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 Republic of Italy, is a country that consists of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and several islands surrounding it; its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, in Southern Europe; it is also considered part of Western Europe. A unitary parliamentary republic with Rome as its capital and largest city, the country covers a total area of 301,230 km2 (116,310 sq mi) and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, as well as the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. Italy has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. With over 60 million inhabitants, Italy is the third-most populous member state of the European Union. Read more on Wikipedia