About Slovenia

Official name: Republic of Slovenia

Capital city: Ljubljana

Government: Parliamentary Republic

State President: Borut Pahor

Prime Minister: dr. Robert Golob

Local government: 212 municipalities, of which 11 have urban status; 12 statistical regions, which are grouped into two cohesion regions – Western and Eastern Slovenia

Area: 20,273 km2

Population: 2,107,126 (1 April 2021)

Location: bordered by Austria, Italy, Hungary and Croatia; excellent connections with all European markets

Currency: Euro

GDP per capita: 22,312 (2020)

Growth in 2020: -4.2 %

Projected growth for 2022: 4.2 % (Consensus Economics, September 2021)

Time zone: CET (GMT+1), and CEST (GMT+2) in summer

Official languages: Slovene, together with Italian and Hungarian, respectively in the areas with Italian and Hungarian minorities.

Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS)