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In black, the borders of the Italian Republic, in red the borders of the Italian geographical region. The Italian geographical region , [ 2 ] in its traditional and most widely accepted extent, has an area of approximately 324,000 square kilometres (125,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] which is greater than the area of the entire Italian Republic (301,230 ...
The borders of the Italian Republic in black, the borders of the Italian geographical region in red. The Italian geographic region, Italian physical region or Italian region is a geographical region [1] of Southern Europe delimited to the north by the mountain chains of the Alps.
Italy, [a] officially the Italian Republic, [b] is a country in Southern [12] and Western Europe. [13] [c] It consists of a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. [15]
Italy shares its north border with: Austria; France; Slovenia; Switzerland shares Italy's northern border, and Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. Independent states surrounded by Italy (otherwise within Italy's borders) include: San Marino; Vatican City
The Austro-Hungarian fortifications on the Italian border were constructed in the 19th and early 20th centuries to protect against invasion from Italy. Most were built in what is today the Trentino-Alto Adige region; some built outside this territory were ceded to Italy after 1866.
The border is a product of the Napoleonic period, established with the provisional constitution of the Helvetic Republic of 15 January 1798, restored in 1815. While this border existed as a border of Switzerland from 1815, there was only a unified Italian state to allow the existence of a "Swiss-Italian border" with the formation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, it previously comprised the ...
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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