politician (1799-1861)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Žilina

• Babín
  1.6 mi away · pop. 1,415
• Vasiľov
  2.4 mi away · pop. 784
• Lomná
  3.2 mi away · pop. 811
• Krušetnica
  3.6 mi away · pop. 928
• Lokca
  4 mi away · pop. 2,216
• Oravský Podzámok
  4.4 mi away · pop. 1,332
• Breza
  4.5 mi away · pop. 1,568
• Zákamenné
  5 mi away · pop. 5,072
• Horná Lehota
  5.4 mi away · pop. 528
• Ťapešovo
  5.6 mi away · pop. 641
• Sedliacka Dubová
  5.7 mi away · pop. 507
• Oravská Jasenica
  5.8 mi away

Browse all places in Žilina →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

common bilberry

Vaccinium myrtillus

Seen 2026-09-27

Bushgrass

Calamagrostis epigejos

Seen 2026-09-27

Fly Agaric

Amanita muscaria

Seen 2026-09-27

Tufted Vetch Aphid

Aphis craccae

Seen 2026-09-23

Pear-shaped Puffball

Apioperdon pyriforme

Seen 2026-09-23

Fox Moth

Macrothylacia rubi

Seen 2026-09-23

Willow Beauty

Peribatodes rhomboidaria

Seen 2026-09-21

common silverweed

Argentina anserina

Seen 2026-09-20

European dewberry

Rubus caesius

Seen 2026-09-20

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).