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Only 140 km (87 mi) separate Sicily and Africa (the Tunisian peninsula), by the channel of Sicily. [5] To the east, Salento is 70 km (43 mi) from the Albanian coast, [6] at the narrowest point of the Strait of Otranto. It is Capo d'Otranto (also called Punta Palascìa), located at 40° 7' north latitude and 18° 31' east longitude.
Africa was a Roman province on the northern coast of the continent of Africa. It was established in 146 BC, following the Roman Republic 's conquest of Carthage in the Third Punic War . It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia , the northeast of Algeria , and the coast of western Libya along the Gulf of Sidra .
Fontana della Barcaccia in Piazza di Spagna, the Spanish Steps and Trinità dei Monti Piazza Navona As of 2022, the Vatican Museums are the second most visited art museum in the world. [163] Rome today is one of the most important tourist destinations of the world, due to the incalculable immensity of its archaeological and artistic treasures ...
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth 's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [ 9 ]
The Maghreb is a region of northwest Africa encompassing the coastlands and Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The Sahara Desert is the massive sparsely populated region in North Africa that contains the world's largest hot deserts; Sub-Saharan Africa is the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara.
The Mediterranean Sea, between Africa and Europe The Atlantic Ocean around the plate boundaries (text is in Finnish). The African and European mainlands are non-contiguous, and the delineation between these continents is thus merely a question of which islands are to be associated with which continent.
Rome is the third most visited city in Europe, and 12th in the world, with 9.4 million arrivals in 2017. [310] Venice and Florence are among the world's top 100 destinations. Italy has the most World Heritage Sites of any country: 59, [ 311 ] of which 53 are cultural and 6 natural .