Basic information

Area: 20,273 km2
Length of borders: 1,370 km in total; with Austria, 318 km; with Italy, 280 km; with Hungary, 102 km; with Croatia, 670 km

Length of coastline: 46.6 km
Population: 2,008,516 (30.6.2006)
Population density: 98.7 inh. per km2
Nationalities: (2002 census): Slovenian 1,631,363; Italian 2,258; Hungarian 6,243; other nationalities: 149,259; nationality undeclared: 174,913;

Language: Slovene; also Italian and Hungarian in nationally mixed areas;
Currency: euro (since 1 January 2007)
Capital: Ljubljana

The Republic of Slovenia (Slovenian: Republika Slovenija) is a coastal Alpine country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north.