The city of Košice, the second-largest city in the Slovak Republic, is located in the eastern part of Slovakia, near the borders with Hungary (20 km), Ukraine (80 km) and Poland (90 km). In the past, the advantageous location made Košice an important point on trade routes, today it is a key economic agglomeration, but also a crossroads of transport routes, to which the railway junction and the international airport contribute.