Slovenia in other languages: exonyms, Ljubljana, regions and anthem
Slovenia is Slovenija in Slovenian, officially Republika Slovenija, with the ISO codes SI, SVN and 705; Hungarian and Italian are official where those communities live. The name is listed here in 176 languages and variants and Ljubljana in 74, followed by the 12 statistical regions.
Official languagesSlovenian (slovenščina); Hungarian (magyar) and Italian (italiano) in the areas of the two national communities
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- alpha-2
- SI
- alpha-3
- SVN
- numeric
- 705
Republika Slovenija
Szlovén Köztársaság
Repubblica Slovena
- English
- SloveniaRepublic of Slovenia
- Capital
- LjubljanaLubianaLjubljana
ISO 3166-1, checked 28 October 2026. Flag after the Wikimedia Commons drawing.
Slovenia in other languages: list of exonyms
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, Breton, Faroese, Finnish, Kven, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Javanese, Greenlandic, Latin, Lingala, Ladin, Norwegian, Novial, Romansh, Romanian, Aromanian, Sicilian, Northern Sami, Swahili | eng / bre / fao / fin / fkv / ina / ind / ita / jav / kal / lat / lin / lld / nor / nov / roh / ron / rup / scn / sme / swa | Slovenia | same as written |
| Asturian, Basque, Galician, Spanish | ast / eus / glg / spa | Eslovenia | same as written |
| Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karakalpak | crh / gag / kaa | Sloveniya / Словения | Sloveniya |
| German, Luxembourgish, Low German, North Frisian, Saterland Frisian | deu / ltz / nds / frr / stq | Slowenien | same as written |
| Catalan, Occitan | cat / oci | Eslovènia | same as written |
| Czech, Slovak | ces / slk | Slovinsko | same as written |
| Cornish, Haitian Creole | cor / hat | Sloveni | same as written |
| Danish, Swedish | dan / swe | Slovenien | same as written |
| French, Jersey Norman French | fra / jnf | Slovénie | same as written |
| Croatian, Slovenian | hrv / slv | Slovenija | same as written |
| Kinyarwanda, Kirundi | kin / run | Sloveniya | same as written |
| Limburgish, Dutch | lim / nld | Slovenië | same as written |
| Afrikaans | afr | Slowenië | same as written |
| Aragonese | arg | Eslobenia | same as written |
| Aymara | aym | Isluwiña | same as written |
| Azerbaijani | aze | Sloveniya / Словенија | Sloveniya |
| Bambara | bam | Silɔweni | same as written |
| Bosnian | bos | Slovenija / Словенија / سلۉوەنٖىيا | Slovenija |
| Kashubian | csb | Slowenijô, Sloweńskô | same as written |
| Welsh | cym | Slofenia | same as written |
| Lower Sorbian | dsb | Słowjeńska | same as written |
| Esperanto | epo | Slovenujo, Slovenio | same as written |
| Estonian | est | Sloveenia | same as written |
| Franco-Provençal | frp | Slovènie | same as written |
| West Frisian | fry | Sloveenje | same as written |
| Friulian | fur | Slovenie | same as written |
| Scottish Gaelic | gla | Sloibhìnia, An t-Slòbhain | same as written |
| Irish | gle | An tSlóivéin, An tSlovéin | same as written |
| Manx | glv | Yn Clovean | same as written |
| Guarani | grn | Eloveña | same as written |
| Upper Sorbian | hsb | Słowjenska | same as written |
| Hungarian | hun | Szlovénia | same as written |
| Igbo | ibo | Slọvinia | same as written |
| Icelandic | isl | Slóvenía | same as written |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Slovenya | same as written |
| Latvian | lav | Slovēnija | same as written |
| Lithuanian | lit | Slovėnija | same as written |
| Latgalian | ltg | Sloveneja | same as written |
| Malagasy | mlg | Slôvenia | same as written |
| Maltese | mlt | Slovenja | same as written |
| Moldovan | mol | Slovenia / Словения | Slovenia |
| Maori | mri | Horowinia | same as written |
| Malay | msa | Slovenia / سلوۏينيا | Slovenia |
| Nahuatl | nah | Esloventlān | same as written |
| Norman French | nrm | Eslovénîn | same as written |
| Polish | pol | Słowenia | same as written |
| Portuguese | por | Eslovénia / Eslovênia | same as written |
| Quechua | que | Isluwinya | same as written |
| Kalderash Romani | rmy | Sloveniya / स्लोवेनिया | Sloveniya |
| Slovio | slo | Slovenia / Словениа, Slovenzem / Словензем | Slovenia, Slovenzem |
| Samogitian | smg | Slovienėjė | same as written |
| Samoan | smo | Solovenia | same as written |
| Albanian | sqi | Sllovenia | same as written |
| Sardinian | srd | Islovénia | same as written |
| Silesian | szl | Suowyńja | same as written |
| Tetum | tet | Eslovénia | same as written |
| Turkmen | tuk | Sloweniýa / Словения | Sloweniýa |
| Turkish | tur | Slovenya, İslovenya | same as written |
| Uzbek | uzb | Sloveniya / Словения / سلاۋېنىيە | Sloveniya |
| Veps | vep | Slovenii | same as written |
| Vietnamese | vie | Xlô-ven-ni-a | same as written |
| Volapük | vol | Slovenän | same as written |
| Võro | vor | Sloveeniä | same as written |
| Walloon | wln | Esloveneye | same as written |
| Wolof | wol | Esloweeni | same as written |
| Zazaki | zza | Slowenya | same as written |
| Old Church Slavonic | chu | Словѣні́ꙗ | Slověnī́ja |
| Abaza, Altai, Bulgarian, Khakas, Komi, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Lezgi, Russian, Yakut, Tuvan, Udmurt, Kalmyk | abq / alt / bul / kjh / kom / krc / kum / lez / rus / sah / tyv / udm / xal | Словения | Slovenija |
| Chuvash, Mongolian, Ossetian | chv / mon / oss | Словени | Sloveni |
| Rusyn, Ukrainian | rue / ukr | Словенія | Slovenija |
| Abkhaz | abk | Словениа | Slovenia |
| Avar | ava | Словения | Slowenija |
| Bashkir | bak | Словения / Sloveniya | Sloveniya |
| Belarusian | bel | Славенія / Słavienija, Славэнія / Słavenija | Słavienija, Słavenija |
| Chechen | che | Словени / Sloveni | Sloveni |
| Kazakh | kaz | Словения / سلوۆەنيا / Slovenïya | Slovenïya |
| Kabardian | kbd | Словениэ | Sloveniă |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Словения / سلوۋەنىيا / Sloveniya | Sloveniya |
| Kurdish (Caucasus) | kmr | Словени / Slovênî | Slovênî |
| Meadow Mari | mhr | Словений | Slovenij |
| Macedonian | mkd | Словенија | Slovenija |
| Serbian | srp | Словенија / Slovenija | Slovenija |
| Tatar | tat | Словения / Sloveniä / سلوۋېنىيە | Sloveniä |
