Slovenia: Municipal flags

Last modified: 2005-07-09 by ivan sache
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• Administrative divisions in Slovenia
• Display of municipal flags in Slovenia
• Coat of arms on Slovene car license plates
• List of the Slovene municipalities
• List of the Slovene statistical regions

See also:

• Slovenia
• Clickable map of Slovenia

Other link of interest:

• Heraldika d.o.o., the commercial branch of the Slovenian Heraldic and Vexillologic Society, which is FIAV member, and is responsible for quite a number of modern Slovenian municipal flags and coat of arms.

Administrative divisions in Slovenia

At independence in 1991, Slovenia retained the administrative subdivision with 65 communities (občina) until 1st January 1995, when a new division was made with 145 municipalities (as it was common to name them now in English, but still called občina in Slovenian). In 1998 the number of municipalities was further increased to 181, and at the same time 11 of them were given the status of civic municipality (mestna občina). In 2002, the new municipality of Šmartno pri Litiji was formed.

The website of the Statistical Office of Republic of Slovenia shows a map with the 194 municipalities. The 12 statistical regions (Statistična regija) shown on the map have no administrative meaning and therefore no flags, though at least some of them may match historical regions.

Željko Heimer, 23 October 2002

Display of municipal flags in Slovenia

The most common way of displaying the municipal flags in Sl