What Is Italy And Where Is The Country Located? (Answer)

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What Is Italy And Where Is The Country Located? (Answer)

ITALY – In this topic, we will now know what is the country called Italy and where is the location of this country.

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Also known as the Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana, it is a peninsula country that is surrounded by several islands.

It has a landmass of about 301K kilometers squared or 116K square miles. It has a population of about 60 million people, as of 2018, making it the 23rd most populous country.

Its capital is Rome and the official language is Italian. The government is a unitary parliamentary republic and is currently headed by president Sergio Mattarella.

How it got the name Italy, or Italia, has many sources:

  • It is derived in Greek from the Oscan word Víteliú, which means “land of calves”.
  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus theorized that it got itsw name from the legendary king Italus

Where is it located?

It is in the continent Europe, specifically in the Southern Europe region, although parts of it are in the borders of the Western Europe region. The country borders the following areas:

  • Land
    • France
    • Switzerland
    • Austria
    • Slovenia
    • The Alps
  • Water
    • Mediterranean Sea
      • Adriatic Sea – East
      • Ionian Sea – South
      • Ligurian Sea – West
      • Tyrrhenian Sea – West

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