Overpass turbo - query with area

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Hi,
can someone explain why this query find nodes also in Czech Republic and not only in Slovakia (Slovak term: Slovensko).

area["name"~"Slovensko"];
nwr(area)["highway"~"bus_stop"]["network"~"Arriva"];
out geom;
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You are searching in areas that contain “Slovensko” in the name with the regular expression “~” mode; use “=”:

area["name"="Slovensko"];
nwr(area)["highway"~"bus_stop"]["network"~"Arriva"];
out geom;
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3

Yes, in the meantime I have already found out that in the neighboring country there is a geomorphological unit called “Slovak-Moravian Carpathians” (Slovensko-moravské Karpaty).

4

I find that something like area["ISO3166-1"="CZ"]; is a lot more reliable than trying to match names.