Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to France. Located in the west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the Italian island of Sardinia. Constitute two-thirds of the island mountains, in one series.

Corsica is one of the attractive areas in 27 districts of France, Corsica has some powers to the largest French regions, but the other is referred to as the common area of ​​discourse. Despite the separation of the island from the mainland and on the continental shelf of the Sea of ​​Liguria and the closest to mainland Italy from the French, however, that the policy of Corsica is part of Metropolitan France.

Corsica is divided into two parts, Haute Corse (Corsica High) and Sud de Corse (Corsica in the south), with a regional capital in Ajaccio, and the province of Sud de Corse. Bastia, is a city province of Haute-Corse, which is the second largest settlement in Corsica.

After the judgment against the Republic of Genoa, starting in 1282, which was for a period belonging to the Independent Republic of Corsica in 1755 until it was occupied by France in 1769. Culture Corsica contain all of the elements, French, Italian, and wrote the Constitution of the Italian Republic. Language is recognized as a regional Corsican mother by the French government.

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