Sociogeographic regionalization and reform of territorial administration in the Republic of Slovenia

The paper presents the aims of the future administrative-political reform in the Republic of Slovenia. It should introduce smaller and autonomous communes. Comparison between the present administrative-political regionalization of Slovenia and the network of central settlements is also presented, as well as the starting-points for the organization of new communes. The author also discusses the dilemma about the possible introduction of districts or regions as administrative-political units of medium rank, and also the problems of how to regionalize the heterogeneous Slovene territory to fit the above mentioned ideas