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Island in the Mediterranean, 10 km/6 mi off
the W coast of Italy; population (1981)
35,000; area 223 sq km/86 sq mi. Iron ore is
exported from the capital, Portoferraio, to
the Italian mainland, and there is a fishing
industry. The small uninhabited island of
Monte Cristo, 40 km/25 mi to the S, supplied
the title of Alexandre Dumas's hero in The
Count of Monte Cristo. Elba was Napoleon's
place of exile 1814-15.