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Line 96: [[File:Suisse italiene.png\|thumb\|right\|250px\|A map showing the Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland: darker areas indicate where Italian is most prominent]]'''Italian Switzerland''' ({{lang-it\|Svizzera italiana}}, {{lang-rm\|Svizra taliana}}, {{lang-fr\|Suisse italienne}}, {{lang-de\|italienische Schweiz}}) is the Italian-speaking part of [[Switzerland]], which includes the canton of [[Ticino]] and [[Italian Graubünden\|the southern part of Graubünden]]. Italian is also spoken in the [[Zwischbergen\|Gondo]] Valley (leading to the [[Simplon Pass]], on the southern part of the watershed) in Valais. The linguistic region covers an area approximately 3,500 km² and has a total population of around 350,000 inhabitants,<ref>{{fr icon}} [http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/fr/index/themen/01/02/blank/data/01.Document.67126.xls Bilan de la population résidante permanente selon les cantons] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090920100559/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/fr/index/themen/01/02/blank/data/01.Document.67126.xls \|date=20 September 2009 }}; calculated adding up the inhabitants in [[Ticino]] and 11% of the inhabitants of [[Grigioni]], Swiss Federal Statistical Office</ref> with the number of Italophones residing in Switzerland being 545,274 (about 7% of the Swiss population).<ref name="CHLangHome2012">{{cite web \|title=Bevölkerung, Strukturerhebung der eidgenössischen Volkszählung 2011: Bevölkerung nach Sprache und Religion, Ständige Wohnbevölkerung ab 15 Jahren nach zuhause gesprochenen Sprachen, 2011 \|url=http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/news/04/01.Document.169329.xls \|type=Statistics \|format=XLS \|date=30 May 2013 \|publisher=Swiss Federal Statistical Office \|location=Neuchâtel, Switzerland \|language=German, French, Italian \|accessdate=22 December 2013 \|deadurl=yes \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114071643/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/news/04/01.Document.169329.xls \|archivedate=14 November 2013 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref> The proportion of Italian-speaking inhabitants had been decreasing since the 1970s, after reaching a high of 12% of the population during the same decade. This was entirely because of the reduced number of immigrants from Italy to Switzerland, but gained again during the last decade.<ref name=FSOML/>