{"id":84,"date":"2019-05-11T17:52:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T14:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siteblog.tuc.gr\/aathanasopoulou\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2019-05-11T18:32:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T15:32:49","slug":"islands","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/siteblog.tuc.gr\/aathanasopoulou\/islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Insular Italy<\/b>\u00a0(Italian<\/a>:\u00a0Italia insulare<\/b><\/i>\u00a0or just\u00a0Isole<\/b><\/a><\/i>) is one of the five official statistical regions of\u00a0Italy<\/a>\u00a0used by the\u00a0National Institute of Statistics<\/a>\u00a0(ISTAT), a\u00a0first level NUTS region<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0European Parliament constituency<\/a>. Insular Italy encompasses two of the\u00a0country’s 20 regions<\/a>:\u00a0Sardinia<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Sicily<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Geography<\/span><\/h2>\n

Insular Italy occupies one-sixth of the national territory in surface area. Territorially, both Sicily and Sardinia include several minor islands and\u00a0archipelagoes<\/a>\u00a0administratively dependent on the mother islands.<\/p>\n

Sicily is the largest island in the\u00a0Mediterranean<\/a>\u00a0(25,708\u00a0km2<\/sup>) and one of the largest of\u00a0Europe<\/a>, while Sardinia is only slightly less extensive (24,090\u00a0km2<\/sup>). The lowlands are generally limited in the geographic region and generally appear as narrow coastal belts. The only exceptions are the\u00a0Campidano<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Nurra<\/a>\u00a0in Sardinia and the\u00a0Plain of Catania<\/a>\u00a0in Sicily that extend 1200\u00a0km2<\/sup>\u00a0and 430\u00a0km2<\/sup>respectively. The rest of the area is prevalently hilly, with hills occupying 70% of the territory. Sicily is home to\u00a0Mount Etna<\/a>, Italy’s highest non-Alpine<\/a>\u00a0peak and Europe’s largest active volcano. Sardinia is home to the\u00a0Gennargentu<\/a>\u00a0mountain range.<\/p>\n

Demographics<\/span><\/h2>\n

The population of Insular Italy totals combined over 6.7 million residents. Insular Italy has a population density of less than half the national average mainly because of the scarce population of\u00a0Sardinia<\/a>, one of the least densely populated regions of Italy and Europe.\u00a0Sicily<\/a>, on the other hand, has in fact a population density five times higher than Sardinia.<\/p>\n

Their combined populations total just one-tenth of the national population making Insular Italy the least populated macro-region of the country.<\/p>\n

Socio-economic situation<\/span><\/h2>\n

The\u00a0unemployment rate<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Sicily<\/a>\u00a0is the highest in the country at 11.9%, while in\u00a0Sardinia<\/a>\u00a0between 2006-07 it dropped for the first time below 10%, reaching 8.6%, the lowest of all the\u00a0Mezzogiorno<\/a>\u00a0regions, excluding\u00a0Molise<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Abruzzo<\/a>. The low level of entrepreneurship in Sicily is tied to the local\u00a0organized criminal activity<\/a>, while in Sardinia it results from the rather expensive operating expenses (electricity, transportation, etc.) being 20-50% higher than other regions due to its peripheral location from the\u00a0Italian mainland<\/a>\u00a0and the lack of a proper territorial continuity (continuit\u00e0 territoriale<\/i>): such condition has been reduced in Sardinia with the development of\u00a0information technologies<\/a>, like\u00a0Tiscali<\/a>,\u00a0low-cost carrier<\/a>, like\u00a0Ryanair<\/a>, and some laws regarding fares and routes between the islands and mainland Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Insular Italy\u00a0(Italian:\u00a0Italia insulare\u00a0or just\u00a0Isole) is one of the five official statistical regions of\u00a0Italy\u00a0used by the\u00a0National Institute of Statistics\u00a0(ISTAT), a\u00a0first level NUTS region\u00a0and a\u00a0European Parliament constituency. Insular Italy encompasses two of the\u00a0country’s 20 regions:\u00a0Sardinia\u00a0and\u00a0Sicily. Geography Insular Italy occupies one-sixth of the national territory in surface area. Territorially, both Sicily and Sardinia include several minor islands and\u00a0archipelagoes\u00a0administratively … \u03a3\u03c5\u03bd\u03ad\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1 \u03b1\u03bd\u03ac\u03b3\u03bd\u03c9\u03c3\u03b7\u03c2 Islands<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siteblog.tuc.gr\/aathanasopoulou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siteblog.tuc.gr\/aathanasopoulou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siteblog.tuc.gr\/aathanasopoulou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siteblog.tuc.gr\/aathanasopoulou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siteblog.tuc.gr\/aathanasopoulou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/siteblog.tuc.gr\/aathanasopoulou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/siteblog.tuc.gr\/aathanasopoulou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siteblog.tuc.gr\/aathanasopoulou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}