Podbrezová

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Podbrezová

Total population

4,135

Founded

1358

Air quality index

27Good

Elevation476 m

Land area18.57 km²

Coordinates48.81°, 19.53°

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

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Podbrezová is a large village and municipality in Brezno District, in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia, around 10 km west of the district seat town, Brezno.

History & geography

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

Geography

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

Air quality

Current readings from Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus CAMS European reanalysis).

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

Samo Chalupka

Slovak poet

Alajos Szokolyi

Olympian athlete, physician (1871-1932)

J

József Havas

Hungarian politician (1796-1878)

B

Branislav Skladaný

Slovak volleyball player

I

Ignác Havas

E

Ernő Kiss

Hungarian mechanical engineer, politician (1920–1987)

A

Adolf Lantos

(1875–1942) bookseller, publisher and antiquarian bookseller

A

Antal Lajos Munyai

Hungarian teacher (1787-1849)

Ladislav Chudík

Slovak actor

S

Severín Škultéty

Slovak writer, priest and teacher (1550-1600)

Z

Zsigmond Szécsi

Hungarian forestry engineer and non-fiction writer (1841-1895)

Š

Štefan Svitek

Czechoslovak murderer (1960-1989)

Ľ

Ľubomír Dolgoš

Czechoslovak minister of privatisation of the Slovakia, member of Czechoslovak parliament, economist, publicist and slovak nation politician (1956-2004)

F

František Klajban

Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, legioneer and Slovak nation politician

G

Gejza Weiss

Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, union member and Slovak nation politician

J

Jozef Kučerák

Czechoslovak vice prime minister of Slovakia, member of Czechoslovak parliament, economist and Slovak nation politician

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

Nearby places in Banská Bystrica

• Horná Lehota
  2 mi away · pop. 583
• Osrblie
  3.6 mi away · pop. 388
• Bystrá
  4.2 mi away · pop. 188
• Ráztoka
  5.8 mi away · pop. 293
• Strelníky
  8.7 mi away · pop. 802
• Drábsko
  12.5 mi away · pop. 223
• Očová
  18.4 mi away · pop. 2,595
• Šoltýska
  18.8 mi away · pop. 141
• Lukavica
  18.8 mi away · pop. 144
• Veľká Lúka
  20.7 mi away · pop. 427
• Riečka
  21 mi away · pop. 656
• Tajov
  21.4 mi away · pop. 516

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