Italy
Kristin Kamenova
Niya
Ali Youssef
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Geography
 Located in Southern Europe
 Boot-Shaped Peninsula
 301,230 square kilometers (7,210 km2 is water)
 Coastline and border of 7,600 km on the Adriatic, Ionian and
Tyrrhenian seas and borders shared with France, Austria
Slovenia and Switzerland.
Culture
 Country with the highest # of UNESCO Sites
 Art, Literature, Architecture – magnificent & significant
 ~ 100 000 monuments of any sort
 Food, Fashion, Music, Sport, Science
Politics
 Parliamentary government based on a proportional voting
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Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic
President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano
The judicial system is based on modified versions of Roman
Law.
One of the Founding Members of the European Community,
the European Union and the North Atlantic treaty
Organization
Economy
 Market economy
 Unemployment rate 12.5% (and rising)
 Ninth-largest economy in the world and firth-largest in
Europe
 One of the founding members of G7, G8, and Eurozone
 Used to be a leading country in world trade and exports.
(not so much anymore)
History
 Findings date back some 200 000 years ago
 Modern humans – 40 000 yrs. ago
 Holy Roman Empire
 Ancient Rome
 Prehistoric Times, Middle Ages, Early & Late Modern Times,
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Fascist Regime & Republican Italy
Fascist Reign: Benito Mussolini
A Republic: in 1946
Latest: April 2013: new government
2014: February Renzi – the new Prime Minster
Demographics
 ~60.5 million people
 Density: 201/km^2
 Population: almost doubled in 20 C.
 Since 1980: large scale immigration
 Before: high birth rate
 Now: rapid population aging
 In 2000: 1 in 5 Italians – over 65 yrs. old
 In recent years: increase in birth rate
2,641,930
Lazio
Rome
11
Venice
259,771
Veneto
2
Milan
Lombardy
1,245,956
12
Verona
Veneto
3
Naples
Campania
960,521
13
Messina
Sicily
4
Turin
Piedmont
872,158
14
Padua
Veneto
5
Palermo
Sicily
655,604
15
Trieste
Friuli-Venezia
Giulia
6
Genoa
Liguria
583,089
16
Taranto
Apulia
252,240
Naples
Turin
242,018
204,656
201,195
198,714
Work Cited
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy