摘要：The official governmental documents about rural development for individual programming periods had
used different identification of rural areas. The aim of the article is to provide the concise presentation
and comparison of various theoretical- methodological approaches to the definition and delimitation of
urban and rural areas that were applied and are used by scientific and expert community in Slovakia
during the processes of preparing these documents. We present the difficulties and critical statements
about application of administrative and statistical NUTS III and LAU 1 spatial units for deeper
understanding of rural problems in extremely spatially differentiated Slovakia.
关键词：urban-rural typology; definition and delimitation of rural areas; distribution of population; Slovakia.
