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Italy

Italian Republic

Flag Coat of arms

Anthem: Il Canto degli Italiani

(also known as Inno di Mameli)

The Song of the Italians

Location of Italy (dark green)

– on the European continent (light green & dark grey)

– in the European Union (light green) — [Legend] Capital (and largest city) Rome

41°54′N 12°29′E Official languages Italian1 Demonym Government - President - Prime Minister - Unification Italian Parliamentary republic Giorgio Napolitano Silvio Berlusconi 17 March 1861 Formation

- Republic

EU accession 2 June 1946 25 March 1957 (founding

member) Area

301,338 km2 (71st)

116,346.5 sq mi

2.4 Population - Total - Water (%)

1st March - 2008 estimate

October - 2001 census

- Density

GDP (PPP)

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GDP (nominal)

- Total

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Gini (2000)

HDI (2005)

Currency Time zone - Summer (DST) Drives on the

Internet TLD Calling code 59,715,627 (23rd) 57,110,144 197.6/km2 (54th) 511.7/sq mi 2007 estimate $1,787 trillion(10th) $30,365 (IMF) (25th) 2007 estimate $2,104 trillion (7th) $35,745 (IMF) (20th) 36 (medium) ▲ 0.941 (high) (20th) Euro (€)2 (EUR) CET (UTC+1) CEST (UTC+2) right .it3 39

French is co-official in the Aosta Valley; Friulian is

1co-official in Friuli-Venezia Giulia; German and Ladin are co-official in the province of Bolzano-Bozen; Sardinian is co-official in Sardinia.

Before 2002, the Italian Lira. The euro is accepted in 2 Campione d'Italia (but the official currency is the Swiss Franc). [3]

3The .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with other European Union member states.

Italy (·) (: Italia), officially the Italian Republic, (: Repubblica Italiana), is located on the in , and on the two largest islands in the , and . Italy shares its northern with , , and . The independent states of and the are within the Italian Peninsula, while is an Italian in Switzerland.

Italy has been the home of many , such as the and the , and later was the birthplace of the and of the movement of the , that began in and spread all over Europe. Italy's capital was for centuries the center of ; it also spawned the movement and seats the . from the second half of the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Today, Italy is a democratic republic and a with the 8th-highest in the world.It is a founding

member of what is now the (having signed the in 1957), and a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (). It is a member of the (having the world's ), (OECD), (WTO), the

, the , the , and a state. It has the world's and shares . On 1 January 2007, Italy began a two year term as a of the .