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Slovenia is a country in that lies in the eastern , at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea. It is sometimes considered to be a country.
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is the small but delightful capital of Slovenia. While the city's population had grown to 295,500 in 2020, the sights and amenities are concentrated in the charming old centre.

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is the second most important centre and the second largest city of Slovenia. It has about 114,000 inhabitants who live embraced in its wine growing hills and the Mariborsko Pohorje mountain.

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is the fifth-largest city in Slovenia. Located in the Istrian region in the southwestern part of the country, is the main urban center of the Slovene coast.

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The region of Slovenia lies along the Adriatic coast and extends inland into the cave-dotted karst territory.

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The are a region of Slovenia. They are part of and extend over the border into north-eastern . They were named after Julius Caesar.

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is the region encompassing Slovenia's capital city of and the Kamnik Alps north of it. It's purely a region for statistical purposes: Slovenia has no government layer between its national government and its 122 municipalities.

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is a subdivision of Slovenia as defined by the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics. It is classified as a NUTS-2 statistical region of Slovenia.

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The Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region is a statistical region in southeast Slovenia. It is the largest statistical region. The development of this region is largely the result of industry, which generated nearly half of the gross value added in the region in 2012.

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is a region in north-central Slovenia that includes the Pohorje mountain range, Zasavje hills and the Savinja river valley.

