General Information

Capital:

Ljubljana 269,972 (1995 est.)

Area:

20,256 sq km (7,820 sq mi)

Form of government

Parliamentary Democratic Republic

GDP per capita

Purchasing power parity-$10,900 (1999 est.)

Population

1,970,570 (July 1999 est.)

Ethnic composition

Slovene - 91%

Croat - 3%

Serb - 2%

Muslim - 1%

Other - 3%

(Yugoslavs, Macedonians, Montenegris, Albanians, Italians, Hungarians, Greeks, Slovaks, Czechs, Bulgarians, Russians, Russinians, Austrians, Romanians, Polish, Germans, Roma, Jews, Vlachs, Ukrainians, Turks)

Official Language(s)

Slovenian

In communities with Italian or Hungarian populations, Italian or Hungarian shall also be the official language (Article 11 of the Constitution).

Minority Language(s)

Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Italian, Hungarian, others

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