Location: Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia.
Capital City: Rome
Population: 58,133,509 (July 2006 est.)
Gross domestic production GDP: 0.1% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $29,200 (2005 est.)
GDP composition by: |
agriculture 2.1%
Industry 29.1%
Service 68.8% (2005 est.)
Surface area |
Land use
Total: 301,230 sq km
arable land: 26.41%
Land: 294,020 sq km
permanent crops: 9.09%
Water: 7,210 sq km
other: 64.5% (2005)
(note: surface area incl Sardinia and
Sicily)
Information source: CIA World Factbook