| Slovenia-at-a-Glance |
| Capital
city: Ljubljana |
| Government:
Parliamentary Democracy |
| Population:
1,930,132 (2001 est.) |
|
Ethnic groups: Slovene 88%,
Croat 3%, Serb 2.6%, Bosnian 1%, Hungarian
0.4%, other 5%
|
|
Independence Day: June 25
(1991)
|
| National
Cultural Holiday: February 8 |
| Gross
Domestic Product: $22.9 billion
(2000 est.) |
| GDP
growth rate: 4.5% (2000 est.) |
| GDP
per capita: $16,000 (2001 est.)
|
| Climate:
Mediterranean climate on the coast,
continental climate with mild to hot
summers and cold winters in the plateaus
and valleys to the east |
| Terrain:
A short coastal strip on the Adriatic,
an alpine mountain region adjacent to
Italy and Austria, mixed mountain and
valleys with numerous rivers to the
east |
|
U.S.,
Slovenian and other sources
|
