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Brief Overview of this Country
Location: Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia |
| Population: 57,634,327 (July 2000 est.) - Capital: Rome |
| Ethnics Groups: Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south) |
| Languages: talian (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) |
Religions: Predominately Roman Catholic with mature Protestant and Jewish communities and a growing Muslim immigrant community |
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