Key facts
- Country
- Slovenia
- Mayor
- Jože Sodja ( Independent )
- Total
- 333.7 km (128.8 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 585 m (1,919 ft)
- Density
- 16/km (41/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- KR
- Website
- bohinj.si
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Slovenia
- Country
- Slovenia
- Located in
- Slovenia
- Capital
- Bohinjska Bistrica
- Population
- 5145
- Area
- 333.7
- Elevation
- 585
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Municipality of Gorje
- Official website
- www.bohinj.si
- Image
- CerkevBitnje-Bohinj.jpg
- Licence plate code
- KR
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- Commons category
- Municipality of Bohinj
- postal code
- 4265
- different from
- Bohinj
- twinned administrative body
- Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden
- topic has template
- Template:Bohinj
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Upper Carniola Statistical Region
- native label
- Občina Bohinj
- male population
- 2706
- female population
- 2654
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Encyclopedic overview
The Municipality of Bohinj (Slovene: Občina Bohinj) is a municipality in the Upper Carniola region of northwest Slovenia. Its seat is the settlement of Bohinjska Bistrica. The municipality had 5,256 people in 2023. As of July 2023, the mean age of people was 46.0 years. In the school year 2023/24 elementary schools in Bohinj were attended by about 440 pupils, while various upper secondary schools were attended by about 200 pupils. For every 179 people aged 65 or older, 100 people were aged 0-14. However, the number of live births was lower than the number of deaths, which means that natural increase per 1,000 population in the municipality was negative (-1.5 in Bohinj).
Settlements
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bohinj Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.