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<text id=93CT0686>
<title>
Italy--Geography
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Italy
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: Southern Europe, a peninsula in the central Mediterranean
Sea
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 301,230 km2</l>
<l> land area: 294,020 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: slightly larger than Arizona</l>
</list>
<p>note: includes Sardinia and Sicily
</p>
<p>Land boundaries: total 1,899.2 km, Austria 430 km, France 488 km,
Holy See (Vatican City) 3.2 km, San Marino 39 km, Slovenia 199 km,
Switzerland 740 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 4,996 km
</p>
<list>
<l>Maritime claims:</l>
<l> continental shelf: 200 m depth or to depth of
exploitation</l>
<l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
</list>
<p>International disputes: small vocal minority in northern Italy
seeks the return of parts of southwestern Slovenia
</p>
<p>Climate: predominantly Mediterranean; Alpine in far north; hot, dry
in south
</p>
<p>Terrain: mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains, coastal
lowlands
</p>
<p>Natural resources: mercury, potash, marble, sulfur, dwindling
natural gas and crude oil reserves, fish, coal
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: 32%</l>
<l> permanent crops: 10%</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: 17%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: 22%</l>
<l> other: 19%</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: 31,000 km2 (1989 est.)
</p>
<p>Environment: regional risks include landslides, mudflows,
snowslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding, pollution;
land sinkage in Venice
</p>
<p>Note: strategic location dominating central Mediterranean as well
as southern sea and air approaches to Western Europe
</p></body></article></text>