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The regions of Italy (Italian: regioni d'Italia) are the first-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic, constituting its second NUTS administrative level. [1] There are twenty regions, five of which are autonomous regions with special status .
This category groups articles on the official administrative Regions of Italy. See also Category:Geographical, historical and cultural regions of Italy . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Regions of Italy .
The idea of Italy as a geographic region is very old. It was described with the geographical notion of peninsula as early as the 1st century BC in the oldest treatise called Geographica (in ancient Greek: Γεωγραφικά - Gheographikà), [ 11 ] a work in 17 volumes by the Greek geographer Strabo (65/64 – 25/21 BC).
Central Italy encompasses four of the country's 20 regions: . Lazio; the Marches (Marche); Tuscany (Toscana); Umbria; The easternmost and southernmost parts of Lazio (Cittaducale, Amatrice, Sora, Cassino, Isola del Liri, Sperlonga, Fondi, Gaeta and Formia districts, as well as the islands of Ponza and Ventotene) are sometimes connected to southern Italy (the so-called Mezzogiorno) for cultural ...
Italy portal; This category groups articles on the geographical, historical and cultural regions of Italy, as opposed to the twenty contemporary administrative regions which are placed in Category:Regions of Italy. See also Category:Italian states. Articles on such former states which retain a contemporary resonance are likely to appear both in ...
Italy has 1,371 endemic plant species and subspecies, [152] which include Sicilian fir, Barbaricina columbine, Sea marigold, Lavender cotton, and Ucriana violet. Italy is a signatory to the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats and the Habitats Directive. Italy has many botanical and historic gardens. [153]
Italy, whose territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region, [1] is located in southern Europe and comprises the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula crossed by the Apennines, the southern side of Alps, the large plain of the Po Valley and some islands including Sicily and Sardinia.
The southern economy greatly suffered after the Italian unification, and the process of industrialisation was interrupted. This situation of persistent backwardness in the socioeconomic development of the regions of southern Italy compared to the other regions of the country, especially the northern ones, is known as the southern question.