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Rome's international airport, Fiumicino, is the largest in Italy, and the city hosts the head offices of the vast majority of the major Italian companies, as well as the headquarters of three of the world's 100 largest companies: Enel, Eni, and Telecom Italia. [162]
It is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. It is the center of the Metropolitan City of Rome, which has a population of 4.3 million residents. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber.
The main harbour which serves Rome is the Port of Civitavecchia, located about 62 km (39 mi) northwest of the city, [7] part of the "Motorways of the Sea", it is linked to several Mediterranean ports and is one of the busiest cruise ports in the world. A 3-line metro system called the Metropolitana operates in the Metropolitan City of Rome ...
Fiumicino (Italian: [fjumiˈtʃiːno]) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 80,500 (2019). [2] It is known for being the site of Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, the busiest airport in Italy and the ninth-busiest in Europe, which serves Rome and much of central Italy.
The France–Italy border is mainly mountainous. It is 515 kilometres (320 mi) long, [1] in southeast France and northwest Italy. It begins at the west tripoint of France–Italy–Switzerland near the top of Mont Dolent (3,820 m), in the French commune of Chamonix (department of Haute-Savoie), the Italian city of Courmayeur (Aosta Valley) and the Swiss commune of Orsières (canton of Valais
The geography of Vatican City is unique due to the country's position as an urban, landlocked enclave of Rome, Italy. With an area of 49 hectares (120 acres; 0.49 square kilometres), [ a ] and a border with Italy of 3.5 km (2.2 mi), it is the world's smallest independent state .
La Storta is the 51st zona of the Italian capital city, Rome.It is identified by the initials Z. LI and falls within the boundaries of Municipio XV. [note 1]The name La Storta ("the curve"; literally 'twisted' or 'bent') refers to a series of curves that the Via Cassia makes through the settlement.
EUR is a residential area and the major business district in Rome, Italy, part of the Municipio IX.. The area was originally chosen in the 1930s as the site for the 1942 World's Fair which Benito Mussolini planned to open to celebrate twenty years of Fascism, the letters EUR standing for Esposizione Universale Roma ("Rome Universal Exposition").