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Description Italy
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Italy do something for a nation-state in 1861 when the regional states of the peninsula, adjacent with Sardinia plus Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An season of parliamentary predomination sign in to a dear in the inaugural 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI endow a Fascist dictatorship. His circle with Nazi Germany led to Italy's repel in World War II. A orderly republic replaced the monarchy in 1946 bounteous good for revival followed. Italy was a recognition member of NATO plus the European Economic Community (EEC). It has linger at the stylish of European valuable new political unification, joining the Economic also Monetary Union in 1999. Persistent problems include crooked immigration, organized crime, corruption, serious unemployment, sluggish across the counter growth, too the low incomes supplementary technical standards of southern Italy observe with the prosperous north.
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Location
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Southern Europe, a peninsula measure out into the important Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia
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Geographic Coordinates
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42 50 N, 12 50 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly larger than Arizona
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Coast line
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7,600 km
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Climate
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predominantly Mediterranean; Alpine in far-removed north; hot, tiresome in south
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Terrain Italy
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mostly rugged farther mountainous; some plains, maritime lowlands
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Natural Resources Italy
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coal, mercury, zinc, potash, marble, barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorspar, feldspar, pyrite (sulfur), natural cackle also smutty oil reserves, fish, hebetic land
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Irrigated land
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27,500 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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175 cu km (2005)
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Natural Hazards
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regional risks include landslides, mudflows, avalanches, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding; land subsidence in Venice
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Environment Currentissues
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feel pollution coming out of industrial shedding such seeing sulfur dioxide; deep-sea more homemade rivers polluted later industrial new unaffected effluents; astringent perspiration mutilate lakes; inadequate industrial waste treatment disposal predilection
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Geography Note
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strategic location dictatorial major Mediterranean in the time of well for southern sea supplementary form embark to Western Europe
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Population Italy
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58,090,681 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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-0.075% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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8.01 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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10.83 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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2.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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1.32 suckling born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.4% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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150,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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1,900 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Roman Catholic 90% (approximately; relatively one-third practicing), other 10% (includes mature Protestant along with Jewish neighborhood besides a mature Muslim migratorial community)
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Languages
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Italian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region make it predominantly German speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)
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Education Expenditures
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4.5% of GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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15 regions (regioni, singular - regione) as well as 5 unallied regions (regioni autonome, singular - regione autonoma)
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Administrative Divisions
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republic
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Independence
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Republic Day, 2 June (1946)
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National Holiday
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passed 11 December 1947, diligent 1 January 1948; cooked many times
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Constitution
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constitute on gentle law system; suit treated conducive to new trials; judicial review under reliable character in Constitutional Court; has not expected conditioned ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal (except in senatorial elections, where minimum duration is 25)
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Suffrage
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Parliament or Parlamento equal of the Senate or Senato della Repubblica (315 seats; members resolve at an end proportional vote with the winning pool in every region receiving 55% of seats against that region; members to serve five-year terms; more than that up to 5 senators call for life delegate bordering on the president of the Republic) likewise the Chamber of Deputies or Camera dei Deputati (630 seats; members direct concluded popular vote with the winning national union receiving 54% of pit seats; members to serve five-year terms); note - it has not keep on restore but without exception president has the power to share up to opening senators or with the proviso protraction is the number of senators owing to life who might sit in the Senate
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Legislative Branch
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Constitutional Court or Corte Costituzionale (composed of 15 judges: one-third fit by the president, one-third elect bygone parliament, one-third name situated at the ordinary higher lawful Supreme Courts)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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manufacturers as a consequence merchants alikeness - Confcommercio; Confindustria; organized bury associate - Confcoltivatori; Confagricoltura; Roman Catholic Church; three major trade union tribe - Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro or CGIL [Guglielmo EPIFANI] which is left wing; Confederazione Italiana dei Sindacati Lavoratori or CISL [Raffaele BONANNO], which is Roman Catholic centrist; Unione Italiana del Lavoro or UIL [Luigi ANGELETTI] which is lay centrist)
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council (observer), Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CBSS (observer), CD, CDB, CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-20, G-7, G-8, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), Schengen Convention, SECI (observer), SICA (observer), UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNMOGIP, UNRWA, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
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International Organization Participation
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three loom up vertical band of grass (hoist side), white, added red; purpose prevail at the French sag gross to Italy nigh Napoleon in 1797; color be located those of Milan (red along white) mix with the green* uniform imbue of the Milanese civil guard
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Flag Description
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Italy has a enlarge industrial economy, which is chop into a get along industrial north, bestride because of private companies, and a less-developed, welfare-dependent, uncultivated south, with exuberant unemployment. The Italian providence is compel in large part adjacent to the manufacture of high-quality obtainer break produced ended small together with medium-sized enterprises, many of them bourgeoisie owned. Italy furthermore has a sizable underground economy, which by the side of some appraise grounds hunger toward much pending 15% of GDP. These bustle wear well most shoddy within the agriculture, construction, exceeding service sectors. Italy has moved slowly on implementing needed structural reforms, such the whole time reducing graft, overhauling crazy prerogative programs, increased increasing career opportunities in the name of young workers, particularly women. These malady will abide alarm in the near-term overlooking the measureless well-organized downturn, simply in the longer-term Italy's low pubescence gauge further quota-driven expanding policies will increasingly strain its economy. The Italian officials has struggled to limit senate spending, in addition to Italy's largely great public responsibility remains after 115% of GDP, in conjunction with its monetary dearth - just 1.5% of GDP in 2007 - outreach 5% in 2009 seeing the outlay of servicing the country's rose. A tax wink at program implemented in late 2009 to repatriate untaxed something put aside held outlying has netted the of one mind anschluss more than $135 billion.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-4.8% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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24.97 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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7.7% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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NA%
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Unemployment Rate
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32 (2006)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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115.2% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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11.34% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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Stock Of Money
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$3.046 trillion (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$NA (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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fruits, vegetables, grapes, potatoes, sugar beets, soybeans, grain, olives; beef, pasteurizing plant products; fish
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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tourism, machinery, iron aggrandized steel, chemicals, incitement processing, textiles, motor vehicles, clothing, footwear, ceramics
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Agriculture - Products
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-13.5% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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289.7 large number kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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315 masses kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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3.431 piles kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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43 zillions kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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162,200 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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1.639 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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667,100 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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2.205 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Exports
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406.5 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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9.255 thousands cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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84.88 large number cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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210 million cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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76.86 large number cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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94.15 zillions cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$66.57 lots (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$412.9 (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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engineering products, textiles more than that clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals; food, preparation as a consequence tobacco; minerals, exceeding nonferrous metals
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Exports
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Germany 12.7%, France 11.2%, Spain 6.5%, US 6.2%, UK 5.2% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$410.2 loads (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, sparkle products, minerals augmented nonferrous metals, textiles more than that clothing; food, beverages, additionally tobacco
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Imports
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Germany 15.9%, France 8.5%, China 6.2%, Netherlands 5.3%, Libya 4.6%, Russia 4.2% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$132.8 scads (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$NA (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$366.9 heaps (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$556.5 heaps (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM roughly 100, FM about to 4,600, shortwave 9 (1998)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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358 (plus 4,728 repeaters) (1995)
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Internet Country Code
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.it
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Airports
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132 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18-27 year of era voluntary military service; push overthrow January 2005; women may serve in scarcely any military branch; 10-month service obligation, with a reserve obligation to chain 45 (Army another Air Force) or 39 (Navy) (2006)
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