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Situated in
Mediterranean Europe, Italy has land frontiers
with France in the north-west, Switzerland and Austria in
the north and Slovenia in the north-east. The peninsula
is surrounded by the Ligurian Sea, the Sardinian Sea and
the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, the Sicilian Sea and the
Ionian Sea in the south and the Adriatic Sea in the east.
Italian is the language of the majority of the population
but there are minorities speaking German, French, Slovene
and Ladino.
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