5 days ago · Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: Republika Slovenija) is a country in Central Europe. Slovenia borders Italy to the west (280 km), Hungary to the northeast (102 km), Austria to the north (318 km) and Croatia to the south and east (670 km). It also has a small portion of coastline along the Adriatic Sea (46,6 km).
Croatia and Slovenia share a roughly 400-mile border that was at the epicenter of Europe's refugee crisis. In 2015, Hungary closed its border with Croatia to redirect hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers—many of them en route to Austria and Germany from Africa and the Middle East—toward Slovenia is part of the passport-free travel area 16 days on the road between Croatia and Slovenia. Day 1: Skocjan Caves and Ljubljana. Day 2: Ljubljana and Lake Bled. Day 3: Lake Bled -> Second night in Bled. Day 4: Visit Maribor. Road Trip in Croatia: driving to Dubrovnik. Day 5: Entry into Croatia to the Plitvice Lakes. Day 6: Plitvice Lakes. Day 7: Toward Dubrovnik. A landlocked country is a country that does not have territory connected to an ocean or whose coastlines lie solely on endorheic basins. There are currently 44 landlocked countries, 2 of them doubly landlocked, and 4 landlocked de facto states. Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country, while Ethiopia is the world's most populous The border dispute, dating back to the 1991 breakup of Yugoslavia, prompted Slovenia to veto large parts of Croatia’s EU talks in December. (EURACTIV with Reuters.) Read more with Euractiv