The Development of Suburban Zone of the Nitra City Over the Last 20 Years

In Nitra suburban zone, new residential complexes as well as new commercial zones are springing up. The aim of the paper is the analysis of the development of the suburbanization of Nitra city in the last two decades from 2001 to 2020, the evaluation of its expansion based on the gradual migration of the population from the Nitra city to rural municipalities, as well as the rural municipalities growth affected by suburbanization. In the paper were used standard geographic methods focused on several suburbanization indicators: emigration of population from the city, migration balance, population development but the key indicator was the proportion of immigrants into a rural municipality from Nitra city of the total number of immigrants into a given rural municipality. This proportion of immigrants from the Nitra city reaches higher values than the proportion of immigrants from other directions. From a comparison of the results, it can be seen that at the beginning of the monitored period there was an increase in the number of municipalities in the suburban zone (23), but at the same time, at the end of the monitored period from 2016 to 2020, there was also a decrease in municipalities in this zone (13).