Italy
Italy (officially Italian Republic) is a country in Southern Europe, with its capital at Rome, and is home to roughly 59.0M people.
Italian is the official language; the currency in circulation is Euro (€); people from here are called Italian.
- »Italy has more UNESCO World Heritage sites than any other country.
- »Two independent states sit entirely inside it: San Marino and Vatican City.
- »Vesuvius is the only active volcano on mainland Europe.
Its territory comes in pieces: one mainland carrying 83% of the area, plus two further landmasses large enough to show up at map scale.
Italy touches six neighbours: Austria to the north, France to the northwest, San Marino to the northeast, Slovenia to the northeast, Switzerland to the northwest and Vatican City to the south. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Rome became Italy's capital only in 1871, after the new kingdom took the city from the Papal States. It surrounds Vatican City, a sovereign state entirely within its limits.
300,735 km² (116,114 sq mi), 71st largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of the Philippines.
Population 58,952,704, 25th of 198 on file. That averages 196 per km² (508 per sq mi).
Modelled on the French tricolour, with green replacing blue, said to be the colour of the Milanese civic guard, and sometimes read as the green of the land, the white of the Alps and the red of blood shed in war.
Close enough to Mexico's flag to cost you a guess.
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