Slovenia

Latitude of center
46° north
Longitude of center
15° east
Population
2,060,000
Area
20,273 km² (7,827 miles²)
Elevation
696 metres (2,283 feet)
Capital
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Phone code
.si
Internet domain
386
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
3190538
Wiki­data ID
Q215
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Slovenia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Словениа”
  • Achinese: “Slovenia”
  • Adyghe: “Словение”
  • Afrikaans: “Slowenië”
  • Akan: “Slovinia”
  • Albanian: “Slloveni”
  • Albanian: “Sllovenia”
  • Amharic: “ስሎቬኒያ”
  • Amis: “Slovenia”
  • Angika: “स्लोवेनिया”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية سلوفينيا”
  • Arabic: “سلوفينيا”
  • Aragonese: “Eslovenia”
  • Armenian: “Սլովենիա”
  • Arpitan: “Slovènia”
  • Arpitan: “Slovènie”
  • Assamese: “শ্লোভেনিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Eslovenia”
  • Asturian: “República d’Eslovenia”
  • Asturian: “slo”
  • Asturian: “Slovenija”
  • Asturian: “svn”
  • Atayal: “Slovenia”
  • Avaric: “Словения”
  • Awadhi: “स्लोवेनिया”
  • Aymara: “Isluwiña”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sloveniya”
  • Balinese: “Slovénia”
  • Bambara: “Sloveni”
  • Bashkir: “Словения”
  • Basque: “Eslovenia”
  • Bavarian: “Slowenien”
  • Bavarian: “Slowénien”
  • Belarusian: “Славенія”
  • Bengali: “স্লোভানিয়া”
  • Bengali: “স্লোভেনিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Slowéni”
  • Bhojpuri: “स्लोवेनिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “স্লোভেনিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Slovenia”
  • Bosnian: “Republika Slovenija”
  • Bosnian: “Slovenija”
  • Breton: “Slovenia”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Словения”
  • Bulgarian: “Словения”
  • Burmese: “စလိုဗေးနီးယား”
  • Burmese: “ဆလိုဗေးနီးယား”
  • Burmese: “ဆလိုဗေးနီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Eslovènia”
  • Cebuano: “Eslobenya”
  • Central Bikol: “Slobinya”
  • Central Kurdish: “سلۆڤێنیا”
  • Chamorro: “Eslovenia”
  • Chavacano: “Eslovenia”
  • Chechen: “Словени”
  • Cherokee: “ᏍᎶᏫᏂᎠ”
  • Cheyenne: “Slovenia”
  • Chinese: “Sīluòwénníyà”
  • Chinese: “Slovenia”
  • Chinese: “斯洛文尼亚”
  • Chinese: “斯洛文尼亞 / 斯洛維尼亞 / 斯洛文尼亚”
  • Chinese: “斯洛文尼亞”
  • Chinese: “斯洛文尼亞共和國”
  • Chinese: “斯洛維尼亞”
  • Church Slavic: “Їллѷрїиска Словѣнїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Словени”
  • Cornish: “Sloveni”
  • Corsican: “Sluvenia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sloveniya”
  • Croatian: “Republika Slovenija”
  • Croatian: “Slovenija”
  • Czech: “Slovinská republika”
  • Czech: “Slovinsko”
  • Dagbani: “Slovenia”
  • Danish: “Slovenien”
  • Dhivehi: “ސުލޮވީނިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Slowenya”
  • Dotyali: “स्लोभेनिया”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Slovenië”
  • Dutch: “Slovenie”
  • Dutch: “Slovenië”
  • Dzongkha: “སི་ལོ་ཝེ་ཉི་ཡ”
  • Dzongkha: “སུ་ལོ་བི་ནི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Словений”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سلوفينيا”
  • Erzya: “Словения Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Slovenio”
  • Esperanto: “Slovenio”
  • Esperanto: “Slovenujo”
  • Estonian: “Sloveenia”
  • Ewe: “Slovenia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Slovenia”
  • Extremaduran: “Esloveña”
  • Extremaduran: “Eslovénia”
  • Faroese: “Slovenia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Slovenia”
  • Finnish: “Slovenia”
  • Finnish: “Slovenian tasavalta”
  • French: “Carniole”
  • French: “la République de Slovénie”
  • French: “République de Slovénie”
  • French: “Slovénie”
  • Friulian: “Slovenie”
  • Fulah: “Slowenii”
  • Fulah: “Suloweniya”
  • Gagauz: “Sloveniya”
  • Galician: “Eslovenia”
  • Ganda: “Sirovenya”
  • Ganda: “Slovenia”
  • Georgian: “სლოვენია”
  • German: “Republik Slowenien”
  • German: “Slowenien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Slovenia”
  • Gilaki: “اسلؤوني”
  • Goan Konkani: “Slovenia”
  • Goan Konkani: “स्लोव्हेनिया”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Σλοβενία”
  • Guarani: “Eloveña”
  • Guarani: “Elovéña”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Slovéni”
  • Gujarati: “સ્લોવેનિયા”
  • Haitian: “Sloveni”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Slovenia”
  • Hausa: “Sloveniya”
  • Hausa: “Sulobeniya”
  • Hawaiian: “Solowenia”
  • Hebrew: “סלובניה”
  • Hindi: “स्लोवेनिया”
  • Hungarian: “Szlovén Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Szlovénia”
  • Iban: “Slovenia”
  • Icelandic: “Slóvenía”
  • Ido: “Slovenia”
  • Igbo: “Slovenia”
  • Iloko: “Eslobenia”
  • Inari Sami: “Slovenia täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Slovenia”
  • Indonesian: “Slovenia”
  • Interlingua: “Slovenia”
  • Interlingue: “Slovenia”
  • Irish: “an tSlóivéin”
  • Irish: “An tSlóivéin”
  • Italian: “Slovenia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Sloviinia”
  • Japanese: “スロヴェニア”
  • Japanese: “スロベニア”
  • Japanese: “スロベニア共和国”
  • Javanese: “Slovénia”
  • Javanese: “Slowén”
  • Kabardian: “Словениэ”
