Has more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other country, and encloses two independent states within its borders.
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Italy
Italian Republic ยท Italia
Europe
ยท Southern Europe
0Population
301.34Kkmยฒ of land
$33.23KGDP / person
RomeCapital
- ISO codes
- IT ยท ITA
- Density
- 200 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Italian
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +39
- Internet domain
- .it
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 44.7320ยฐ N, 11.0770ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Italian
- UN region
- Southern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: G7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $2T
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 6
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By the numbers
How Italy stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
23rd
of 242 ยท 0.79% of world population
Land area
74th
of 242 ยท 0.20% of world land
GDP per person
48th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
66th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Italy
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 60,297,396 people, the 23rd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.79 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 301,336 kmยฒ, making it the 74th largest country here - about 9.9 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 200 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Rome, at 41.90ยฐ N, 12.48ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 3,339,000.
Shares land borders with 6 countries: Austria, France, San Marino, Slovenia and Switzerland (and 1 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Rome.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
The official language is Italian.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Rome
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Rome
Lazio
41.8979ยฐ N, 12.4813ยฐ E
3.34M
2
Milan
Lombardia
45.4719ยฐ N, 9.2031ยฐ E
2.95M
3
Naples
Campania
40.8420ยฐ N, 14.2431ยฐ E
2.25M
4
Turin
Piemonte
45.0723ยฐ N, 7.6680ยฐ E
1.65M
5
Florence
Toscana
43.7800ยฐ N, 11.2500ยฐ E
1.5M
6
Palermo
Sicily
38.1270ยฐ N, 13.3481ยฐ E
863K
7
Catania
Sicily
37.5000ยฐ N, 15.0800ยฐ E
674.54K
8
Genoa
Liguria
44.4100ยฐ N, 8.9300ยฐ E
647.5K
9
Bari
Apulia
41.1142ยฐ N, 16.8728ยฐ E
500.58K
10
Bologna
Emilia-Romagna
44.5004ยฐ N, 11.3400ยฐ E
488.17K
๐ Peaks
Mount Etna
3,357 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Colosseum
Ancient
The largest amphitheatre ever built, once flooded for mock naval battles in front of fifty thousand spectators.
Venice
City
A city on 118 islands, built on millions of alder piles driven into the lagoon mud.
Land neighbours
6 countries share a border with Italy.