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Italy
Location marker · geographic overview
42.83° N / 12.83° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Rome
- Population
- 58,952,704 2024
- Area
- 301,336 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Italian, Catalan
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Italy
Italy (Italian: Italia) was once the core of the mighty Roman Empire, and the cradle of the Renaissance. Along with Greece, it is regarded as the "birthplace" of Western culture, and it is also home to the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world, including high art and monuments.
Food & everyday culture
Italian pasta is usually available with a myriad of sauces rather than simply tomato or Alfredo. Also, Italian pasta is often served a small amount of sauce. This is, in part, because pasta in a restaurant is usually regarded as the first course of a three- or four-course meal, not a meal in itself.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-11. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Southern Europe
- Calling code
- +39
- Internet domain
- .it
- Land border codes
- AUT, FRA, SMR, SVN, CHE, VAT
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .it. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.