Italy

Italy was once the core of the mighty Roman Empire, and the cradle of the Renaissance. Along with , it is regarded as the "birthplace" of Western culture, and it is also home to the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world, including high art and monuments.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Rome and Venice.

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, the 'Eternal City', is the capital and largest city of Italy and of the region.

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is a sanctuary on a lagoon that is virtually…

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is financially the most important city in Italy…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Central Italy and Northwest Italy.

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contains several distinctive regions…

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consists of four of Italy's regions: , , and Valle d'Aosta.

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, sometimes known as Mezzogiorno, encompasses five of Italy's twenty regions.

is both one of the most affluent and visited areas of Italy.

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is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea…

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with its quintessential Mediterranean beauty…

Italy

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Latitude of center
42.9° or 42° 54′ north
Longitude of center
12.5° or 12° 30′ east
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
3175395
Wiki­data ID
Q38

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Italy” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Италиа”
  • Achinese: “Itali”
  • Adyghe: “Италие”
  • Afar: “Italy”
  • Afrikaans: “Italiaanse Republiek”
  • Afrikaans: “Italië”
  • Akan: “Itali”
  • Albanian: “Itali”
  • Albanian: “Italia”
  • Algerian Arabic: “إيطاليا”
  • Algerian Arabic: “الطاليان”
  • Amharic: “ጣሊያን”
  • Amharic: “ጣልያን”
  • Amis: “Italy”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἰταλία”
  • Angika: “इटली”
  • Arabic: “إيطاليا”
  • Arabic: “ايطاليا”
  • Aragonese: “Italia”
  • Armenian: “Իտալական Հանրապետություն”
  • Armenian: “Իտալիա”
  • Arpitan: “Étalia”
  • Arpitan: “Étalie”
  • Assamese: “ইটালি”
  • Assamese: “ইটালী”
  • Asturian: “Italia”
  • Asturian: “Repubblica Italiana”
  • Asturian: “República d’Italia”
  • Asturian: “República Italiana”
  • Atayal: “Italy”
  • Atikamekw: “Italie”
  • Atikamekw: “Tariaw Aski”
  • Avaric: “Италия”
  • Awadhi: “इटली”
  • Aymara: “Italia”
  • Aymara: “Italiya”
  • Azerbaijani: “İtaliya”
  • Balinese: “Italia”
  • Bambara: “Itali”
  • Bambara: “Italiya”
  • Banjar: “Itali”
  • Bashkir: “Италия”
  • Basque: “Italia”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Italia”
  • Batak Toba: “Italia”
  • Bavarian: “Italien”
  • Belarusian: “Італія”
  • Belarusian: “Італьянская Рэспубліка”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Італія”
  • Bengali: “ইতালি”
  • Bengali: “ইতালিয়া”
  • Bengali: “ইতালীয় প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bengali: “রিপাবলিকা ইতালিয়ানা”
  • Betawi: “Itali”
  • Bhojpuri: “इटली”
  • Bhojpuri: “इतालिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “ইতালি”
  • Bislama: “Itali”
  • Bislama: “Italy”
  • Bosnian: “Italija”
  • Breton: “Italia”
  • Buginese: “it”
  • Buginese: “Itali”
  • Buginese: “Italiya”
  • Buginese: “ᨕᨗᨈᨒᨗ”
  • Buginese: “ᨕᨗᨈᨒᨗᨐ”
  • Buginese: “ᨕᨗᨈᨒᨗᨕ”
  • Bulgarian: “Италианска република”
  • Bulgarian: “Италия”
  • Burmese: “အီတလီ”
  • Burmese: “အီတလီနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Estat italià”
  • Catalan: “Itàlia”
  • Catalan: “República d’Itàlia”
  • Catalan: “República Italiana”
  • Cebuano: “Italya”
  • Central Bikol: “Italya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Italy”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیتاڵی”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیتاڵیا”
  • Chamorro: “Italia”
  • Chavacano: “Italia”
  • Chechen: “Итали”
  • Cherokee: “ᎢᏔᎵ”
  • Cherokee: “ᎢᏔᎵᏱ”
  • Cheyenne: “Italy”
  • Chinese: “Yìdàlì”
  • Chinese: “意大利”
  • Chinese: “意大利共和国”
  • Chinese: “意大利共和國”
  • Chinese: “義大利”
  • Chinese: “義大利共和國”
  • Choctaw: “Itali”
  • Choctaw: “Italiya”
  • Church Slavic: “Италїꙗ”
  • Church Slavic: “Италї”
  • Church Slavic: “Їталїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Итали”
  • Cornish: “Itali”
  • Corsican: “Italia”
  • Cree: “ᐃᑕᓖ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “İtaliya”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Italiye”
  • Croatian: “Italija”
  • Croatian: “Republika Italija”
  • Czech: “Itálie”
  • Czech: “Italská republika”
  • Dagbani: “Italia”
  • Danish: “Italien”
  • Dhivehi: “އިޓަލީވިލާތް”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İtalya”
  • Dinka: “Italia”
  • Dotyali: “इटाली”
  • Dutch: “Italiaanse Republiek”
  • Dutch: “Italie”
  • Dutch: “Italië”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Italië”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨི་ཊ་ལི”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨྀཊ་ལི་”
  • Eastern Mari: “Италий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايطاليا”
  • Emilian: “Itâglia”
  • Erzya: “Италия Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Itala Respubliko”
  • Esperanto: “Italio”
  • Esperanto: “Italujo”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Italio”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Italujo”
  • Estonian: “Itaalia Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Itaalia”
  • Ewe: “Italia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Italy”
  • Extremaduran: “Italia”
  • Extremaduran: “Itália”
  • Faroese: “Italia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Italy”
  • Fijian: “Itali”
  • Finnish: “Italia”
  • Finnish: “Italian tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Italitò”
  • French: “It.”
  • French: “Ita.”
  • French: “Ital.”
  • French: “Italie”
  • French: “la République italienne”
  • French: “République italienne”
  • Friulian: “Italie”
  • Fulah: “Itali”
  • Fulah: “Italiya”
  • Gagauz: “İtaliya”
  • Galician: “Italia”
  • Galician: “República Italiana”
  • Gan Chinese: “意大利”
  • Ganda: “Yitale”
  • Georgian: “იტალია”
  • German: “Italien”
  • German: “Italienische Republik”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Italy”
  • Gilaki: “ايتاليا”
  • Goan Konkani: “Italy”
  • Goan Konkani: “इटली”
  • Gorontalo: “Italia”
  • Gothic: “𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌻𐌹𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Ιταλία”
  • Greek: “Ιταλική Δημοκρατία”
  • Guarani: “Itália”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Itali”
  • Gujarati: “ઇટાલી”
  • Gujarati: “ઈટલી”
  • Haitian: “Itali”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yi-thai-li”
  • Hausa: “Italiya”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻĪkālia”
  • Hawaiian: “Italia”
  • Hawaiian: “Lepupalika o ʻĪkālia”
  • Hebrew: “איטליה”
  • Hindi: “इटली”
  • Hungarian: “Olaszország”
  • Iban: “Itali”
  • Icelandic: “Ítalía”
  • Ido: “Italia”
  • Igbo: “Italy”
  • Iloko: “Italia”
  • Inari Sami: “Italia täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Italia”
  • Indonesian: “Itali”
  • Indonesian: “Italia”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Italia”
  • Ingush: “Итали”
  • Interlingua: “Italia”
  • Interlingue: “Italia”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐃᑕᓕ”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐄᑕᓖ”
  • Inupiaq: “Italia”
  • Inupiaq: “Italy”
  • Irish: “an Iodáil”
  • Irish: “An Iodáil”
  • Irish: “Iodáil”
  • Italian: “il Bel Paese”
  • Italian: “Italia”
  • Italian: “Repubblica Italiana”
  • Italian: “RI”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Itali”
  • Japanese: “Itaria”
  • Japanese: “イタリア”
  • Japanese: “イタリア共和国”
  • Javanese: “Itali”
  • Javanese: “Italia”
  • Jèrriais: “Italie”
  • Kabardian: “Италэ”
  • Kabardian: “Урым”
  • Kabiyè: “Itaalii”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Itália”
  • Kabyle: “Ṭṭelyan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Italia”
  • Kalmyk: “Италмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಇಟಲಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Italiya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Италия”
  • Kashmiri: “اِٹلی”
  • Kashmiri: “اِٹَلی”
  • Kashubian: “Italskô”
  • Kazakh: “Италия”
  • Khmer: “ប្រទេសអ៊ីតាលី”
  • Khmer: “អ៊ីតាលី”
  • Kikuyu: “Italia”
  • Kikuyu: “Itari”
  • Kildin Sami: “Италия”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ubutaliyani”
  • Kirghiz: “Италия”
  • Kölsch: “Italie”
  • Komering: “Italia”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Италья”
  • Komi: “Италия”
  • Kongo: “Italia”
  • Korean: “이딸리아”
  • Korean: “이탈리아”
  • Korean: “이태리”
  • Kotava: “Italia”
  • Kurdish: “Îtalya”
  • Ladin: “Bel Paese”
  • Ladin: “Italy”
  • Ladin: “Repubblica italiana”
  • Ladin: “Republica taliana”
  • Ladin: “Talia”
  • Ladino: “Italia”
  • Lak: “Италия”
  • Lao: “ອິຕາລີ”
  • Lao: “ອີຕາລີ”
  • Latgalian: “Italeja”
  • Latin: “Italia”
  • Latvian: “Itālija”
  • Lezghian: “Италия”
  • Ligurian: “Italia”
  • Limburgan: “Italië”
  • Lingala: “Itali”
  • Lingala: “Italya”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Italia”
  • Literary Chinese: “義大利”
  • Lithuanian: “Italija”
  • Lithuanian: “Italijos Respublika”
  • Liv: “Itāļmō”
  • Livvi: “Itualii”
  • Lojban: “gugdrxitali”
  • Lojban: “italias”
  • Lombard: “Itàlia”
  • Low German: “Italien”
  • Low German: “Italiën”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Italska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Itali”
  • Lule Sami: “Itálla”
  • Luxembourgish: “Italieenesch Republik”
  • Luxembourgish: “Italien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Italia”
  • Macedonian: “Италија”
  • Madurese: “Italia”
  • Magahi: “इताली”
  • Maithili: “इटली”
  • Maithili: “इटाली”
  • Malagasy: “Italia”
  • Malay: “Itali”
  • Malay: “ايتالي”
  • Malayalam: “ഇറ്റലി”
  • Maltese: “Italja”
  • Maltese: “l-Italja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika Taljana”
  • Manchu: “ᡳ ᡩᠠ ᠯᡳᡳ ᠶᠠ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯏꯇꯥꯂꯤ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯏꯇꯥꯂꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Iddaal”
  • Manx: “Iddaalt”
  • Manx: “it”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght yn Iddaal”
  • Manx: “Republicca italiana”
  • Manx: “yn Iddaal”
  • Manx: “Yn Iddaal”
  • Maori: “Itāria”
  • Marathi: “इटली”
  • Mazanderani: “ایتالیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “É-dâi-lé”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ì-kok”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Í-tāi-lī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ì-tāi-lī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Italy”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tāi-gī-kok”
  • Minangkabau: “Itali”
  • Mingrelian: “იტალია”
  • Mirandese: “Eitália”
  • Moksha: “Италия”
  • Moksha: “Италиянь Республикась”
  • Mongolian: “Итали”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الطاليان”
  • Mossi: “Italy”
  • N'Ko: “ߌߕߊߟߌ߫”
  • Nauru: “Italy”
  • Nauru: “Itari”
