Italy (ita)

Italy

Italy ranks 609th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Craiova, Kingston upon Thames, and Ixelles. Memorable people born in Italy include Constans, Lambert of Italy, and Tancred, Prince of Galilee. Memorable people who died in Italy include Suetonius, Julius Evola, and Ettore Majorana. Italy has been the birth place of many politicians, and painters and the death place of many soccer players, and religious figures. Italy is located in Italy.

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe. 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. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi), and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. Read more on Wikipedia