Italy (ita)

Italy

Italy ranks 447th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Vitoria-Gasteiz, Maribor, and Syracuse, Sicily. Memorable people born in Italy include Tancred, Prince of Galilee, Constans, and Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia. Memorable people who died in Italy include Luciano Pavarotti, Suetonius, and Julius Evola. 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 or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern and Western Europe. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, it consists of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and surrounded by several islands; its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of 301,230 km2 (116,310 sq mi), with a population of about 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Read more on Wikipedia