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Article: Tiny San Marino has problems convincing people it's on the map
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 24, 2003
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Tiny San Marino has problems convincing people it's on the map
By KEN DILANIAN Knight Ridder News Service
Sunday, August 24, 2003
San Marino -- When Gianluigi Conti was traveling in South America
a few years ago, he was nearly detained by immigration officials who
didn't recognize his passport.
"They didn't know San Marino existed," he said.
It was an understandable mistake. With a population of 28,000, the
Republic of San Marino is Europe's second-smallest country, after
Vatican City. Founded in 301, it covers just 24 square miles, a
landlocked city-state in the northeast of Italy, six miles inland
from the coastal resort of Rimini.
Residents share the Italian language and the Catholic ...