  • Kabardian: “Слоуэнэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Siloveni”
  • Kabyle: “Sluvinya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Slovenia”
  • Kalmyk: “Словенмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಲೊವೇನಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಲೋವೇನಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sloveniya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Словения”
  • Kashmiri: “سلووینیا”
  • Kashmiri: “سَلووینِیا”
  • Kashubian: “Słoweniô”
  • Kashubian: “Sloweńskô”
  • Kazakh: “Словения”
  • Khmer: “ស្លូវេនី”
  • Kikuyu: “Slovenia”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Siloveniya”
  • Kirghiz: “Словения”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Словения”
  • Komi: “Словения”
  • Kongo: “Republic of Slovenia”
  • Kongo: “Slovenia”
  • Korean: “슬로베니아 공화국”
  • Korean: “슬로베니아”
  • Kotava: “Slovenia”
  • Kurdish: “Slovenya”
  • Kurdish: “سلۆڤێنیا”
  • Ladin: “Slovenia”
  • Ladino: “Eslovenia”
  • Lao: “ສະໂລເວເນຍ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດສະໂລເວນີ”
  • Latgalian: “Sloveneja”
  • Latin: “Slovenia”
  • Latvian: “Slovēnija”
  • Lezghian: “Словения”
  • Ligurian: “Slovenia”
  • Ligurian: “Slovénia”
  • Limburgan: “Slovenië”
  • Lingala: “Siloveni”
  • Lingala: “Slovenia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Slovenia”
  • Literary Chinese: “斯洛文尼亞”
  • Literary Chinese: “斯洛維尼亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Slovėnija”
  • Liv: “Slovēnij”
  • Livvi: “Slovenii”
  • Lojban: “slovEni,as”
  • Lombard: “Slovenia”
  • Lombard: “Sluenia”
  • Low German: “Slovenie”
  • Low German: “Slovenië”
  • Low German: “Sloveniën”
  • Low German: “Slowenien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Słowjeńska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Siloveni”
  • Luxembourgish: “Slowenien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Slovenia”
  • Macedonian: “Словенија”
  • Madurese: “Slovenia”
  • Malagasy: “Silaovenia”
  • Malagasy: “Slovenia”
  • Malagasy: “Slôvenia”
  • Malay: “Slovenia”
  • Malayalam: “സ്ലൊവീന്യ”
  • Malayalam: “സ്ലോവേനിയ”
  • Maltese: “is-Slovenja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tas-Slovenja”
  • Maltese: “Slovenja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁ꯭ꯂꯣꯚꯦꯅꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Slovean”
  • Manx: “Slovenia”
  • Manx: “y Clovean”
  • Manx: “Yn Clovean”
  • Maori: “Horowinia”
  • Marathi: “स्लोव्हेनिया”
  • Mazanderani: “اسلونی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Slovenia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Slovenia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Su-lo̍k-biân”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “斯洛棉”
  • Minangkabau: “Slovenia”
  • Mingrelian: “სლოვენია”
  • Mirandese: “Slobénia”
  • Moksha: “Республикась Словения”
  • Moksha: “Словения”
  • Moksha: “Словэния”
  • Mongolian: “Словен”
  • Mongolian: “Словени”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “صلوڤينيا”
  • Mossi: “Slovenia”
  • Narom: “Slovénie”
  • Nauru: “Tsirobeniya”
  • Navajo: “Słobíín Bikéyah”
  • Navajo: “Táʼídziilnii Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Slovenia”
  • Nepali: “स्लोभेनिया”
  • Newari: “स्लोभेनिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Slovenia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sloweenien/mo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sloweenien”
  • Northern Sami: “Slovenia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Slovenia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Slovenia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Slovenia”
  • Norwegian: “Slovenia”
  • Novial: “Slovenia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Eslovènia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܠܘܒܢܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Slofenland”
  • Oriya: “ସ୍ଲୋଭେନିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Isloveeniyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Словени”
  • Pali: “स्लोवीनिया”
  • Pampanga: “Eslobenya”
  • Pampanga: “Slovenia”
  • Pangasinan: “Eslovenia”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਲੋਵੇਨੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Slovenia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Slovenia”
  • Persian: “اسلوونی”
  • Persian: “سلوانیا”
  • Persian: “سلووینیا”
  • Picard: “Slovénie”
  • Piemontese: “Slovenia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Slowenya”
  • Polish: “Republika Slovenija”
  • Polish: “Republika Słowenii”
  • Polish: “si”
  • Polish: “slo”
  • Polish: “Slovenija”
  • Polish: “Słowenia”
  • Polish: “svn”
  • Pontic: “Σλοβενία”
  • Portuguese: “Eslovenia”
  • Portuguese: “Eslovénia”
  • Portuguese: “Eslovênia”
  • Portuguese: “República da Eslovênia”
  • Portuguese: “Republika Slovenija”
  • Portuguese: “si”
  • Portuguese: “slo”
  • Portuguese: “Slovenija”
  • Portuguese: “svn”
  • Pushto: “سلوانیا”
  • Pushto: “سلووانيا”
  • Pushto: “سلووانیا”
  • Quechua: “Eslovenia”
  • Quechua: “Isluwiniya”
  • Quechua: “Isluwinya”
  • Rakhine: “ဆလိုဗေးနီးယားသမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Republica Slovenia”
  • Romanian: “Slovenia”
  • Romansh: “Slovenia”
  • Rundi: “Siloveniya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Словен”
  • Russia Buriat: “Словени”
  • Russian: “Республика Словения”
  • Russian: “Словения”
  • Rusyn: “Словенія”
  • Sakizaya: “Slovenia”
  • Samoan: “Slovenia”
  • Samoan: “Solovenia”
  • Samogitian: “Slovėnėjė”
  • Samogitian: “Slovienėjė”
  • Samogitian: “Sluovienėjė”
  • Sango: “Solovenïi”
  • Sanskrit: “स्लोवीनिया”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱞᱳᱵᱷᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Islovènia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Slowenien”
  • Scots: “Slovenie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Slòbhain”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sloibhìnia”
  • Serbian: “Slovenija”
  • Serbian: “Република Словенија”
  • Serbian: “Словенија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Slovenija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသလူဝ်ႇဝေးၼီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Slovenia”
  • Sicilian: “Slovenia”
  • Silesian: “Słowyńijo”
  • Sindhi: “سلووينیا”
  • Sindhi: “سلوینیا”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ලෝවේනියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Slovenia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Slovenia”
  • Slovak: “Slovinská republika”
  • Slovak: “Slovinsko”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Slovenija”
  • Slovenian: “RS”
  • Slovenian: “SL”
  • Slovenian: “Slovenija”
  • Somali: “Islofeeniya”
  • Somali: “Isloveeniya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایسلوونی”
  • Southern Sami: “Sloveenia”
  • Southern Sotho: “Slovenia”
  • Spanish: “Carnicola”
  • Spanish: “Eslovenia”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Eslovenia”
  • Spanish: “República de Eslovenia”
  • Spanish: “si”
  • Spanish: “slo”
  • Spanish: “svn”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Slovenikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⵍⵓⴼⵉⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵚⵍⵓⴼⵉⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Slovénia”
  • Swahili: “Slovenia”
  • Swati: “Siloveni”
  • Swedish: “Republika Slovenija”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Slovenien”
  • Swedish: “Slovenien”
  • Swedish: “Slovenija”
  • Swiss German: “Slowenia”
  • Tagalog: “Eslobenya”
  • Tagalog: “Eslovenia”
  • Tagalog: “Slovenia”
  • Tajik: “Словения”
  • Talysh: “Slovenijə”
  • Talysh: “Sloveniyə”
  • Tamil: “சுலோவீனியா”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்லோவேனியா”
  • Taroko: “Slovenia”
  • Tatar: “Словения”
  • Telugu: “స్లోవేనియా”
  • Tetum: “Eslovénia”
  • Thai: “ประเทศสโลวีเนีย”
  • Thai: “สโลวีเนีย”
  • Tibetan: “ས་ལཽ་ཝེ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “སི་ལོ་ཝེ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ስሎቬኒያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Slovenia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Silōvenia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Slowenien”
  • Tsonga: “Slovenia”
  • Tumbuka: “Slovenia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “سلوڥينيا”
  • Turkish: “Slovenya”
  • Turkmen: “Sloweniýa”
  • Twi: “Slovenia”
  • Udmurt: “Словения”
  • Uighur: “Slowéniye”
  • Uighur: “سلوۋېنىيە”
  • Uighur: “سىلوۋېنىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Словенія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Republika Słowjenska”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Słowjenska”
  • Urdu: “سلووینیا”
  • Uzbek: “Sloveniya”
  • Venetian: “Slovegna”
  • Venetian: “Slovènia”
  • Veps: “Slovenii”
  • Vietnamese: “Slovenia”
  • Vietnamese: “Xlô-ven-ni-a (Slovenia)”
  • Vietnamese: “Xlô-ven-ni-a”
  • Vlaams: “Slovenië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Sloveniya”
  • Volapük: “Repüblikän Slovenäna”
  • Volapük: “Slovenän”
  • Volapük: “Sloveniyän”
  • Võro: “Sloveeniä”
  • Walloon: “Sloveneye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Eslovenya”
  • Welsh: “Slofenia”
  • Western Armenian: “Սլովենիա”
  • Western Balochi: “سلوانیا”
  • Western Frisian: “Sloveenje”
  • Western Frisian: “Slovenië”
  • Western Panjabi: “سلوینیا”
  • Wolof: “Esloweeni”
  • Wolof: “Esloweni”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯洛文尼亚”
  • Xhosa: “Sloveniya”
  • Yakut: “Словения”
  • Yiddish: “סלאוועניע”
  • Yoruba: “Silofania”
  • Yoruba: “Sloféníà”
  • Yue Chinese: “史洛文尼亚”
  • Yue Chinese: “史洛文尼亞”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯洛文尼亚”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯洛文尼亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Slovenië”
  • Zhuang: “Slovenia”
  • Zulu: “i-Slovenia”
  • Zulu: “ISloveniya”
  • “Eslovenia”
  • “ma Lowensina”
  • “SI”
  • “SLO”
  • “Sloveeniä”
  • “Slovenia”
  • “Slovenie”
  • “Slovienėjė”
  • “Śluvègna”
  • “SVN”
  • “Зловения”
  • “स्लोवेनिया”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Slovenia”. Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY 3.0.