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Sardinia
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Autonomous Region of Sardinia | |
Anthem: "Su patriotu sardu a sos feudatarios" (Sardinian) (English: "The Sardinian Patriot to the Lords") | |
Coordinates: 40°N 9°E / 40°N 9°E | |
Country | Italy |
Capital | Cagliari |
Government | |
• Type | Consiglio Regionale |
• President | Alessandra Todde (M5S) |
Area | |
• Total | 24,090 km2 (9,300 sq mi) |
Population (2020) | |
• Total | 1,628,384 |
• Density | 68/km2 (180/sq mi) |
• Languages | Italian and Sardinian |
• Minority languages | |
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Demonyms | |
Citizenship | |
• Italian | 97% |
GDP | |
• Total | €35.032 billion (2021) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
ISO 3166 code | IT-88 |
HDI (2021) | 0.871[4] very high · 16th of 21 |
NUTS Region | ITG |
Website | www |
Sardinia (/sɑːrˈdɪniə/ sar-DIN-ee-ə; Italian: Sardegna [sarˈdeɲɲa]; Sardinian: Sardigna [saɾˈdiɲːa])[a][b] is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and 16.45 km[5] south of the French island of Corsica.
It is one of the five Italian regions with some degree of domestic autonomy being granted by a special statute.[6] Its official name, Autonomous Region of Sardinia, is bilingual in Italian and Sardinian: Regione Autonoma della Sardegna / Regione Autònoma de Sardigna.[7] It is divided into four provinces and a metropolitan city. The capital of the region of Sardinia — and its largest city — is Cagliari.
Sardinia's indigenous language and Algherese Catalan are referred to by both the regional and national law as two of Italy's twelve officially recognized linguistic minorities,[8] albeit gravely endangered, while the regional law provides some measures to recognize and protect the aforementioned as well as the island's other minority languages (the Corsican-influenced Sassarese and Gallurese, and finally Tabarchino Ligurian).[9][10]
Owing to the variety of Sardinia's ecosystems, which include mountains,[11] woods, plains, stretches of largely uninhabited territory, streams, rocky coasts, and long sandy beaches,[12] Sardinia has been metaphorically described as a micro-continent.[13] In the modern era, many travelers and writers have extolled the beauty of its long-untouched landscapes, which retain vestiges of the Nuragic civilization.[14]
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