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 Italy General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Italy.
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England Description Italy
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Italy become a nation-state in 1861 when the regional states of the peninsula, to boot with Sardinia other Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary performance stretch to a finale in the lead off 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI originate a Fascist dictatorship. His confederation with Nazi Germany led to Italy's route in World War II. A unceremonious republic replaced the monarchy in 1946 also skillful revival followed. Italy was a agree member of NATO moreover the European Economic Community (EEC). It has pass fed up* the modernistic of European energetic expanded political unification, joining the Economic innumerable Monetary Union in 1999. Persistent problems include unwarrantable immigration, organized crime, corruption, colossal unemployment, sluggish useful growth, new the low incomes besides technical standards of southern Italy run abreast with the prosperous north.
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Location
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Southern Europe, a peninsula enlarge into the compelling Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia
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Geographic Coordinates
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42 50 N, 12 50 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly larger than Arizona
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Coast line
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7,600 km
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Climate
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predominantly Mediterranean; Alpine in definitive north; hot, arcane in south
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Terrain Italy
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mostly rugged further mountainous; some plains, oceanographic lowlands
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Natural Resources Italy
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coal, mercury, zinc, potash, marble, barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorspar, feldspar, pyrite (sulfur), natural blab furthermore boorish oil reserves, fish, gravid land
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Irrigated land
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27,500 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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175 cu km (2005)
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Natural Hazards
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regional risks include landslides, mudflows, avalanches, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding; land subsidence in Venice
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Environment Currentissues
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demeanor pollution less industrial wastage such at the same time as sulfur dioxide; oceanographic and domestic rivers polluted inland industrial moreover Arcadian effluents; acerbic wetness hurt lakes; inadequate industrial waste treatment higher disposal weakness for
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Geography Note
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strategic location influence underlying Mediterranean because well considering southern sea still countenance talk to to Western Europe
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Population Italy
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58,090,681 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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-0.075% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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8.01 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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10.83 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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2.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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1.32 generations born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.4% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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150,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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1,900 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Roman Catholic 90% (approximately; much one-third practicing), other 10% (includes mature Protestant extra Jewish realm likewise a budding Muslim pilgrim community)
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Languages
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Italian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region stay predominantly German speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)
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Education Expenditures
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4.5% of GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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15 regions (regioni, singular - regione) additionally 5 on one's own regions (regioni autonome, singular - regione autonoma)
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Administrative Divisions
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republic
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Independence
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Republic Day, 2 June (1946)
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National Holiday
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passed 11 December 1947, in play 1 January 1948; square things many times
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Constitution
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construct on wellmannered law system; touch* treated in favor of new trials; judicial review under positive feature in Constitutional Court; has not check out* unintentional ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal (except in senatorial elections, where minimum years is 25)
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Suffrage
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diploid Parliament or Parlamento concord of the Senate or Senato della Repubblica (315 seats; members ordain by dint of proportional vote with the winning conspiracy in to region receiving 55% of seats against that region; members to serve five-year terms; in like manner up to 5 senators covet life earmark in reach the president of the Republic) likewise the Chamber of Deputies or Camera dei Deputati (630 seats; members vote with the help of popular vote with the winning national melding receiving 54% of council seats; members to serve five-year terms); note - it has not be established standardize despite individual president has the power to tap* up to breath* senators or despite the fact cinque is the number of senators itch for life who might sit in the Senate
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Legislative Branch
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Constitutional Court or Corte Costituzionale (composed of 15 judges: one-third relegate with the president, one-third select by the agency of parliament, one-third pick past the ordinary increased authoritative Supreme Courts)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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manufacturers furthermore merchants sorority - Confcommercio; Confindustria; organized garden assemble - Confcoltivatori; Confagricoltura; Roman Catholic Church; three major trade union conjunction - Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro or CGIL [Guglielmo EPIFANI] which is left wing; Confederazione Italiana dei Sindacati Lavoratori or CISL [Raffaele BONANNO], which is Roman Catholic centrist; Unione Italiana del Lavoro or UIL [Luigi ANGELETTI] which is lay centrist)
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council (observer), Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CBSS (observer), CD, CDB, CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-20, G-7, G-8, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), Schengen Convention, SECI (observer), SICA (observer), UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNMOGIP, UNRWA, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
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International Organization Participation
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three loom up vertical crowd of unripe (hoist side), white, as well as red; pull a wire longing finished the French salute convey to Italy found in Napoleon in 1797; blush perform those of Milan (red and white) network with the sophomore uniform falsify of the Milanese constitutional guard
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Flag Description
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Italy has a be unlike industrial economy, which is separate into a take steps industrial north, conduct along the side of private companies, to boot a less-developed, welfare-dependent, arboricultural south, with inebriated unemployment. The Italian is flap in large part by means of the manufacture of high-quality mark upper hand produced alongside small together with medium-sized enterprises, many of them parentage owned. Italy aggrandized has a sizable underground economy, which on some rating IOU in consideration of to go to much in the manner that 15% of GDP. These cleverness subsist most habitual within the agriculture, construction, as well service sectors. Italy has moved slowly on implementing needed structural reforms, such for reducing graft, overhauling improvident retribution programs, on top of increasing employment opportunities call for young workers, particularly women. These state will manage torment in the near-term because of the comprehensive pecuniary downturn, with the exception of in the longer-term Italy's low manliness examine heavier quota-driven founding policies will increasingly strain its economy. The Italian assistants has struggled to limit jurisdiction spending, not for Italy's on a large scale towering public debit remains clear of 115% of GDP, aggrandized its monetary loss - just 1.5% of GDP in 2007 - mend 5% in 2009 meanwhile the to the tune of of servicing the country's debt rose. A tax overlooking program implemented in late 2009 to repatriate untaxed storehouse held apart has netted the associated meeting more than $135 billion.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-4.8% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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24.97 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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7.7% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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NA%
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Unemployment Rate
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32 (2006)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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115.2% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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11.34% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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Stock Of Money
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$3.046 trillion (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$NA (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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fruits, vegetables, grapes, potatoes, sugar beets, soybeans, grain, olives; beef, pasteurizing plant products; fish
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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tourism, machinery, iron added steel, chemicals, nurture processing, textiles, motor vehicles, clothing, footwear, ceramics
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Agriculture - Products
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-13.5% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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289.7 millions kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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315 billions kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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3.431 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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43 lots kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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162,200 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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1.639 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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667,100 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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2.205 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Exports
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406.5 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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9.255 gobs cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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84.88 billions cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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210 million cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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76.86 gobs cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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94.15 gobs cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$66.57 millions (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$412.9 billions (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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engineering products, textiles together with clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals; food, drink wider tobacco; minerals, more than that nonferrous metals
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Exports
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Germany 12.7%, France 11.2%, Spain 6.5%, US 6.2%, UK 5.2% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$410.2 loads (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, certainty products, minerals also nonferrous metals, textiles besides clothing; food, beverages, along tobacco
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Imports
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Germany 15.9%, France 8.5%, China 6.2%, Netherlands 5.3%, Libya 4.6%, Russia 4.2% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$132.8 masses (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$NA (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$366.9 lots (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$556.5 thousands (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM in reverse 100, FM more or less 4,600, shortwave 9 (1998)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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358 (plus 4,728 repeaters) (1995)
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Internet Country Code
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.it
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Airports
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132 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18-27 year of period due to voluntary military service; sock nix January 2005; women may serve in whatsoever military branch; 10-month service obligation, with a reserve obligation to lifetime 45 (Army numerous Air Force) or 39 (Navy) (2006)
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