  • Navajo: “Doohatsʼíí Yátiʼ Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Itaglie”
  • Neapolitan: “Italia”
  • Nepali: “इटली”
  • Nepali: “इटाली”
  • Newari: “इटाली”
  • Nias: “Italia”
  • North Ndebele: “Itali”
  • Northern Frisian: “Itaalien”
  • Northern Luri: “ایتالیا”
  • Northern Sami: “Itália dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Itália”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den italienske republikk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Italia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Italia”
  • Norwegian: “Italia”
  • Novial: “Italia”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Italy”
  • Nyanja: “Italia”
  • Obolo: “Itali”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estat italian”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Itàlia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Republica italiana”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “italya”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܝܛܠܝܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܺܝܛܰܠܝܰܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܜܠܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Eotol”
  • Oriya: “ଇଟାଲୀ”
  • Oromo: “Italy”
  • Oromo: “Xaaliyaanii”
  • Ossetian: “Итали”
  • Pa'o Karen: “အီတလီခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “इटली”
  • Pampanga: “Italy”
  • Pampanga: “Italya”
  • Pangasinan: “Italia”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਟਲੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Italia”
  • Pedi: “Italia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Idali”
  • Persian: “ایتالیا”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Idalje”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Italien”
  • Picard: “Italie”
  • Piemontese: “Italia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Italii”
  • Polish: “Włochy”
  • Pontic: “Ιταλία”
  • Portuguese: “Itália”
  • Portuguese: “Repubblica Italiana”
  • Portuguese: “República da Itália”
  • Portuguese: “República Italiana”
  • Pushto: “اټاليا”
  • Pushto: “ایټالیه”
  • Pushto: “اېټاليا”
  • Quechua: “Italia”
  • Quechua: “Italya Ripuwlika”
  • Quechua: “Italya”
  • Romagnol: “Itaglia”
  • Romagnol: “Itâglia”
  • Romanian: “Italia”
  • Romanian: “Republica Italiană”
  • Romansh: “Italia”
  • Rundi: “Italya”
  • Rundi: “Ubutaliyani”
  • Rundi: “Ubutariyano”
  • Russia Buriat: “Итаали”
  • Russia Buriat: “Итали”
  • Russian: “Италия”
  • Russian: “Итальянская Республика”
  • Rusyn: “Італія”
  • Sakizaya: “Italy”
  • Samoan: “Italia”
  • Samogitian: “Italėjė”
  • Sango: “Italïi”
  • Sango: “Italùii”
  • Sanskrit: “इटली:”
  • Sanskrit: “इटली”
  • Santali: “ᱤᱴᱟᱞᱤ”
  • Saraiki: “اٹلی”
  • Sardinian: “Itàlia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Italien”
  • Scots: “Italy”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Eadailt”
  • Serbian: “Italija”
  • Serbian: “Италија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Italija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဢီႇတႃႇလီႇ”
  • Shona: “Italy”
  • Shona: “Itari”
  • Sichuan Yi: “ꑴꄊꆺ”
  • Sicilian: “Italia”
  • Silesian: “Italijo”
  • Sindhi: “اٽلي”
  • Sinhala: “ඉතාලිය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Italia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Italia”
  • Slovak: “Talianska republika”
  • Slovak: “Taliansko”
  • Slovenian: “Italija”
  • Slovenian: “Italijanska republika”
  • Slovenian: “italijanski škorenj”
  • Slovenian: “Lepa dežela”
  • Somali: “Talyaani”
  • Somali: “Talyaaniga”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایتالیا”
  • South Ndebele: “I-Italy”
  • Southern Altai: “Италия”
  • Southern Sami: “Itaalia”
  • Southern Sotho: “Ithali”
  • Spanish: “Italia”
