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Location
Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Peninsula A peninsula (from Latin paene insula, almost island) is a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body, surrounded by water on three sides. ... Composite satellite image of the Mediterranean Sea. ...
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7,600 km
Maritime claims
Continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Predominantly Mediterranean; Alpine in far north; hot, dry in south
Terrain
Mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains, coastal lowlands
Natural resources
Mercury, potash, marble, sulfur, dwindling natural gas and crude oil reserves, fish, coal, arable land
Land use
Arable land: 31%
Permanent crops: 10%
Permanent pastures: 15%
Forests and woodland: 23%
Other: 21% (1993 est.)
Irrigated land
27,100 km² (1993 est.)
Natural hazards
Regional risks include landslides, mudflows, avalanches, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding; land subsidence in Venice
Environment--current issues
Air pollution from industrial emissions such as sulphur dioxide; coastal and inland rivers polluted from industrial and agricultural effluents; acid rain damaging lakes; inadequate industrial waste treatment and disposal facilities
Environment--international agreements
Party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
Signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol
Geography--note
Strategic location dominating central Mediterranean as well as southern sea and air approaches to Western Europe
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Italy is well-known for its art, culture and monuments (the leaning tower of Pisa and the Roman Colosseum), as well as for its food (pizza, pasta, etc.), wine, lifestyle, elegance, design, cinema, theatre, literature, poetry, visual arts, music (notably Opera), holidays, and generally speaking, for taste.
Italy shares its borders with Switzerland and Austria on the north; Slovenia and the Adriatic Sea on the east; the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea on the south; the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ligurian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea on the west; and France on the northwest.
Italy has a great diversity of climates ranging from the frigid in the higher elevations of the Alps and Apennines, to the semitropical along the coast of the Ligurian Sea and the western coast of the Lower Peninsula.
N Italy, made up largely of a vast plain that is contained by the Alps in the N and drained by the Po River and its tributaries, comprises the regions of Liguria, Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta (see Aosta, Valle d’), Lombardy, Trentino–alto Adige, Venetia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and part of Emilia-Romagna (which extends into central Italy).
The history of Italy from the 5th century B.C. to the 5th century A.D. is largely that of the growth of Rome and of the Roman Empire, of which Italy was the core.
After the war, Italy’s borders were established by the peace treaty of 1947, which assigned several small Alpine districts to France; the Dodecanese to Greece; and Trieste, Istria, most of Venezia Giulia, and several Adriatic islands to the former Yugoslavia and to the Free Territory of Trieste.
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