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Friuli is a region of northeastern Italy with its own distinctive cultural and historical identity.
It is part of the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia-Giulia (provinces: Udine, Pordenone and Gorizia, excluding Trieste).
Area: 8.240 sq km
Pop: 1.000.000
Capital: Udine
Languages: Italian, Friuli, Veneto, Slovenian and German.
It has a large number of Friulian native speakers and quite strong nationalistic movement working on making Friuli a separate autonomous region of Italy.
There are significant germanophonic minorities in Val Canale (Kanaltal), Timau, Zahre(Sauris) and Plodn (Sappada). Slovene is spoken in the rural border
region of Venetian Slovenia and Venetian is used in Pordenone.
