Slovenia country guide — references and map notes Reviewed 20 October 2026 Core facts European Union country profile: https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/eu-countries/slovenia_en The profile reports population 2,135,107 and area 20,273 km² using Eurostat's 2026 figures. These are dated source figures. EU entry: 1 May 2004; euro: 1 January 2007; Schengen: 21 December 2007. It lists 212 municipalities. Area figures can differ slightly between sources and reference dates. Government of Slovenia, country overview: https://www.gov.si/en/topics/slovenia/ National Assembly and National Council: https://www.dz-rs.si/wps/portal/en/Home/ https://www.ds-rs.si/en Slovenian state institutions and bilingual minority rights; the Assembly has 90 members and the Council 40. The prime minister leads the government. Heritage, nature and places UNESCO's Slovenia World Heritage list: https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/si/ Lists the Škocjan Caves, selected Plečnik works in Ljubljana, the mercury heritage shared by Almadén and Idrija, and components of the transnational pile-dwelling and beech-forest properties. Lake Bled and Postojna Cave are not themselves inscribed properties. UNESCO intangible heritage, Slovenia: https://ich.unesco.org/en/state/slovenia-SI?info=elements-on-the-lists Living traditions include kurenti rounds, bobbin lace-making, beekeeping and shared Lipizzan horse breeding traditions. These differ from World Heritage. Triglav National Park: https://www.tnp.si/en/ Slovenia has one national park. The park's approximately 840 km² is roughly four percent of the country's area, rather than the old quiz answer of 15%. National-park, Natura 2000 and other protection designations can overlap. Official tourism portal: https://www.slovenia.info/en Koper port: https://www.luka-kp.si/en/ Background references used for reading, sight descriptions and quiz review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Slovenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Slovenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freising_manuscripts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primo%C5%BE_Trubar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Slovenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Slovenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Slovenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triglav_National_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenian_cuisine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idrijski_%C5%BElikrofi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carniolan_sausage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Slovenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janez_Burger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_Trump Quiz review All 80 existing Slovenia questions were read. 52 receive display-time corrections through slovenia-facts-patches.json. All original lookup prompts matched the 80 production API questions before release. Corrections preserve question IDs, lesson IDs and progress; no database or seed edits are required. Corrections include the national park percentage, Elan as a ski maker, Novo Mesto as Melania Trump's birthplace, žlikrofi as TSG, the dual and earliest connected Slovenian texts, regional rather than Alpine Jurjevanje, and the seventh stanza of Zdravljica. Undated rankings and subjective claims have been replaced with stable, clearly answerable questions. Map sources and scope The land outline extracts the SI feature in the repository's countries.geojson (Natural Earth, public domain). It is generalised and may omit small coastal details. City centres and sight points are curated representative coordinates and checked within a three-kilometre margin of that outline. City pins locate settlements, not municipal areas. The two complete eight-place learning groups are Ljubljana, Alps and coast; and Eastern cities and valleys. They are not administrative or statistical regions. Rebuild map assets with: node scripts/build-slovenia-map.mjs Landscape pins are not routes, trailheads or guaranteed public entrances. Essential and Worth a detour are learning priorities, not official rankings. Photography All photos are served locally and credited in the guide. Three new images have adjacent .source.json files recording source, author and licence. The banner and seven topic pictures reuse existing credited Slovenian assets. Banner: /images/speak/slovenian/challenge.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragons_Bridge,_Ljubljana_2.jpg Thomas Ledl, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Geography: /images/speak/slovenian/numbers-money.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mangart_16.jpg kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons History: /images/speak/slovenian/ordering.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ptuj,_city_cinema.jpg Ajznponar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Language: /images/country-guides/slovenia/language.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matej_Sternen_-_Primo%C5%BE_Trubar.jpg Matej Sternen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Culture: /images/speak/slovenian/time-days.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lipica_horses_(7198987762).jpg Gorupka from Slovenia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Economy: /images/country-guides/slovenia/economy.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:03_Port_of_Koper_aerial_view%2C_Slovenia_-_Luka_Koper.jpg Marek Ślusarczyk (Tupungato) Photo portfolio, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Politics: /images/country-guides/slovenia/politics.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flags_at_the_Slovenian_Parliament_21.06.2025.jpg Thycoop, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Nature: /images/speak/slovenian/supermarket.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Postojna_Cave._2012-07-26_13-41-13.jpg Shesmax, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Food: /images/speak/slovenian/help.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Velika_no%C4%8D_-_jedila_hren_%C5%A1unka_pirhi_potica.jpg Klemen Brumec, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Landmarks: /images/speak/slovenian/greetings.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Bled_from_the_Mountain.jpg Canadianhockey91, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons People: /images/speak/slovenian/small-talk.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drama_theatre_in_Ljubljana,_2011.jpg Mihael Grmek, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons