Slovakia has 9 national parks in the open data of the State Nature Conservancy and the Statistical Office, and the Conservancy's website gives the same number. We give the full names as the Statistical Office publishes them, which do not all include the words národný park, and the short titles the Conservancy uses.123
Which national parks are listed?
The Conservancy's data on large protected areas has 9 national parks, besides protected landscape areas and national park buffer zones.1 The Statistical Office's table lists the same 9 under Národné parky.2 The Conservancy's website says 9 national parks had been declared by the end of 2025.3
| National park (as the Statistical Office names it) | Short title (as the State Nature Conservancy writes it) |
|---|---|
| Muránska planina | NP Muránska planina |
| Národný park Nízke Tatry | NP Nízke Tatry |
| Tatranský národný park | TANAP |
| Národný park Malá Fatra | NP Malá Fatra |
| Poloniny | NP Poloniny |
| Veľká Fatra | NP Veľká Fatra |
| Slovenský kras | NP Slovenský kras |
| Národný park Slovenský raj | NP Slovenský raj |
| Pieninský národný park | PIENAP |
The Statistical Office writes some names with národný park and some without; we keep them as published. We matched the two datasets by name, and the two parks with short titles (TANAP and PIENAP) by area.
Can this list be reused?
The national data catalogue gives both datasets the CC BY 4.0 licence code for the author's work and the database.12 Neither publisher sets its own wording for the credit, so we name both datasets.
What this page cannot tell you
- No regions or dates here. Neither dataset has a region or declaration date field.
Related: National parks around the world · National parks of Japan · Officially recognised places.
Key takeaways
- Slovakia has 9 national parks in the open data.
- Names are as the Statistical Office publishes them; not all include národný park.
- TANAP and PIENAP are the Conservancy's short titles.
- What we would skip: reading the list as a ranking or a travel guide. It records an official designation; it says nothing about opening, access or conditions, so check each park's own information before you go.
Sources
The list comes from the State Nature Conservancy's dataset of large protected areas and the Statistical Office's table of national parks; the count also from the Conservancy's website. All read on 1 October 2026. See how we research.
- Štátna ochrana prírody Slovenskej republiky (State Nature Conservancy), Chránené územia - veľkoplošné chránené územia (VCHÚ). Read the dataset record on data.gov.sk. Accessed 1 October 2026.
- Štatistický úrad Slovenskej republiky (Statistical Office), Národné parky a chránené krajinné oblasti (zp1010rs). Read the dataset record on data.gov.sk. Accessed 1 October 2026.
- Štátna ochrana prírody Slovenskej republiky, Prehľad chránených území. Read it on sopsr.sk. Accessed 1 October 2026.
Credit and licence. Source: Štátna ochrana prírody SR, dataset 'Chránené územia - veľkoplošné chránené územia (VCHÚ)', and Štatistický úrad SR, dataset 'Národné parky a chránené krajinné oblasti' (zp1010rs); licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); filtered and translated. CC BY 4.0. Changes made. Both datasets filtered to national parks and matched to each other; explanations translated into English. We use no logos or images from these sources. Gallivanting Gadabout is not connected with, or endorsed by, the State Nature Conservancy or the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic.