_#_Climate: mild temperate; cool, cloudy, wet winters; hot, clear, dry summers; interior is cooler and wetter
_#_Terrain: mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast
_#_Natural resources: crude oil, natural gas, coal, chromium, copper, timber, nickel
_#_Land use: arable land 21%; permanent crops 4%; meadows and pastures 15%; forest and woodland 38%; other 22%; includes irrigated 1%
_#_Environment: subject to destructive earthquakes; tsunami occur along southwestern coast; deforestation seems to be slowing
_#_Note: strategic location along Strait of Otranto (links Adriatic Sea to Ionian Sea and Mediterranean Sea)
_*People #_Population: 3,335,044 (July 1991), growth rate 1.8% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 24 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 5 deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)