Key facts
- Country
- Slovakia
- Region kraj
- Košice Region
- Seat
- Gelnica
- Total
- 584.33 km (225.61 sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Telephone prefix
- 053
- Vehicle registration plate until 2022
- GL
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Slovakia
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Košice Region
- Capital
- Gelnica
- Population
- 31884
- Area
- 584.339034
- Shares border with
- Prešov District
- Image
- Hornad Ruzin Margecany.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gelnica District
- topic's main category
- Category:Gelnica District
- topic has template
- Template:Gelnica District
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Encyclopedic overview
Gelnica (district) (Slovak: okres Gelnica, Hungarian: Gölnicbányai járás) is a district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. It was established in 1923. Between 1960–1996 the district has been a part of the Spišská Nová Ves District. Then, in 1996 the Gelnica District was established in its present borders. It is the district with the highest percentage of forest area in Slovakia, 74,6%. The district's center is its biggest town, Gelnica.
Population
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gelnica District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.