| Tajik | tgk | Словения / سلاوینیه / Slovenija | Slovenija |
| Arabic | ara | سلوفينيا, سلوفانيا | Silūfīniyā, Silūfāniyā |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | سلووئنییا / Sloveniya | Sloveniya |
| Sorani Kurdish | ckb | سلۆڤێنیا / Slovênya | Slovênya |
| Persian | fas | اسلوونی / Esloveni | Esloveni |
| Western Punjabi | pnb | سلوینیا | Slōvīniyā |
| Dari | prs | سلووانیا | Slōvāniyā |
| Pashto | pus | سلووانيا, سلووېنيا / سلوېنيا | Slōwāniyā, Slōweniyā |
| Uyghur | uig | سلوۋېنىيە / Slowéniye / Словения | Slowéniye |
| Urdu | urd | سلوینیا, سلووینیا | Slovēniyā, Slōvēniyā |
| Dhivehi | div | ސްލޮވީނިއާ | Slovīniā |
| Syriac | syr | ܣܠܘܦܝܢܝܐ, ܣܠܘܒܢܝܐ | Slōpēniyā, Slōbeniyā |
| Hebrew | heb | סלובניה | Slōṿenyah |
| Ladino | lad | איסלובﬞיניה / Eslovenia | Eslovenia |
| Yiddish | yid | סלאָװעניע | Slovenye |
| Berber | ber | ⵙⵍⵓⴼⵉⵏⵢⴰ / Slufinya | Slufinya |
| Amharic | amh | ስሎቬኒያ | Sloveniya |
| Greek | ell | Σλοβενία, Σλοβηνία | Slovenía, Slovīnía |
| Armenian | hye | Սլովենիա | Slovenia |
| Georgian, Mingrelian | kat / xmf | სლოვენია | Slovenia |
| Laz | lzz | სლოვენია / Slovenia | Slovenia |
| Hindi | hin | स्लोवेनिया | Sloveniyā |
| Nepali | nep | स्लोभेनिया | Slobʰeniyā |
| Bengali | ben | স্লোভেনিয়া | Slobʰeniyā |
| Gujarati | guj | સ્લોવેનિયા | Sloveniyā |
| Odia | ori | ସ୍ଲୋଭେନିଆ | Slobʰeniā |
| Punjabi | pan | ਸਲੋਵੀਨੀਆ | Slovīnīā |
| Sinhala | sin | ස්ලොවෙනියාව | Sloveniyāva |
| Kannada | kan | ಸ್ಲೊವೇನಿಯ | Slovēniya |
| Malayalam | mal | സ്ലോവേനിയ | Slōvēniya |
| Tamil | tam | ஸ்லொவேனியா, ஸ்லோவேனியா | Slovēṉiyā, Slōvēṉiyā |
| Telugu | tel | స్లొవేనియా | Slovēniyā |
| Chinese | zho | 斯洛文尼亞/斯洛文尼亚 | Sīluòwénníyà |
| Japanese | jpn | スロヴェニア, スロベニア | Surovenia, Surobenia |
| Korean | kor | 슬로베니아 | Seullobenia |
| Tibetan | bod | སི་ལོ་ཝེ་ནི་ཡ། | Si.lo.we.ni.ya |
| Dzongkha | dzo | སིལོ་བེ་ནི་ཡ། | Silo.be.ni.ya |
| Burmese | mya | ဆလိုဗေးနီးယား | Sʰálobènìyà |
| Thai | tha | สโลวีเนีย | Salōwīniya |
| Khmer | khm | ស្លូវ៉ានី | Slūvānī |
Czech and Slovak write Slovinsko for Slovenia and Slovensko for their own or neighbouring Slovakia. Church Slavonic keeps the old spelling Словѣні́ꙗ with the letter yat.
Slovenija, Slovinsko, Laibach
Slovenia calls itself Slovenija, and the state is Republika Slovenija. Hungarian, official in the Prekmurje municipalities along the border, says Szlovén Köztársaság, and Italian, official on the coast around Koper, Repubblica Slovena. The adjective is slovenski, while the language itself is slovenščina.
The country name is easily confused with Slovakia, and the confusion runs through the table. Czech and Slovak call Slovenia Slovinsko, one letter away from Slovensko. German has Slowenien, Hungarian Szlovénia, Polish Słowenia. Cyrillic languages write Словения or, in Serbian and Macedonian, Словенија.
For the capital the exonyms reach further back. German still lists Laibach, Italian and Tetum Lubiana, Czech Lublaň, Polish Lublana, and Latin the Roman town Emona. Azerbaijani writes Lyublyana, Latvian Ļubļana with two soft consonants.
