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__Italy:__ 60,231,214 (2009 estimate) Roman Catholics are the religions people.
 * **Major Government**
 * **The government in Italy is** Republic.
 * ===population===
 * **Major Religions**
 * **Languages Spoken**
 * Italian is the language spoken.**
 * **Current leader or president** Giorgio NAPOLITANO is the president. This is his fourth time getting elected.[[image:http://www.arcaini.com/ITALY/ItalyFacts/GiorgioNapolitano.jpg width="154" height="210"]]
 * **Brief history of the country including any important people and major wars**
 * **Italy was on the side with the Nazi's. Italy, Sardinia and Sicily, can together by king Victor EMMANUEL II. Benito MUSSOLINI found a fastcist dictatorship.** Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community .Problems in Italy are illegal immigration, organized crime, corruption, high unemployment, sluggish economic growth, and the low incomes and technical standards of southern Italy compared with the prosperous northern. Victor Emmanuel II, the king of Piedmont and Sardinia were some of the wars against.
 * **Currency**

Euro
Italy's holidays are christmas, easter, four sundays of advent, four sundays of lent, holy days of obligation, Anniversary of the Republic and Liberation day. **Also celebrating the defeat of the germany army in Italy.**Climate
 * ===**Holidays**===
 * Climate in the spring, summer, and fall is sunnyand the winter is cloudy.**

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 * **Geography**
 * **Italy was on the side with the Nazi's. Italy, Sardinia and Sicily, can together by king Victor EMMANUEL II. Benito MUSSOLINI found a fastcist dictatorship.** . **Major Resources**
 * **Major tourist attractions and or historical sights**
 * **Italy is the fourth most-visited country in the world. it has both cultural and natural attratcions. from all the tourist Italy got 42 billion USD's in 2008. In the summer Italy gets a lot of tourist.( They mostly come in the summer). There is an estimated of 95,000 churches and 20,000 cities or towns with cultral. the most important muesums are Uffizi Gallery in Florence and the Vatican Museum. Other attractions are sculpted fountais of** **Rome, the squares and canals of Venice, and the well preserved hilltop town of Siena.**
 * **Median Family Income**.273 trillion makes it the sixth richest country in the world.
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