Oravská Jasenica
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Coordinates: 49°23′N 19°26′E / 49.39°N 19.44°E / 49.39; 19.44
Country	Slovakia
Region	Žilina Region
District	Námestovo District
First mentioned	1588
Area [1]
• Total	23.68 km2 (9.14 sq mi)
Elevation [3]	624 m (2,047 ft)
Population  (2024)[2]
• Total	1,992
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	290 1[3]
Area code	+421 43[3]
Vehicle registration plate (until 2022)	NO
Website	www.oravskajasenica.sk

Oravská Jasenica (Hungarian: Jaszenica) is a village and municipality in Námestovo District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia.

The village was founded in the 1680s. The first written mention of the place under the name Jasenica is dated by 1588. There are later further records under various spellings. The current name Oravská Jasenica was documented in 1949.^[4][5]

The municipality lies at an altitude of 624 metres (2,047 ft)^[3] and covers an area of 23.68 km² (9.14 sq mi) (2024).^[6]

It has a population of 1992 people (31 December 2024).^[8]

In year 2021 was 1922 people by ethnicity 1901 as Slovak, 26 as Not found out, 3 as Czech, 2 as Polish, 2 as Croatian, 1 as Rusyn, 1 as Russian and 1 as Hungarian.

Note on population: The difference between the population numbers above and in the census (here and below) is that the population numbers above are mostly made up of permanent residents, etc.; and the census should indicate the place where people actually mainly live.
For example, a student is a citizen of a village because they have permanent residence there (they lived there as a child and has parents), but most of the time he studies at a university in the city.

In year 2021 was 1922 people by religion 1814 from Roman Catholic Church, 70 from None, 18 from Not found out, 6 from Evangelical Church, 5 from Greek Catholic Church, 3 from Christian Congregations in Slovakia, 2 from Calvinist Church, 2 from Ad hoc movements, 1 from Paganism and natural spirituality and 1 from Other.