context: Venice's original city center is about 118 islands scattered inside the Venetian lagoon, spanning about 400 bridges and about 3.7 km from land. The population was 268,934 at the time of 2006, of which 176,621 lived on land, 30,702 lived in lagoon, and 61,611 lived in the central storico. Recently, it is sinking due to global warming.
question: What is the population of Venice?
answers.text: 268,934