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Slovenia is small enough to cross in an afternoon, and it still packs in the Julian Alps, the Karst plateau, a short stretch of Adriatic coast and the flat Pannonian plain along the Hungarian border. The twelve statistical regions are how the country talks about itself in its own statistics, and they are the tier worth learning before the municipalities.
The statistične regije: twelve regions that Statistics Slovenia and Eurostat use as NUTS 3. They have no government of their own, which is why the country has no signs that say "welcome to Gorenjska", but they are what a Slovene means by "the Primorska" or "the Štajerska", and most are named for a river or a historic land.
The English names are the common ones (Upper Carniola, Mura, Savinja), and the local name is a switch in the start dialog: Upper Carniola is Gorenjska, Mura is Pomurska. The Central Sava region, a mining and industrial valley, is the smallest of the twelve.
The groups are the two cohesion regions the country is split into for EU funding: Eastern Slovenia, which holds the Mura, Drava and Savinja valleys and everything south-east of them, and Western Slovenia, which is Ljubljana, the Alps and the coast. The regions are the municipalities of Slovenia Municipalities dissolved, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Central Slovenia holds Ljubljana and a quarter of the country's people. It is the hub of the map, and a good first answer because everything else is described as being north, south or east of it.
Slovenia has about forty-six kilometres of coast, and Coastal-Karst is all of it: Koper, Izola, Piran and the new municipality of Ankaran. It is Italian as well as Slovene on the signs, and one of the smallest regions on the map.
Central Sava is a handful of mining and industrial towns, Trbovlje, Hrastnik and Zagorje ob Savi among them, in a deep valley between Ljubljana and Celje. It is the smallest region by a wide margin, and the one most often skipped.
Twelve statistical regions. They are not administrative regions with a government: the country has municipalities and, for state business, administrative units, and the regions sit above them for statistics and planning.
The twelve are NUTS 3. Eurostat groups them into two cohesion regions, NUTS 2, Eastern Slovenia and Western Slovenia, which is how EU funds are divided. The groups in this quiz are those two.
It does: the historic lands of Carniola, Styria, Carinthia and the Littoral are how Slovenes still talk about the map. They do not line up with the statistical regions, which is why this quiz uses the statistical ones.
The tier below this one is Slovenia Municipalities, whose regions are the groups there. For another small country at this level, see Austria States.