Ljubljana in other languages
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, French, Croatian, Slovenian, Irish | eng / fra / hrv / slv / gle | Ljubljana | same as written |
| Aragonese, Asturian, Galician, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Spanish | arg / ast / glg / lit / por / spa | Liubliana | same as written |
| German, Luxembourgish, Low German | deu / ltz / nds | Laibach, Ljubljana | same as written |
| Italian, Tetum | ita / tet | Lubiana | same as written |
| Azerbaijani | aze | Lyublyana / Лјублјана | Lyublyana |
| Bosnian | bos | Ljubljana / Љубљана / ڵۆبڵانا | Ljubljana |
| Czech | ces | Lublaň | same as written |
| Esperanto | epo | Ljubljano | same as written |
| Friulian, Romansh | fur / roh | Lubiane | same as written |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Liyûbliyana | same as written |
| Latin | lat | Aemona, Emona | same as written |
| Latvian | lav | Ļubļana | same as written |
| Moldovan | mol | Ljubljana / Любляна | Ljubljana |
| Malay | msa | Ljubljana / ليوبليانا | Ljubljana |
| Polish | pol | Lublana | same as written |
| Slovak | slk | Ľubľana | same as written |
| Samogitian | smg | Liublijana | same as written |
| Albanian | sqi | Lubjana | same as written |
| Turkmen | tuk | Lýublýana / Любляна | Lýublýana |
| Turkish | tur | Lubyana | same as written |
| Uzbek | uzb | Lyublyana / Любляна / ليۇبليەنە | Lyublyana |
| Old Church Slavonic | chu | Люблꙗ́на | Ljubljána |
| Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian | bul / rus / ukr | Любляна | Ljubljana |
| Bashkir | bak | Любляна / Lyublyana | Lyublyana |
| Belarusian | bel | Любляна / Lublana | Lublana |
| Chuvash | chv | Люблянӑ | Ljubljană |
| Kazakh | kaz | Любляна / ليۋبليانا / Lywblyana | Lywblyana |
| Kabardian | kbd | Люблянэ | Ljubljană |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Любляна / ليۇبليانا / Lyublyana | Lyublyana |
| Mongolian | mon | Люблян | Ljubljan |
| Ossetian | oss | Люблянӕ | Ljubljanä |
| Serbian | srp | Љубљана / Ljubljana | Ljubljana |
| Tatar | tat | Любляна / Lyublyana / ليۇبليانا | Lyublyana |
| Tajik | tgk | Любляна / لیوبلینه / Ljubljana | Ljubljana |
| Arabic | ara | لوبليانا, ليوبليانا, لوبلانا | Lūbliyānā, Liyūbliyānā, Lūblānā |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | لیوبلیانا / Lyublyana | Lyublyana |
| Persian | fas | لیوبلیانا / Liyubliyânâ, لایباخ / Lâybâx | Liyubliyânâ, Lâybâx |
| Pashto | pus | ليوبليانا | Liyūbliyānā |
| Uyghur | uig | ليۇبليانا / Lyublyana / Любляна | Lyublyana |
| Urdu | urd | لیوبلیانا | Liyūbliyānā |
| Syriac | syr | ܠܘܒܠܘܢܐ | Lūblūnā |
| Hebrew | heb | לובליאנה | Lūblyānah |
| Yiddish | yid | ליובליאַנאַ | Lyublyana |
| Amharic | amh | ልዩብልያና | Lyubəlyana |
| Greek | ell | Λιουμπλιάνα, Λιουβλιάνα | Lioympliána, Lioyvliána |
| Armenian | hye | Լյուբլյանա | Lyoublyana |
| Georgian | kat | ლიუბლიანა | Liubliana |
| Hindi | hin | ल्युबल्याना | Lyubalyānā |
| Nepali | nep | जबल्जाना | Jabaljānā |
| Bengali | ben | লিউব্লিয়ানা / লিউবলিয়ানা | Liubliyānā |
| Punjabi | pan | ਲਯੂਬਲੀਯਾਨਾ | Lyūblīyānā |
| Kannada | kan | ಲ್ಯುಬ್ಲಾನಾ | Lyublānā |
| Tamil | tam | லியுபுல்யானா | Liyupulyāṉā |
| Telugu | tel | లుబ్జానా | Lubjānā |
| Chinese | zho | 盧布爾雅那/卢布尔雅那 | Lúbù'ěryǎnà |
| Japanese | jpn | リュブリャナ | Ryuburyana |
| Korean | kor | 류블랴나, 류블라나 | Lyubeullyana, Lyubeullana |
| Thai | tha | ลูบลิยานา, ลีอูบลีอานา | Lūpliyānā, Lī'ūplī'ānā |
| Khmer | khm | ល្យូបល្យាណា | Lyūblyāṇā |
German keeps the historical name Laibach beside Ljubljana; Latin uses the Roman name Emona or Aemona.
The 12 urban municipalities of Slovenia with ISO 3166-2 codes
ISO 3166-2:SI codes all 212 municipalities (občine) with the three-digit numbers of the statistical office. Twelve of them are urban municipalities (mestne občine), the larger towns, listed here with their Hungarian or Italian name where the list or ISO gives one. The full list, region by region, is on the subdivisions page.
