Slovenia (Slovenija in Slovenian), country in south central Europe, bounded on the north by Austria, on the northeast by Hungary, on the southeast and south by Croatia, and on the west by Italy and the Adriatic Sea.
Slovenia is mountainous, much like Austria to the north and northern Italy to the west, and has heavily forested regions.
The population of Slovenia at the 1991 census was 1,962,606.
From that time until 1918 Slovenia was part of Austria and the region was largely comprised in the Austrian crownlands of Carinthia, Carniola, and Styria.
Slovenia, along with Croatia, was recognized as an independent country by the European Community and the United Nations in 1992.
Milan Ku an was elected president of Slovenia in 1990 and continued as president of the independent republic; he was reelected in Nov., 1997.
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