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Capital - Rome
Language - Italian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)
Population - 58,147,733 (July 2007 est.)
Geography - total: 301,230 sq km
Area-comparative - slightly larger than Arizona
Climate - predominantly Mediterranean; Alpine in far north; hot, dry in south
Religion - Roman Catholic 90% (approximately; about one-third regularly attend services), other 10% (includes mature Protestant and Jewish communities and a growing Muslim immigrant community)
Ethnic Groups - Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south)
Life expectations - total population: 79.94 years
male: 77.01 years
female: 83.07 years (2007 est.)
Literacy - definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98.6%
male: 99%
female: 98.3% (2003 est.)
Government type - republic
Exports - Oil Exports: 456,600 bbl/day (2001)
Natural Gas Exports : 396 million cu m (2004 est.)
$450.1 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Export Commodities - engineering products, textiles and clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals; food, beverages and tobacco; minerals, and nonferrous metals
GDP per capita - $29,700 (2006 est.)
Natural Ressources - coal, mercury, zinc, potash, marble, barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorspar, feldspar, pyrite (sulfur), natural gas and crude oil reserves, fish, arable land
Natural Hazards - regional risks include landslides, mudflows, avalanches, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding; land subsidence in Venice
