its population is 98.057 (march 2005) and the area of the municipality is 52.34 km2. bolzano has a history of italian-speaking inhabitants since the middle ages. the region of alto adige/südtirol is mainly german speaking, but in the city the italian speaking population was the majority (75%) in 2001. the german speaking population of the city was 24% and the ladin speaking less than 1%. actually the foreign-born are around 7% (mostly are from eastern europe).