Corsica
Corsica
- State
- France
- Area
- 8.680 km2
- Population
- 316.250 inhabitants (2014)
- Languages
- Corsican, French
- Official languages French
- Native language speakers
- 40% (2014)
- Main cities
- Ajaccio, Bastia, Corti
- Per capita income
- 28.200 € (2018an)
- Native political institutions
- Corsican Assembly
- Main religious culture
- Catholic Christian
- National bank holiday
- A Festa di a Nazione (8 December)
- Main nationalist parties
- FEMU A CORSICA, CORSICA LIBERA, PARTITU DI A NAZIONE CORSA, CORE IN FRONTE
- Nationalist share in the native parliament
- 73% (2021) (In the Corsican Assembly)
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