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Northern Italy (Italian: Italia settentrionale, Nord Italia, Alta Italia) is a geographical and cultural region in the northern part of Italy. [3] [4] The Italian National Institute of Statistics defines the region as encompassing the four northwestern regions of Piedmont, Aosta Valley, Liguria and Lombardy in addition to the four northeastern regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli ...
Detailed map of Austria Satellite photo of the Alps. Austria may be divided into three unequal geographical areas. The largest part of Austria (62%) is occupied by the relatively young mountains of the Alps, but in the east, these give way to a part of the Pannonian plain, and north of the river Danube lies the Bohemian Forest, an older, but lower, granite mountain range.
The Austrian–Italian border is a 404 km (251 mi) [1] land border along the Alps between the Republic of Italy and the Republic of Austria. A border has existed since 1861, but the current one only since 1920 when happened the peace treaty between the kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Republic. It has been an EU internal border since 1 January ...
A map from 1874 showing South Tirol with approximately the borders of today's South and East Tyrol. South Tyrol (occasionally South Tirol) is the term most commonly used in English for the province, [10] and its usage reflects that it was created from a portion of the southern part of the historic County of Tyrol, a former state of the Holy Roman Empire and crown land of the Austrian Empire of ...
Austria – landlocked sovereign country located in Central Europe. [1] It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west.
Tyrol's southern part is located in Northern Italy and its northern part in Austria The region consists of present-day Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino Euroregion , including Cortina d'Ampezzo , Fodóm (Buchenstein), Col (Verseil), Valvestino , Magasa and Pedemonte
In between the two lies a large plain in the valley of the Po, the largest river in Italy, which flows 652 km (405 mi) eastward from the Cottian Alps to the Adriatic. The Po Valley is the largest plain in Italy, with 46,000 km 2 (18,000 sq mi), and it represents over 70% of the total plain area in the country. [17]
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