| ISO 3166-2 | Slovenian | Hungarian | Italian | English | Administrative centre | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban municipalities mestne občine12 | ||||||
| SI-011 | Celje | Celje | CeljeCelje | |||
| SI-050 | Koper | Capodistria | Koper | KoperKoper | ||
| SI-052 | Kranj | Kranj | KranjKranj | |||
| SI-054 | Krško | Krško | KrškoKrško | |||
| SI-061 | Ljubljana | Ljubljana | LjubljanaLjubljana | |||
| SI-070 | Maribor | Maribor | MariborMaribor | |||
| SI-080 | Murska Sobota | Muraszombat | Murska Sobota | Murska SobotaMurska Sobota | ||
| SI-084 | Nova Gorica | Nova Gorica | Nova GoricaNova Gorica | |||
| SI-085 | Novo Mesto | Novo Mesto | Novo MestoNovo Mesto | |||
| SI-096 | Ptuj | Ptuj | PtujPtuj | |||
| SI-112 | Slovenj Gradec | Slovenj Gradec | Slovenj GradecSlovenj Gradec | |||
| SI-133 | Velenje | Velenje | VelenjeVelenje | |||
Codes and categories: ISO 3166-2:SI on the ISO Online Browsing Platform, as tabulated in Wikipedia's ISO 3166-2:SI, checked 28 October 2026; ISO added the category urban municipality in November 2022. Italian: the local variant ISO publishes for Koper. Hungarian: Muraszombat for Murska Sobota, from the list.
All 212 municipalities by region, with Hungarian and Italian names
The 12 statistical regions of Slovenia and their centres
| Statistical region (statistična regija) | Hungarian or Italian name | Centre | Municipalities | Earlier name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gorenjska | – | Kranj | 18 | same |
| Goriška | – | Nova Gorica | 13 | same |
| Jugovzhodna Slovenija | – | Novo mesto | 21 | Jugovzhodna regija |
| Koroška | – | Slovenj Gradec | 12 | same |
| Primorsko-notranjska | – | Postojna | 6 | Notranjsko-kraška regija |
| Obalno-kraška | Regione Carsico-litoranea | Koper (Capodistria) | 8 | same |
| Osrednjeslovenska | – | Ljubljana | 25 | same |
| Podravska | – | Maribor | 41 | same |
| Pomurska | Muravidék régió | Murska Sobota (Muraszombat) | 27 | same |
| Savinjska | – | Celje | 31 | same |
| Posavska | – | Krško | 6 | Spodnjeposavska regija |
| Zasavska | – | Trbovlje | 4 | same |
Region names and the assignment of municipalities: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, regions as revised from 1 January 2015, as tabulated in the Slovenian Wikipedia list of municipalities (Seznam občin v Sloveniji), checked 28 October 2026. ISO 3166-2:SI does not code the regions; it codes the 212 municipalities, SI-001 to SI-213.
Statistical regions and the 2015 revision
Slovenia has no regional tier of government. The 12 statistical regions, created by decree in 2000, group the municipalities for statistics and planning, and each region is named after a historical landscape or a river: Gorenjska is Upper Carniola, Podravska the Drava valley, Pomurska the Mura.
On 1 January 2015 two regions were renamed and four had their borders redrawn. Notranjsko-kraška became primorsko-notranjska, Spodnjeposavska became posavska. Radeče and Bistrica ob Sotli moved from the Savinja region to posavska, and Litija from the central region to zasavska. The municipalities of Mirna and Ankaran, added in 2011, account for the total of 212.
Zdravljica, the national anthem
The anthem is the seventh stanza of Zdravljica (A Toast), a poem France Prešeren wrote in 1844 and published in 1848. It became the regional anthem in 1989 and the national anthem with independence in 1991. Its six lines wish for a day when every nation lives free and a neighbour is no longer an enemy:
- Žive naj vsi narodi
- ki hrepene dočakat’ dan,
- da koder sonce hodi,
- prepir iz sveta bo pregnan,
- da rojak prost bo vsak,
- ne vrag, le sosed bo mejak!
Questions about the names and regions of Slovenia
What is Slovenia called in Slovenian?
Slovenija; the full name of the state is Republika Slovenija.
What are the ISO codes of Slovenia?
SI (alpha-2), SVN (alpha-3) and 705 (numeric) in ISO 3166-1. ISO 3166-2:SI codes the 212 municipalities.
Which languages besides Slovenian are official in Slovenia?
Hungarian in the bilingual municipalities of Prekmurje, such as Lendava (Lendva), and Italian in the coastal municipalities, such as Koper (Capodistria) and Piran (Pirano).