Nova Gorica

Nova Gorica
Town
From top, left to right: Overview of Nova Gorica, Railway station with Square of Europe, Slovene-Italian border, House with Mehdi Huseynzadeh Memorial, Kostanjevica Monastery
Coat of arms
Nova Gorica Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 45°57′21″N 13°38′36″E / 45.95583°N 13.64333°E / 45.95583; 13.64333
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Slovenian Littoral
Statistical region	Gorizia
Municipality	Nova Gorica
Area [1]
• Total	3.49 km2 (1.35 sq mi)
Elevation	93.4 m (306.4 ft)
Population  (2023)[1]
• Total	13.021
• Density	3.7/km2 (9.7/sq mi)
• Trans-border urban	71.753
Postal code	5000
Vehicle registration	GO
Website	nova-gorica.si

Nova Gorica (pronounced [ˈnɔ̀ːʋa ɡɔˈɾìːtsa] ^ⓘ[2]) is a town in western Slovenia, on the border with Italy. It is the seat of the Municipality of Nova Gorica. Nova Gorica is a planned town, built according to the principles of modernist architecture after 1947, when the Paris Peace Treaty established a new border between Yugoslavia and Italy, leaving nearby Gorizia outside the borders of Yugoslavia and thus cutting off the Soča Valley, the Vipava Valley, the Gorizia Hills and the northwestern Karst Plateau from their traditional regional urban centre. Since 1948, Nova Gorica has replaced Gorizia as the principal urban center of the Gorizia region (Slovene: Goriška), as the northern part of the Slovenian Littoral has been traditionally called.^[3]

Since May 2011, Nova Gorica has been joined with Gorizia and Šempeter-Vrtojba in a common trans-border metropolitan zone, administered by a joint administration board.^[4]