 Slovenia
is also referred to as the Republic of Slovenia. It is
located in the central Europe and on its west border,
Slovenia has Italy; on its east and south it has
Croatia, on its north it has Austria, on its northeast
it has Hungary and it has the Adriatic Sea on its
Southwest.
Ljubljana is the capital of this nation. The
tourism industry is very important to the economy of
Slovenia. The country has different kinds of landscapes
like Dinaric, Mediterranean, Alpine and Pannonian.
Slovenia is a nation that is surrounded by the
Mediterranean Sea and it also touches the Alps. Majority
of the terrain in this country is mountainous. About 90%
of the surface region is at least two hundred meters
above the sea level. Most of the populations in Slovenia
are Slovene (about 4/5th of the people).
There are also
other ethnic groups of Montenegrin, Macedonian, Serbian,
Bosnian and Croatian origins. These groups formed about
5% of the population of the country. There are also
people of Italian, Hungarian, Roma and Albanian origins.
Slovene is the official language of the country but
Italian and Hungarian are also spoken here. Roman
Catholicism is the main religion of the country as more
than half of the populations of Slovenia are Roman
Catholics.
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