Need assistance with writing a test paper
ITALY
GEOGRAPHY
Area
Total: 301,340 sq km
Land: 294,140 sq km
Water: 7,200 sq km
Climate
predominantly Mediterranean; alpine in far
north; hot, dry in south
Natural Resources
coal, antimony, mercury, zinc, potash, marble,
barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorspar, feldspar,
pyrite (sulfur), natural gas and crude oil
reserves, fish, arable land
GOVERNMENT
Chief of State
President Sergio MATTARELLA
Head of Government
Prime Minister Giuseppe CONTE
Government Type
parliamentary republic
Capital
Rome
Legislature
bicameral Parliament or Parlamento consists
of the Senate or Senato della Repubblica (321
seats) and the Chamber of Deputies or
Camera dei Deputati (630 seats)
Judiciary
Supreme Court of Cassation or Corte Suprema
di Cassazione (consists of the first president
(chief justice), deputy president, 54 justices
presiding over 6 civil and 7 criminal divisions,
and 288 judges)
Ambassador to US
Ambassador Armando VARRICCHIO
US Ambassador
Ambassador Lewis EISENBERG
PEOPLE & SOCIETY
Population
62.4 million (July 2020 est.)
Population Growth
0.11% (2020 est.) Ethnicity
Italian (small clusters of
German-, French-, and
Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-
Italians in the south)
Language
Italian (official), German, French, Slovene
Religion Christian 83.3% (overwhelmingly Roman Catholic with very small
groups of Jehovah's Witnesses and Protestants), Muslim 3.7%,
unaffiliated 12.4%, other 0.6%
Urbanization
urban population: 71% of total population (2020)
rate of urbanization: 0.29% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)
Literacy
99.2% (2018)
ECONOMY
Economic Overview
developed industrial north manufactures high-quality consumer
goods; less-developed agricultural south with high unemployment
and underdevelopment; challenged by exceptionally high public
debt, dissent on eurozone membership, a sluggish judicial system,
and a weak banking sector
GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
$2.317 trillion (2017 est.)
GDP per capita (Purchasing Power Parity)
$38,200 (2017 est.)
Exports
$496.3 billion (2017 est.)
partners: Germany 12.5%, France 10.3%, US 9%, Spain 5.2%,
UK 5.2%, Switzerland 4.6% (2017)
Imports
$432.9 billion (2017 est.)
partners: Germany 16.3%, France 8.8%, China 7.1%,
Netherlands 5.6%, Spain 5.3%, Belgium 4.5% (2017)
as of April 2020