Sardinie

Sardinie Sardegna (Italian, Ligurian) Sardigna (Sardinie, Sassarese) Saldigna  (Gallurese) Sardenya  (Catalan)
Autonomous region o Italy
Banner Coat airms
Anthem: Su patriottu sardu a sos feudatarios (Sardinie) "The Sardinie Patriot tae the Lairds"
Sardinia athin Italy Location o Sardinia in Europe (green an daurk grey) an Italy (green) The island o Sardinia as seen frae the International Space Station
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)
	[1]
Demonyms	Sardinian or Sard sardo, -a (it) sardu, -a (sc) sard, -a (ca)
Ceetizenship [2]
• 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/

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.

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.

1. ↑ "Statistiche demografiche ISTAT". demo.istat.it. Archived frae the original on 16 Julie 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
2. ↑ "Statistiche demografiche ISTAT". Demo.istat.it. Archived frae the original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 26 Julie 2019.
3. ↑ ^{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.
4. ↑ "Sub-national HDI – Area Database – Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org (in Inglis). Retrieved 26 Julie 2019.