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Border tripoint between Italy, Slovenia and Austria, at an altitude of 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) Border tripoint between Austria, Hungary, and Slovenia. The Austrian–Slovenian border is a 330-kilometre (210 mi) [1] land border between the Republic of Austria and the Republic of Slovenia.
The Karawanks Tunnel (German: Karawankentunnel, Slovene: Predor Karavanke or Karavanški predor) is a motorway tunnel crossing the Alpine Karawanks mountain range between Austria and Slovenia, with a total length of 7,864 m (4.886 mi; 25,801 ft), 8,019 m (4.983 mi; 26,309 ft) enclosure between the portals. Its construction began in 1986 and it ...
After World War II the Karawanks remained the border between Austria and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and finally the independent Slovenia from 1991. Since the entry of Slovenia to the Schengen Area in 2007, a free movement of people and goods across the Karawanks has been allowed, and the two countries started to aim for an ...
Austria–Slovenia border crossings (1 C, 14 P) K. Karawanks (23 P) Pages in category "Austria–Slovenia border" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 ...
This line, the Karawanken Railway, was built over and through the Karawanks, Europe's longest (120 km/70 mi) mountain range; the route presently crosses the border between Austria and Slovenia. A key feature of the railway was the Karawanks Tunnel. Its construction was particularly challenging due to the local geology being particularly unstable.
Slovenia is situated at the crossroads of central and southeast Europe, touching the Alps and bordering the Adriatic Sea.The Alps—including the Julian Alps, the Kamnik–Savinja Alps and the Karawank chain, as well as the Pohorje massif—dominate northern Slovenia along its long border to Austria.
The Wurzen Pass (German: Wurzenpass, Slovene: Korensko sedlo) is a mountain pass in a col of the Karawanks mountain range in the Southern Limestone Alps, on the border between Radendorf in the Austrian state of Carinthia and Kranjska Gora in Slovenia. It is named after the nearby village of Podkoren (Wurzen).
Slovenia, [a] officially the Republic of Slovenia, [b] is a country in Central Europe. [13] [14] It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short coastline within the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, which is part of the Mediterranean sea. [15]