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Italy
has played an
important role in
European higher
education: it is one
of the four countries
that first engaged to
create the so-called
"European Area of
Higher Education" ,
thus starting that
type of higher
education reform
which, known as
"Bologna Process" is
being implemented all
over Europe.
Today Italy ranks among the 8 most industrialized countries
in the world. Alongside some big companies, both state-owned
and private, Italy has developed a sound network of small
and medium-sized undertakings, promoted a few scientific
parks, and is investigating basic and applied research in a
great variety of fields (biology, ICT, medicine, physics,
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Country name: Italian
Republic
Area: 294,020 sq
km (113,492 sq mi)
Population: 56,778,000
Captial city: Rome
People: Italian
(includes small clusters of German-, French-, and
Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and
Greek-Italians in the south)
Language: Italian
(official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region
are predominantly German speaking), French (small
French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene
(Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)
Religion: predominately
Roman Catholic with mature Protestant and Jewish
communities and a growing Muslim immigrant community
Major industries:
tourism, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals, food
processing, textiles, motor vehicles, clothing, footwear,
ceramics
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