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2. Today

Today, Italy is a highly developed country with the 7th highest GDP in 2006, a member of the G8 and a founding member of what is now the European Union, having signed the Treaty of Rome in 1957.

Italy is subdivided into 20 regions:

  1. Abruzzo (with capital L'Aquila)
  2. Basilicata (Potenza)
  3. Calabria (Catanzaro)
  4. Campania (Naples, Napoli)
  5. Emilia-Romagna (Bologna)
  6. Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Trieste)
  7. Latium, Lazio (Rome, Roma)
  8. Liguria (Genoa, Genova)
  9. Lombardy, Lombardia (Milan, Milano)
  10. Marches, Marche (Ancona)
  11. Molise (Campobasso)
  12. Piedmont, Piemonte (Turin, Torino)
  13. Apulia, Puglia (Bari)
  14. Sardinia, Sardegna (Cagliari)
  15. Aosta Valley, Valle d'Aosta / Vallée d'Aoste (Aosta, Aoste)
  16. Tuscany, Toscana (Florence, Firenze)
  17. Trentino-South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige / Trentino-Südtirol (Trento, Bolzano-Bozen)
  18. Umbria (Perugia)
  19. Sicily, Sicilia (Palermo)
  20. Veneto (Venice, Venezia)

Population: 58,462,375 (December 2004)

Inhabitants of Italy are referred to as Italians

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