Italy (Italian:
Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern
Europe. It comprises a boot-shaped
peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea,
Sicily and Sardinia, and shares its northern alpine boundary
with France, Switzerland,
Austria and Slovenia.
The independent countries of San Marino and the Vatican
City are enclaves within Italian territory.
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Living in Italy
Italy is well-known for its art, culture, and several
monuments, among them the leaning tower of Pisa and
the Roman Colosseum, as well as for its food (pizza,
pasta, etc.), wine, lifestyle, elegance, design, cinema,
theatre, literature, poetry, visual arts, music (notably
Opera), holidays, and generally speaking, for taste.
Italy is largely homogeneous in language and religion
but is diverse culturally, economically, and politically.
The country has the fifth-highest population density
in Europe at 196 persons per square kilometre. Indigenous
minority groups are small. For a country of 58 million
people, Italy has a smaller number of migrants compared
to Spain, France, and Germany. According to ISTAT, the
national statistical office, Italy has 2 million (3.5%)
foreigners, including legal immigrants and their children.
The largest immigrant groups are Romanian (445,812)
(unnoficially 1,000,000 ), Albanian (270,383), Moroccan
(253,362) and Chinese (86,738). The are many other ethnic
groups, like Filipinos, Tunisians, Serbians, and Ukrainians,
but they make very small numbers.
Although Roman Catholicism is the majority religion
(85% of native-born citizens are nominally Catholic)
there are mature Protestant and Jewish communities and
a growing Muslim (see: Islam in Italy) immigrant community,
as many come from Albania, Morocco, and Tunisia.
Italy consists predominantly of a large peninsula with
a distinctive boot shape that extends into the Mediterranean
Sea, where together with its two main islands Sicily
and Sardinia it creates distinct bodies of water, such
as the Adriatic Sea to the north-east, the Ionian Sea
to the south-east, the Tyrrhenian Sea to the south-west
and finally the Ligurian Sea to the north-west.
The Apennine mountains form the backbone of this peninsula,
leading north-west to where they join the Alps, the
mountain range that then forms an arc enclosing Italy
from the north. Here is also found a large alluvial
plain, the Po-Venetian plain, drained by the Po River
and its many tributaries flowing down from the Alps,
Apennines and Dolomites. Other well-known rivers include
the Tiber, Adige and Arno.
Its highest point is Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco) at 4,810
m, but Italy is more typically associated with two famous
volcanoes: the currently dormant Vesuvius near Naples
and the very active Etna on Sicily.
Italy is subdivided into 20 regions
(regioni, singular regione), of which five enjoy a special
autonomous status that enables them to enact legislation
on some of their specific local matters, marked by an:
Abruzzo
Basilicata
Calabria
Campania
Emilia-Romagna
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Latium (Lazio)
Liguria
Lombardy (Lombardia)
Marche
Molise
Piedmont (Piemonte)
Apulia (Puglia)
Sardinia (Sardegna)
Sicily (Sicilia)
Tuscany (Toscana)
Trentino-South Tyrol (Trentino-Alto Adige)
Umbria
Aosta Valley (Valle d'Aosta)*
Veneto
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