Municipalities Of Slovenia

Slovenia is divided into 212 municipalities ( Slovene: ''občine'', singular'' občina''), of which 12 have urban (metropolitan) status. Municipalities are further divided into local communities and districts.

Slovene is an official language of all the municipalities. Hungarian is a second official language of three municipalities in Prekmurje: Dobrovnik/Dobronak, Hodoš/Hodos, and Lendava/Lendva. Italian is a second official language of four municipalities (of which one has urban status) in the Slovene Littoral: Ankaran/Ancarano, Izola/Isola, Koper/Capodistria, and Piran/Pirano.

In the EU statistics, the municipalities of Slovenia are classified as "local administrative unit 2" (LAU 2), below 58 administrative units ('), which are LAU 1.

Names

The Slovene names of the municipalities have the word ''Občina'' 'municipality' followed by a nominative form, usually the seat of the municipality; for example, ''Občina Ajdovščina'' 'Municipality of Ajdovščina'.

List of Slovenian municipalities

Slovenia is divided into 212 municipalities, of which 12 has urban status.

City municipalities

See also

* ISO 3166-2:SI
* NUTS:SI

References

External links

Review of municipalities and appurtenant spatial units and house numbers, 1 January 2011
Published by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia.

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