Sardinie
Sardinie (Italian: Sardegna, Sardinian: Sardigna) is the seicont-lairgest island in the Mediterranean Sea (efter Sicily an afore Cyprus). It is an autonomous region o Italy, an the nearest land masses are (clockwise frae north) the French island o Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisie an the Spaingie Balearic Islands.
Sardinie | |
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 Banner  Coat airms | |
| Anthem: Su patriottu sardu a sos feudatarios (Sardinie) "The Sardinie Patriot tae the Lairds" | |
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| Kintra | Italy |
| Caipital | Cagliari |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Consiglio Regionale |
| • Preses | Christian Solinas (Psd'Az) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 24,090 km2 (9,300 sq mi) |
| Population (2017) | |
| • Total | 1,651,793 |
| • Density | 69/km2 (180/sq mi) |
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| Demonyms | Sardinian or Sard sardo, -a (it) sardu, -a (sc) sard, -a (ca) |
| Ceetizenship | |
| • Italian | 97% |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | IT-88 |
| GDP (nominal) | €34.0 billion (2017)[3] |
| GDP per caipita | €20,600 (2017)[3] |
| HDI (2017) | 0.856[4] vera heich · 16t o 21 |
| NUTS Region | ITG |
| Website | http://www.regione.sardegna.it/ |
The name Sardinie is frae the pre-Roman noun sard, romanised as sardus (feminine sarda); that the name haed a releegious connotation is suggestit frae its uise an aa as the adjective for the auncient Sardinie meethological hero-god Sardus Pater "Sardinie Faither" (misunnerstuid bi mony modren Sardinies/Italians as being "Faither Sardus"), as well as being the stem o the adjective "sardonic". Sardinie wis cawed Ichnusa (the Laitinised form o the Greek Hyknousa), Sandalion, Sardinia an Sardo bi the auncient Greeks an the Romans.
- ↑ "Statistiche demografiche ISTAT". demo.istat.it. Archived frae the original on 16 Julie 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
- ↑ "Statistiche demografiche ISTAT". Demo.istat.it. Archived frae the original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 26 Julie 2019.
- ↑ a b "Regional GDP per capita ranged from 31% to 626% of the EU average in 2017" (Press release). ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ↑ "Sub-national HDI – Area Database – Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org (in Inglis). Retrieved 26 Julie 2019.