The Institute of Geography is the scientific organization of the Slovak Academy of Sciences which pursues research/scientific activities in a number of geographical sciences in the scope fixed by the establishing documents issued on 15 November 2021 and approved by the Presidency of the Slovak Academy of Sciences at its meeting on 28 October 2021.

The mission of the Institute is the basic research of spatial structures and the bonds between the natural and socio-economic systems with a special regard for the territory of Slovakia.
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