The Zilina Region is situated in the northeast part of the Slovak Republic. It is the country of natural beauties, cultural relics, the country with advanced industries but also historically established agriculture, vast forests, big rivers and dams. The country in which folk traditions and architecture are meeting with modern construction, transportation, energetics and further achievements of technical progress. It is the country of Jánošík’s traditions, wooden churches, skansens and folk festivals, national revivalists, but also the country of important personalities of the cultural and social life and builders of dams, electric power stations, motorways, producers of television sets, engines, telephones, bearings, the country where the road communications, railways and air routes of Europe cross. Inhabitants of this country are still proud of the traditional attributes of the Slovaks - modesty, hospitality, but also the hard work that was since time immemorial the way of overcoming the hardships of climate and the lack of fertile land. Thanks to these properties and abilities, the people could adjust also to the new conditions of scientific-technical revolution and to the post-November development. Currently we evidence the many-sided development of Zilina Region ranking among the most developed in Slovakia.

The Region has mild, warm to cold and humid climate with the lowest temperatures in Slovakia measured at Oravská Polhora. The forests stretch over the area of 362,185 ha (54% of the Region’s acreage), the farmland covers 250,880 ha (37%), out of which the arable land covers only 71,701 ha (28%).