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Category: Geography of Italy by region. ... Highest points of Italian regions (2 C, 16 P) Landforms of Italy by region (28 C) Piazzas in Italy by region (14 C)
Geography of Italy by province (4 C) Geography of Italy by region (25 C) * Italy geography-related lists (2 C, 19 P) B. Borders of Italy (10 C, 5 P) C. Climate of ...
Italy has a prevalence of hilly areas (41.6% of the territory) compared to mountainous areas (35.2% of the territory), or flat areas (23.2%). [9] The Italian soil today is the result of anthropization and is partly mountainous, partly hilly, partly volcanic, partly endolagunar with bumps, polesine, islands, dried up by reclamation (Bonifiche ...
Production rose from 13.8 million cubic metres (490 million cubic feet) of gas in 1984 and 2.2 million tonnes (2.4 million short tons) of oil to 17.4 billion cubic metres (610 billion cubic feet) and 4.3 million tonnes (4.7 million short tons) of oil by 1991, and new reserves were sound in Italy between 1992 and 1993.
For several centuries, the geographical description of Strabo did not change until the publication of the first universal geography of Conrad Malte-Brun (1775–1826), Geography or description of all parts of the world. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and in particular with the arrival of the Lombards, Italy lost its political unity.
The distribution of the foreign population is geographically varied: in 2020, 61% of foreign citizens lived in the north, 24% in the centre, 11% in the south, and 4% on the islands. [200] In 2021, Italy had about 5.2 million foreign residents, [1] [201] making up 9% of the population.
Satellite view of the peninsula in March 2003. The Italian peninsula (Italian: penisola italica or penisola italiana), also known as the Italic Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula, Italian Boot, or Mainland Italy, is a peninsula, within the Italian geographical region, extending from the southern Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south which comprises much of the country of ...
Rosario lies on the tall ravine of the right-hand shore of the Paraná River, in a place where the ravine separates from the river and there is a natural slope to the low shore, known as Bajada Sargento Cabral (after sergeant Juan Bautista Cabral, who died during the Battle of San Lorenzo). For a long time this was the only access to the port ...