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Sicily

Island in the Mediterranean, region of Italy

Cityautonomous region with special statute cultural regionQ1460

Country: Italy
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1.Stated in archINFORMRetrieved 2018-08-06
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Located in: Italy(since 1946)
, Kingdom of Italy(until 1946)
Population: 4,983,478(2019)
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Sources
1.Stated in Italian National Institute of Statistics
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Area: 25,711 km²
Elevation: 3,340 m
Head of government: Renato Schifani(since 2022)
, Nello Musumeci(2017–2022)
, Rosario Crocetta(2012–2017)
+2 more
Founded: May 15, 1946
Time zone: UTC+01:00
, UTC+02:00

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Sicily, officially the Sicilian Region, is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea and one of the twenty regions of Italy, situated south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe. With over 4.7 million inhabitants, including 1.2 million in and around the capital city of Palermo, it is both the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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171 statements · 14% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Capital: Palermo
Flag: flag of Sicily
Contains the administrative territorial entity: Province of Agrigento
Province of Caltanissetta
Province of Catania
Province of Enna
Province of Messina
Province of Palermo
Province of Ragusa
Province of Syracuse
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Province of Trapani
Shares border with: none
Legislative body: Sicilian Regional Assembly
Demonym: siciliano applies to part: masculine, masculine singular
siciliana applies to part: feminine, feminine singular
sicilianu applies to part: masculine
siciliana applies to part: feminine
siciliani applies to part: plural
siciliani applies to part: masculine plural
siciliane applies to part: feminine plural
Siciliano
Geography of topic: geography of Sicily
Native label: Sicilia
Sicìlia
Driving side: right
Highest point: Mount Etna
Office held by the head of government: president of Sicily
Executive body: Government of Sicily
Category for people buried here: Category:Burials in Sicily
Owner of: Regional Archaeological Museum Antonino Salinas
Greek Theatre of Syracuse
Language used: Sicilian
Economy of topic: economy of Sicily
Different from: Isles of Scilly
OpenStreetMap zoom level: 7
Coextensive with: Q48808392
Geoshape: Data:Italy/Region/Sicily.map
Coordinates of northernmost point: 38.8177°N, 15.2516°E
Coordinates of southernmost point: 35.4930°N, 12.6058°E
Coordinates of easternmost point: 38.2678°N, 15.6531°E
Coordinates of westernmost point: 36.8163°N, 11.9259°E
Official name: -

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96 identifiers linking Sicily across the web's reference databases

37.6000, 14.0167OpenStreetMap ↗

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