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Poprad
(
pronunciation
(
help
·
info
)
;
Hungarian
:
Poprad
,
German
:
Deutschendorf
) is a
city
in northern
Slovakia
at the bottom of the
High Tatra Mountains
. It is the biggest town in the
Spi?
region and the tenth largest city in Slovakia. As of 2016, about 52,000 people live in Poprad.
The city has a historic centre, an international airport and is the starting point of the Tatranska elektricka ?eleznica (
Tatra Electric Railway
) - a set of special narrow-gauge trains (
trams
) connecting the
resorts
in the High Tatra Mountains with each other and with Poprad. Main line trains link Poprad to other destinations in Slovakia and beyond, through trains run to
Prague
in the
Czech Republic
.
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