page_title: Slovenia
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Slovenia / Culture
caption_attribution_description: Impressionist painting. A man walks in a field and throws seed. In the background, a hayrack and Kamnitnik Hill at Škofja Loka (northwestern Slovenia) are visible.
context_page_description: Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country located in Europe at the crossroads of main European cultural and trade routes.
  It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. Slovenia covers 20,271 square kilometers and has a population of 2.095 million. One of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia is now a parliamentary republic and member nation of the European Union, United Nations, and NATO. The capital and largest city is Ljubljana.
  Slovenia has a mostly mountainous terrain with a mainly continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral, which has a sub-Mediterranean climate, and of the Julian Alps in the northwest, which have an Alpine climate. Additionally, the Dinaric Alps and the Pannonian Plain meet on the territory of Slovenia. The country, marked by significant biological diversity, is one of the most water-rich in Europe, with a dense river network, a rich aquifer system, and significant karst underground watercourses. Over half of the territory is covered by forest. The human settlement of Slovenia is dispersed and uneven.
caption: The Sower (1907), by the Impressionist painter Ivan Grohar, became a metaphor for Slovenes[267][268] and was a reflection of the transition from a rural to an urban culture.[269]
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