Features of the Border Region’s Spatial Structure

Abstract

This study analyses the spatial structure of Slovakian-Hungarian cross border region. The spatial structure, the city network and the transport axles influence largely the spatial coverage of cross border region. The Hungarian-Slovakian border is long and divides a various social-economic and natural surroundings. These areas belonged to one common state once; also it is interesting to study what kind of regional consequences a state border has got on regional development, city network and inhabitants' movement paths. At the end of the study the main target areas of respondents in other state's border region are represented as results of empirical research.