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Rome also serves as the capital of the Lazio region. With 2,876,076 residents in 1,285 km2 (496.1 sq mi), it is also the country's most populated comune. 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.
The Balkans is a region which natural borders do not coincide with the technical definition of a peninsula hence modern geographers reject the idea of a Balkan Peninsula. It would include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the European part of Turkey.
Rome is the third most visited city in Europe, and 12th in the world, with 9.4 million arrivals in 2017. [253] Venice and Florence are among the world's top 100 destinations. Italy has the most World Heritage Sites of any country: 59, [254] of which 53 are cultural and 6 natural. [255]
Map Macroregion Italian name Regions Major city Population January 2022 Area (km 2) Population density (km 2) MEPs; Number % km 2 % Centre Centro: Lazio Marche Tuscany Umbria: Rome: 11,740,836 19.91% 58,085 km 2 (22,427 sq mi) 19.23% 202 15: North-West Nord-Ovest: Aosta Valley Liguria Lombardy Piedmont: Milan: 15,848,100 26.87% 57,928 km 2 ...
The Po river in Turin The Tiber river in Rome. Italian rivers are shorter than those of other European regions due to the Apennines that run along the entire length of the peninsula, dividing the waters into two opposite sides. They are numerous however, due to the relative abundance of rains in Italy in general, and to the presence of the ...
The consolidation of Italy into a single entity occurred during the Roman expansion in the peninsula, when Rome formed a permanent association with most of other the local tribes and cities. [ 3 ] [ page needed ] The strength of the Italian confederacy was a crucial factor in the rise of Rome , starting with the Punic and Macedonian wars ...
Almost 500 years old, this map of Rome by Mario Cartaro (from 1575) shows the city's primary monuments. Castel Sant'Angelo, or Hadrian's Mausoleum, is a Roman monument built in 134 AD, radically altered in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and crowned with 16th and 17th-century statues.
Italy is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe, located primarily upon the Italian Peninsula. It is where Ancient Rome originated as a small agricultural community about the 8th century BC, which spread over the course of centuries into the colossal Roman Empire, encompassing the whole Mediterranean Basin and spreading Roman ...