  • Spanish: “República Italiana”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Italiyanikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵟⴰⵍⵢⴰⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Itali”
  • Sundanese: “Italia”
  • Swahili: “Italia”
  • Swahili: “Uitaliani”
  • Swati: “INtaliyane”
  • Swedish: “Italien”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Italien”
  • Swiss German: “Italie”
  • Swiss German: “Italien”
  • Sylheti: “ꠁꠔꠣꠟꠤ”
  • Tachelhit: “Ṭṭalyan”
  • Tagalog: “Italya”
  • Tahitian: “’Itāria”
  • Tajik: “Италия”
  • Tajik: “Итолиё”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Италия”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Итолиё”
  • Talysh: “Italijə”
  • Tamil: “இத்தாலி”
  • Tamil: “இத்தாலியா”
  • Taroko: “Italy”
  • Tatar: “Италия”
  • Telugu: “ఇటలీ”
  • Tetum: “Itália”
  • Thai: “Italy”
  • Thai: “ประเทศอิตาลี”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐอิตาลี”
  • Thai: “อิตาลี”
  • Thai: “อิตาลี่”
  • Thai: “อิตาเลีย”
  • Tibetan: “དགྱིའི་དའ་རླིས”
  • Tibetan: “ཨི་ཀྲར་ལི་”
  • Tibetan: “ཨི་ཏ་ལི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሪፓብሊክ ኢጣልያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ኢጣልያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ኢጣልያዊት ሪፓብሊክ”
  • Tigrinya: “ጣሊያን”
  • Tok Pisin: “Itali”
  • Tok Pisin: “Italia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻĪtali”
  • Tsonga: “Ithali”
  • Tswana: “Italia”
  • Tulu: “ಇಟಲಿ”
  • Tumbuka: “Italy”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “إيطاليا”
  • Turkish: “İtalya Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “İtalya”
  • Turkish: “İtalyan Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkmen: “Italiýa”
  • Tuvinian: “Италия”
  • Twi: “Italy”
  • Tyap: “Italiya”
  • Tyap: “Italya”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Italiya”
  • Udmurt: “Италия”
  • Uighur: “ئىتالىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Італійська Республіка”
  • Ukrainian: “Італія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Italska”
  • Urdu: “اٹلی”
  • Urdu: “اطالیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Italiya”
  • Venda: “Italy”
  • Venetian: “Itałia”
  • Venetian: “Itàłia”
  • Venetian: “Repùblega Itałiana”
  • Veps: “Italii”
  • Veps: “Italijan Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Italia”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Italia”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Ý”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Ý”
  • Vietnamese: “I-ta-li-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Italia (Ý)”
  • Vietnamese: “Italia”
  • Vietnamese: “Italy”
  • Vietnamese: “Ý Đại Lợi”
  • Vietnamese: “Ý”
  • Vlaams: “Italioansche Republiek”
  • Vlaams: “Itoalië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Italiya”
  • Volapük: “Litaliyän”
  • Võro: “Itaalia”
  • Walloon: “Itåleye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Italya”
  • Welsh: “Yr Eidal”
  • Western Armenian: “Իտալիա”
  • Western Balochi: “ایتالیا”
  • Western Frisian: “Itaalje”
  • Western Frisian: “Italië”
  • Western Mari: “Италия”
  • Western Panjabi: “اٹلی”
  • Wolof: “Itaali”
  • Wolof: “Itali”
  • Wu Chinese: “意大利”
  • Xhosa: “IItaly”
  • Yakut: “Италия”
  • Yiddish: “איטאליע”
  • Yiddish: “איטאַליע”
  • Yoruba: “Itáli”
  • Yoruba: “Itálíà”
  • Yue Chinese: “意”
  • Yue Chinese: “意國”
  • Yue Chinese: “意大利”
  • Yue Chinese: “意大利共和國”
  • Yue Chinese: “義”
  • Yue Chinese: “義國”
  • Yue Chinese: “義大利”
  • Zeeuws: “Itâlië”
  • Zhuang: “Eiqdaihleih”
  • Zulu: “i-Italy”
  • Zulu: “iTaliya”
  • Zulu: “ITaliya”
  • “Italiah”
  • “Italiah Axkayotl”
  • “ma Itali”
  • “ma Italija”
  • “Италијанска република”
  • “Катеґория:Италия”

Europe: Highlights

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