Topic: Facts
Here is some information about la Repubblica Italiana (Italian Republic)
NOTE: All this information below was taken from: The World FactBook.
Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia .
58,057,477 (July 2004 est.)
Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south).
predominately Roman Catholic with mature Protestant and Jewish communities and a growing Muslim immigrant community.
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)
Rome
17 March 1861 (Kingdom of Italy proclaimed; Italy was not finally unified until 1870)
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (since 13 May 1999)
Telephones:
- main lines in use:
26.596 million (2003)
- mobile cellular:
55.918 million (2003)