Vinica (pronounced [ˈʋiːnitsa]; German: Weinitz,[2] Gottscheerish: Bainits[3]) is a village on the left bank of the Kolpa River in the Municipality of Črnomelj in the White Carniola area of southeastern Slovenia, right on the border with Croatia.

[4] The local parish church is dedicated to the Holy Cross (Slovene: sveti Križ) and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto.

[5] Vinica was the birthplace of the Slovene poet, translator, and playwright Oton Župančič.

The house in which he was born in 1878 burned down in a fire in 1888, but in 1951 a small museum to the poet was set up in the building that replaced it.

The upper floor of the museum is dedicated to important people from White Carniola.