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Slovenija
Last update: Saturday 31st of July 2010
| Republika Slovenija Republic of Slovenia | |||||
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| Motto: none | |||||
| Anthem: 7th stanza of Zdravljica "A Toast" | |||||
 Location of Slovenia (orange) – on the European continent (camel & white) | |||||
| Capital (and largest city) |  Ljubljana | ||||
| Official languages | Slovenian, Italian1, Hungarian1 | ||||
| Government | Parliamentary republic | ||||
| - President | Janez Drnovšek | ||||
| - Prime Minister | Janez Janša | ||||
| Independence | from Yugoslavia | ||||
| - Declared | June 25, 1991 | ||||
| - Recognized | 1992 | ||||
| Accession to EU | May 1, 2004 | ||||
| Area | |||||
| - Total | 20,273 km² (153rd) 7,827 sq mi | ||||
| - Water (%) | 0.6 | ||||
| Population | |||||
| - Sep 2006 estimate | 2,011,6142 (145th) | ||||
| - 2002 census | 1,964,036 | ||||
| - Density | 99 /km² (99st) 251 /sq mi | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2005 estimate | ||||
| - Total | $43.690 billion (81st) | ||||
| - Per capita | $23,250 (2006 estimate) (29th) | ||||
| HDI (2004) |  0.910 (high) (27th) | ||||
| Currency | Euro (€)3 (EUR) | ||||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||||
| Internet TLD | .si4 | ||||
| Calling code | +386 | ||||
| 1 In the residential municipalities of the Italian or Hungarian national community. 2 Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia: Population, Slovenia, 30 September 2006 3 Prior to 2007: Slovenian tolar 4 Also .eu, shared with other European Union member states. | |||||
Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovenian: Republika Slovenija, listen ), is a coastal Alpine country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy on the west, the Adriatic Sea on the southwest, Croatia on the south and east, Hungary on the northeast, and Austria on the north. The capital of Slovenia is Ljubljana.
At various points in Slovenia's history, the country has been part of the Roman Empire, the Duchy of Carantania (only modern Slovenia's northern part), the Holy Roman Empire, Austria-Hungary, the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929) between the World Wars, and the SFR of Yugoslavia from 1945 until gaining independence in 1991. Slovenia is a member of the European Union, the Council of Europe, NATO, and has observer status in La Francophonie.