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Basic facts about Bratislava

Location:	on both banks of the Danube, at the foot of and in the Little Carpathians, directly at the Austrian and Hungarian borders
Climate:	mild; annual mean temperature: 9.9 °C, annual hours of sunshine 1976.4, average annual rainfall 527.4 mm (1993)
Geographic coordinates:	48°9' N, 17°7' E
Altitude:	126-514 m
Population:	428 672
Area:	367.59 km²

Sex:	Women	53%
	Men	47%

Nationality:	Slovaks	91%
	Hungarians	4%
	Czechs	2%
	Other	3%

Religion:	Roman Catholics	57%
	Lutherans of Augsburg Confession	10%
	Greek Catholics	1%

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