[5] Gornji Dolič is a sprawling settlement in hilly terrain in the western part of the Dolič Lowland (Slovene: Doliško podolje) between the Pohorje Mountains to the north and the Paka Mount Kozjak (Slovene: Paški Kozjak) to the south.

[2] It lies along the main road from Slovenj Gradec to Vitanje and includes the hamlets and isolated farms of Cvetržnik, Globočnik, Golčman, Grmič, Hof, Interbožnik, Pantner, Potočnik, Pušnik, and Vodovšek.

The name dates from the time before what is now the main road was built through the Bad Hole Gorge (Slovene: Huda lukjna).

[2] The village was known as Zgornji Dolič in Slovene until the Second World War,[2] and it was named Oberdollitsch in German in the past.

On 1 December 1941 saboteurs dynamited the railroad bridge between Paka pri Velenju and the Bad Hole Gorge (Slovene: Huda luknja).

Partisan forces dynamited the railway on 31 September 1942, burned the railway station in the settlement on 27 October 1942, attacked and destroyed the railway station again at the end of March 1944, derailed a train into the Huda Luknja Gorge on 10 April 1944, sent a burning train towards Velenje on 25 April 1944 and burned the bus station the same day, burned another train on 26 April 1944, attached a German post in the Huda Luknja Gorge on 3 June 1944, and destroyed the railroad bridge on 18 June 1944 and dynamited the railroad tunnel the same day.

[14][15] The local parish church is dedicated to Saint Florian and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor.