Slovenia is formally called the Republic of Slovenia, a nation in Central Europe. It is surrounded by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and also the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. Slovenia is primarily hilly and forested, covers 20,271 square kilometres (7,827 sq mi), as well as has a population of 2.1 million (2,108,708 individuals). Slovenes comprise over 80% of the nation’s population.

Slovene, a South Slavic language, is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly continental environment, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. A sub-mediterranean climate reaches to the northern extensions of the Dinaric Alps that go across the nation in a northwest– southeast instructions.

The Julian Alps in the northwest have an alpine climate. Continental climate is extra noticable towards the northeastern Pannonian Plain. The capital as well as biggest city– Ljubljana– is virtually the centre of the nation.

Slovenia has traditionally been the crossroads of Slavic, Germanic, and also Romance languages and societies. Its region has actually been part of several states: the Roman Empire, the Oriental Realm, the Carolingian Realm, the Divine Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Republic of Venice, the Illyrian Provinces of Napoleon’s First French Empire, the Austrian Realm, and also the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In October 1918, the Slovenes co-founded the State of Slovenes, Croats, as well as Serbs. In December 1918, they combined with the Kingdom of Serbia right into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

During World War II, Germany, Italy, and also Hungary occupied and also annexed Slovenia, with a small location transferred to Croatia, a Nazi puppet state at that time. In 1945, It came to be an establishing member of Yugoslavia. Post-war, Yugoslavia was allied with the Eastern Bloc, yet after the Tito– Stalin split of 1948, it never registered for the Warsaw Deal, and also in 1961, it became one of the owners of the Non-Aligned Activity. In June 1991, Slovenia became the first republic to divide from Yugoslavia and also end up being an independent sovereign state.

Slovenia is a developed nation, with a high-income economy ranking highly in the Human being Development Index. The Gini index rates its income inequality amongst the lowest worldwide. It is a member of the United Nations, the European Union, the Eurozone, the Schengen Area, the OSCE, the OECD, the Council of Europe, and NATO.