Selec

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Selec

Total population

991

Founded

1439

Elevation319 m

Land area24.8 km²

Coordinates48.79°, 17.99°

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

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Selec is a village and municipality in Trenčín District in the Trenčín Region of north-western Slovakia.

History & geography

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

Geography

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

Notable people from here

A

Anton Kotzig

Canadian mathematician (1919–1991)

L

Ludovit Ladislav Zambokrety

Hungarian Lutheran pastor (1844-1911)

László Mednyánszky

Hungarian artist, painter (1852-1919)

Dionýs Štúr

Slovak geologist (1827-1893)

Jozef Miloslav Hurban

Slovak writer, journalist, politician, and protestant priest (1817-1888)

Sándor Cézár Mednyánszky

Hungarian Catholic priest and military chaplain and politician (1824-1857)

M

Márton Tarnóczi

Sámuel Timon

Slovak geographer and historian (1675–1736)

Milan Ivana

Slovak soccer player

Ján Smrek

Czechoslovak poet (1898–1982)

B

Braňo Golier

Vladimír Roy

Slovak poet and translator

H

Herbert Ďurkovič

Czechoslovak minister of planning of the CR, vice prime minister of Slovakia, member of Czechoslovak parliament, member of Czechoslovak national parliament and slovak nation politician (1928–2007)

J

Ján Buzássy

Slovak writer

F

Florián Augustín Balogh

Hungarian Catholic priest

P

Peter Baláž

Slovak physicist and educator

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

Nearby places in Trenčín

• Krivosúd-Bodovka
  3.1 mi away · pop. 329
• Kálnica
  3.5 mi away · pop. 1,038
• Trenčianske Stankovce
  3.7 mi away · pop. 3,132
• Beckov
  4.3 mi away · pop. 1,291
• Mníchova Lehota
  4.6 mi away · pop. 1,213
• Trenčianska Turná
  4.6 mi away · pop. 3,120
• Veľké Bierovce
  4.7 mi away · pop. 609
• Ivanovce
  5 mi away · pop. 953
• Opatovce
  5.1 mi away · pop. 410
• Melčice-Lieskové
  5.3 mi away · pop. 1,605
• Adamovské Kochanovce
  5.4 mi away · pop. 842
• Štvrtok
  5.5 mi away · pop. 372

Browse all places in Trenčín →

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

Himalayan balsam

Impatiens glandulifera

Seen 2026-09-23

Clouded Yellow

Colias crocea

Seen 2026-09-20

Lesser Stag Beetle

Dorcus parallelipipedus

Seen 2026-09-20

Springtime Dung Beetle

Trypocopris vernalis

Seen 2026-09-20

Chalkhill Blue

Polyommatus coridon

Seen 2026-09-20

Painted Lady

Vanessa cardui

Seen 2026-09-20

Villa hottentotta

Villa hottentotta

Seen 2026-09-20

Triangle Crab Spider

Ebrechtella tricuspidata

Seen 2026-09-20

European Mantis

Mantis religiosa

Seen 2026-09-20

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