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Corsica has a population of 322,120 inhabitants (Jan. 2013 estimate). [1] At the 2011 census, 56.3% of the inhabitants of Corsica were born on the island and 28.6% in Continental France , while 0.3% were natives of Overseas France and 14.8% hailed from foreign (non-French) countries.
1.4%: 1990: 62.0%: 21.3%: 0.2%: 6.0%: 10.5% 1982: 61.6%: 20.4%: 0.2%: 6.0%: 11.8% 1 Essentially Pieds-Noirs who resettled in Corsica after the independence of Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, many of whom had Corsican ancestry. 2 An immigrant is by French definition a person born in a foreign country and who did not have French citizenship at ...
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km 2 Corse-du-Sud ( French pronunciation: [kɔʁs dy syd] ⓘ ; Corsican: Corsica suttana [ˈkorsiga zutˈtana] , Pumonte [puˈmɔntɛ] [ a ] or Pumonti [puˈmɔnti] ; English: Southern Corsica ) is (as of 2019) an administrative department of ...
The January 2007 estimated population of Corsica was 281,000, whereas the figure for the March 1999 census, when most of the studies—though not the linguistic survey work referenced in this article—were performed, was about 261,000. Only a fraction of the population at either time spoke Corsican with any fluency.
At the base of it is the second largest city in Corsica, Bastia. Cap Corse is also a Communauté de communes comprising 18 communes. [1] [2] The area of the Communauté de communes is 305.7 km 2, and its population was 6,706 in 2019. [3]
During the reign of Napoleon III Corsica suffered a decline in agricultural production (particularly in the wine, olive and chestnut industries) due to unfair trade practices imposed by France. That coupled with a population boom due to the eradication of malaria in coastal areas, forced many Corsican families to emigrate to the Caribbean .
The two major shipping companies providing these links are Corsica Linea and Corsica Ferries. Ferries Ajaccio has also become a stopover for cruises with a total of 418,086 passengers in 2007—by far the largest in Corsica and the second-largest in France (after Marseille, but ahead of Nice/ Villefranche-sur-Mer and Cannes ).
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Corscia ( French pronunciation: [kɔʁʃ(j)a] ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica .