Population

Inhabitants: 58 million in 1997
Population density: 190 inhabitants per square kilometre
Capital: Rome (3 million inhabitants)
Largest city: Milan with 4 million inhabitants - 1,300,000 are foreigners mainly from the Balkans and North Africa
Principal university cities: Rome, Turin, Naples, Milan, Bologne and Bari.
Language: Italian
Student population: 1.6 million
Foreign students: 30,000 of which 15,000 come from the EEC (mainly Greece). The others come from Africa and the Middle East.