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Detailed Analysis for Year: 2010
Full Dataset: from 1993 to 2008
Dataset updated: 1st August 2011
Data Source: CIA Factbook
National or Regional Currency: Euro
Currency Symbol: EUR
Location: Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia
Geographic coordinates: 42 50 N, 12 50 E
Map references: Europe
Area: total: 301,340 sq km land: 294,140 sq km water: 7,200 sq km note: includes Sardinia and Sicily
Area - comparative: slightly larger than Arizona
Terrain: mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains, coastal lowlands
Elevation extremes: lowest point: Mediterranean Sea 0 m highest point: Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco) de Courmayeur 4,748 m (a secondary peak of Mont Blanc)
Land boundaries: total: 1,899.2 km border countries: Austria 430 km, France 488 km, Holy See (Vatican City) 3.2 km, San Marino 39 km, Slovenia 199 km, Switzerland 740 km
Coastline: 7,600 km
Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Geography - note: strategic location dominating central Mediterranean as well as southern sea and air approaches to Western Europe