Vígľaš is a village and municipality in Detva District, in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia.

The name is of Hungarian origin: vég les (Weegles 1395), free translation "at the end", "a tree stand at the edge".

During early morning of 11 February 1929, the temperature of -41,0 °C was recorded here.

The temperature, however, was not the lowest in then-Czechoslovakia, beaten by 1,2 °C recorded in Litvínovice.

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