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But throughout the world, Italian is the fifth most taught foreign language, after English, French, German, and Spanish. [61] In the European Union statistics, Italian is spoken as a native language by 13% of the EU population, or 65 million people, [62] mainly in Italy. In the EU, it is spoken as a second language by 3% of the EU population ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Italy: 35 12 47 0.66 82,319,110 1,870,889 100,000
Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino and is spoken fluently by the majority of the countries' populations. Italian is the third most spoken language in Switzerland (after German and French; see Swiss Italian), although its use there has moderately declined since the 1970s. [46]
Following the defeat of Italy in World War II and the Paris Treaties of 1947, Istria, Kvarner and most of Julian March, with the cities of Pola, Fiume and Zara, passed from Italy to Yugoslavia, causing the Istrian-Dalmatian exodus, which led to the emigration of between 230,000 and 350,000 of local ethnic Italians (Istrian Italians and ...
Italy is the most awarded country at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, with 14 awards won, 3 Special Awards and 28 nominations. [238] As of 2016, Italian films have also won 12 Palmes d'Or (the second-most of any country), [239] 11 Golden Lions [240] and 7 Golden Bears. [241]
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, ... Italy: 59,619,115: 59,499,453: −0.20%: Europe: Southern Europe
Italy is the world's largest wine producer, [278] and a leading producer of olive oil, fruits (apples, olives, grapes, oranges, lemons, pears, apricots, hazelnuts, peaches, cherries, plums, strawberries, and kiwifruits), and vegetables (especially artichokes and tomatoes). The most famous Italian wines are the Tuscan Chianti and the Piedmontese ...
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes unrecognized but de facto independent countries. The figures in the table ...