Ethnographic Divisions of Slovakia 1938

       Slovaks                        2,773,000   86.30%

       Czechs                            52,000    1.62%

       Germans                          128,000    3.98%

       Hungarians                        67,000    2.09%

       Ruthenes                          79,000    2.46%

       Jews                              87,000    2.71%

       Poles                                770     .00%

       Other Citizens                    27,000     .84%

       Aliens                              Not Available

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       Total                          3,213,770

Religious Faiths of Slovakia 1938


        Roman Catholic                 1,760,000    71.95%

        Protestant                       382,000    15.61%

        Czechoslovak Church                8,000      .33%

        Greek Catholic                   184,000     7.52%

        Israelite                         91,000     3.72%

        Orthodox                           8,000      .33%

        Other Faiths                       1,000      .04%

        Without Confession                12,000      .50%

NOTE: The boundaries of the country in 1938 were not the same as what we today know as Slovakia.

Numbers are from the December 1938 census of Slovakia published in the Statesman's Year Book, 1941, that used rounded numbers.

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