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BASIC FACTS ABOUT ITALY

OFFICIAL NAME: The Republic of Italy (Repubblica Italiana)
EU ADMISSION DATE: 1957
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION: Southern Europe
NEIGHBOURS: Austria, France, The Vatican, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland (Seas: Ionian, Adriatic, Tyrrhenian, Mediterranean)
AREA: 301,230 km2
POPULATION: ca.58 million
ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION: 15 regions (regioni) and autonomic regions (regioni autonome)
CAPITAL: Rome
CHIEF CITIES: Milan (Milano), Turin (Torino), Naples (Napoli), Verona, Venice (Venezia), Florence (Firenze), Bologna, Palermo, Genoa, Catania
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Italian
THE HIGHEST PEAK: Monte Bianco de Courmayer (4,748 m)
LONGEST RIVERS: Po, Tiber
CURRENCY: euro
MAIN RELIGION: Catholic
FAMOUS PEOPLE: Paolo Rossi, Dino Zoff, Silvio Berlusconi, Alessandro del Piero, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Galileo Galilei, Guglielmo Marconi, Giovanni Caboto, Krzysztof Kolumb, Marco Polo, Amerigo Vespucci, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Umberto Eco, Niccolo Machiavelli, Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Monica Bellucci, Roberto Beningni, Sophia Loren, Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Rafael Santi, Donato Bramante, Bernardo Morando, Luciano Pavarotti, Roberto Baggio, Reinhold Messner, Georgio Armani, Saint Francis of Assisi