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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Slovenia, following the declaration of independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991, succeeded the convention on 5 November 1992.
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Currently, there are three sites in Slovenia inscribed on the list and six sites on the tentative list. The first site in Slovenia to be added to the list was the Škocjan Caves, inscribed at the 10th UNESCO session in 1986. In the 2010s, two more sites were inscribed, both of them transnational entries: pile dwellings at Ig, part of the Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps transnational site, in 2011, and Idrija, as part of the transnational site Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija, in 2012. Of these three sites, Škocjan Caves is a natural site while the other two are cultural sites, as determined by the organization's selection criteria.
World Heritage Sites
In the following table, the UNESCO data includes the site's reference number, the year the site was inscribed on the World Heritage List, and the criteria it was listed under: criteria i through vi are cultural, whereas vii through x are natural.
Tentative list
In addition to the sites inscribed on the World Heritage list, member states can maintain a list of tentative sites that they may consider for nomination. Nominations for the World Heritage list are only accepted if the site was previously listed on the tentative list. As of 2016, Slovenia recorded 6 sites on its tentative list. The sites, along with the year they were included on the tentative list, are listed below. Here, "UNESCO data" refers to the year of inscription on the tentative list and the criteria it was listed under.