SLOVENIA
Republic of Slovenia
• Capital Ljubljana
• Founded October 29, 1918
• Est. Independence June 25, 1991
• Joined United Nations May 22, 1992
• Joined NATO in 2004
• Unitary Parliament Gov’t, member of U.N., E.U. and of course, NATO.
• Current President is Borut Pahor
• Current Prime Minister is Miro Cerar
Languages
• Slovenian (official) 91.1%
• Serbo-Croatian 4.5%
• Other or unspecified 4.4%,
• Italian (official, only in municipalities where Italian national
communities reside)
• Hungarian (official, only in municipalities where Hungarian national
communities reside) (2002 census)
Population/Ethnic Groups
• Population 2,081,260
• Slovene 83.1%
• Serb 2%
• Croat 1.8%
• Bosniak 1.1%
• other or unspecified 12%
Religion
• Catholic 57.8%
• Muslim 2.4%
• Orthodox 2.3%
• other Christian 0.9%
• unaffiliated 3.5%
• other or unspecified 23%
• none 10.1%
Military Personnel
• 7,300 Active Duty
• 1,500 Reserves
Used as the national
flag and naval ensign.
Adopted in 1991.
Currency
• Euro
• 1 Euro equals 1.14 USD