Italy

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Italy!

• Created by Meredith Pollard

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• Italy is located in Southern Europe, extending
  into the Mediterranean Sea.

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Climate

• Highly diversified
• Ranges from rigid to semitropical
• Average temperature is about 52 to 66F

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Natural Resources

• Natural gas
• Petroleum
• Lignite
• Sulfur
• Pyrites

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Plants

• Trees olive, orange, lemon, palm, citron, fig,
  date, pomegranate, and almond
• Also, cotton and sugarcane
• In the south, chestnut, cypress, and oak trees
  are common

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Animals

• Marmot, chamois, and ibex in the Alps
• Wolf, fox, eagle hawk, vulture, buzzard, falcon,
  kite, and wild boar in the mountain areas
• Also, there are quail, woodcock, partridge,
  lizards, snakes (especially the viper), and
  scorpions are all around

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Population

• Consists almost entirely of native-born people
• The total population is 58,103,033 people

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Major Cities

• Rome
• Milan
• Turin
• Palermo
• Bologna
• Florence
• Catania
• Bari

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Language

• Italian 55,000,000
• German
• French
• Ladin
• Albanian
• Slovenian
• Catalan
• Croatian
• Greek

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Religion

• Roman Catholic 98
• However, only 25 attend mass regularly
• 1985, Catholicism was no longer the official
  state religion
• The law was to guarantee religious freedom to
  minorities, such as, Protestant, Muslim, and
  Jewish

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Culture

• Italy has played a central role in world culture
• Italy has contributed some of the worlds most
  admired sculpture, architecture, painting,
  literature, and music