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Molise

Mainly agricultural region of southern central Italy, comprising the provinces of Campobasso and Isernia; area 4,438 sq km/1,714 sq mi; population (1998 est) 329,000. Its capital is Campobasso. The chief products are corn, vines, olives, potatoes, and maize; sheep and goats are reared.

Extensive agriculture (utilizing large land areas because of low productivity) is practised in the Apennines, which occupy a large part of Molise, and intensive farming on the Adriatic plain and in the river valleys. There is little industry not associated with agricultural products.

Molise was a poor and underdeveloped region which lost population rapidly (10% between 1963 and 1971) until the development of the Guardialfera Reservoir and new road links with the Adriatic coast. It remains the least inhabited of Italy's regions, but the decline in its population was stemmed by 1990.



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