Last Updated on 2021/12/06
Italy is located in Southern Europe. To the north, Italy borders Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and France.
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The italian flag, il Tricolore, is a tricolour (green, white, red).
Capital: Rome
Official Language: Italian
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Table of Contents
- 1 Where is Italy?
- 2 Italy info
- 3 Economy of Italy
- 4 Other info:
- 5 Climate and Geography of Italy
- 6 Demographics, Administrative divisions, Regions, Cities and Metropolitan cities of Italy
- 7 Regions of Italy
- 8 Famous Italian artists:
- 9 Famous Italian scientists:
- 10 Famous Italian classic composers:
- 11 Famous Italian writers and poets:
- 12 Famous Italian philosophers:
- 13 Famous Italian directors:
- 14 Famous Italian food:
- 15 Religion and ethnic groups of Italy
- 16 Religion:
Europe, between latitudes 35° and 47° N, and longitudes 6° and 19° E.
Italy info
Main dialects: Neapolitan, Piedmontese, Sardinian, Venetian, Sicilian, Romanesco dialect, Lombard,Emiliano-Romagnolo,
Historical minority languages: Albanian, Catalan, German, Greek, Slovene, Croatian, French, Franco-Provençal, Friulian, Ladin, Occitan and Sardinian
Government: Unitary parliamentary constitutional republic
Formation: (Unification) 17 March 1861
Republic: 2 June 1946
Area: 301,338 km2 (116,347 sq mi)
Population: 60,795,612 (2014)
President: Sergio Mattarella
Prime Minister: Giuseppe Conte
President of the Senate of the Republic: Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati
President of the Chamber of Deputies: Roberto Fico
National Anthem of Italy, Fratelli d’Italia
Economy of Italy
GDP (Total): $2.174 trillion (8th, 2015)
GDP (Nominal): $1.848 trillion (2016)
Currency: Euro (€)
Other info:
Calling code: 0039
Internet TLD: .it
Voltage information: 220 volts alternating at a 50 cycles per second.
Climate: Temperate seasonal climate
Mountain range systems: Alps (Alpi), Apennine Mountains (Monti Appennini)
Main Vulcanos: Mount Etna (Sicily), Mount Vesuvius (Campania), Mount Stromboli (Sicily)
Main lakes: Lake Garda (Lombardia, Veneto), Lake Como (Lombardia), Lake Varese (Lombardia,Piedmont)
Main rivers: Po, Adige, Piave, Tevere, Arno
Demographics, Administrative divisions, Regions, Cities and Metropolitan cities of Italy
Main cities of Italy:
Rome – Lazio 2,872,021
Milan – Lombardy 1,337,155
Naples – Campania 978,399
Turin – Piedmont 896,773
Palermo – Sicily 678,492
Genoa – Liguria 592,507
Bologna – Emilia-Romagna 386,181
Florence – Tuscany 381,037
Bari – Apulia 327,361
Catania – Sicily 315,601
Venice – Veneto 264,579
Verona – Veneto 260,125
Messina – Sicily 240,414
Padua – Veneto 211,210
Trieste – Friuli-Venezia Giulia 205,413
Taranto – Apulia 202,016
Brescia – Lombardy 196,058
Prato – Tuscany 191,002
Parma – Emilia-Romagna 190,284
Modena – Emilia-Romagna 185,148
Metropolitan Cities of Italy
City-Area Population
Rome – 5,352 4,336,915
Milan – 1,575 3,190,340
Naples – 1,171 3,128,702
Turin – 6,829 2,293,340
Bari – 3,821 1,251,004
Florence – 3,514 1,007,435
Bologna – 3,702 1,003,027
Genoa – 1,839 864,008
Venice – 2,462 858,455
Reggio Calabria – 3,183 558,959
Cagliari – 1,248 430,413
Regions of Italy
Region Capital Area (km²) Area (sq mi) Population
Abruzzo L’Aquila 10,763 4,156 1,331,574
Aosta Valley Aosta 3,263 1,260 128,298
Apulia Bari 19,358 7,474 4,090,105
Basilicata Potenza 9,995 3,859 576,619
Calabria Catanzaro 15,080 5,822 1,976,631
Campania Naples 13,590 5,247 5,861,529
Emilia-Romagna Bologna 22,446 8,666 4,450,508
Friuli-Venezia Giulia Trieste 7,858 3,034 1,227,122
Lazio Rome 17,236 6,655 5,892,425
Liguria Genoa 5,422 2,093 1,583,263
Lombardy Milan 23,844 9,206 10,002,615
Marche Ancona 9,366 3,616 1,550,796
Molise Campobasso 4,438 1,713 313,348
Piedmont Turin 25,402 9,808 4,424,467
Sardinia Cagliari 24,090 9,301 1,663,286
Sicily Palermo 25,711 9,927 5,092,080
Tuscany Florence 22,993 8,878 3,752,654
Trentino-Alto Adige/
Südtirol Trento 13,607 5,254 1,055,934
Umbria Perugia 8,456 3,265 894,762
Veneto Venice 18,399 7,104 4,927,596
Famous Italian artists:
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Titian, Palladio, Raphael, Giotto, Andrea Mantegna, Giorgione, Antonio Canova, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Canaletto, Giorgio de Chirico
Famous Italian scientists:
Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Guglielmo Marconi, Enrico Fermi, Antonio Meucci
Famous Italian classic composers:
Antonio Vivaldi, Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini
Famous Italian writers and poets:
Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Giacomo Leopardi, Petrarch, Ludovico Ariosto, Italo Calvino, Alessandro Manzoni, Umberto Eco, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Torquato Tasso, Ludovico Ariosto, Giosuè Carducci, Salvatore Quasimodo, Luigi Pirandello, Eugenio Montale, Grazia Deledda
Famous Italian philosophers:
Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Niccolò Machiavelli, Giambattista Vico
Famous Italian directors:
Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vittorio de Sica, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Dario Argento
Famous Italian food:
Pizza, Pasta, Gelato (Icecream), tiramisu, cassata, mozzarella, ricotta, espresso coffee, Italian wine
Religion and ethnic groups of Italy
Foreign residents:
4.9 million (2014, 8.1% of the total population)
Largest immigrant groups (2015):
1 Romania 1,131,839
2 Albania 490,483
3 Morocco 449,058
4 China 265,820
5 Ukraine 226,060
6 Philippines 168,238
7 India 147,815
8 Moldova 147,388
9 Bangladesh 115,301
10 Peru 109,668
11 Egypt 103,713
12 Sri Lanka 100,558
13 Poland 98,694
14 Pakistan 96,207
15 Tunisia 96,012
16 Senegal 94,030
17 Ecuador 91,259
18 Macedonia 77,703
19 Nigeria 71,158
20 Bulgaria 56,576
Religion:
Roman Catholic (71.1%), Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy (0,3%), Protestantism (0,8%), Islam (0,4%), Buddhism (0,3%), Hinduism (0,1%), Judaism (0,1%), Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses (0,8%), Other
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