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DEMOGRAPHICS & HISTORY

Europe

Italy

Facts & Figures

• Area: 116,348 square miles
• Capital: Rome

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in towns near the borders of Austria, France, and Slovenia.

• Ethnicity: Italian, with small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the
north and Albanian- and Greek-Italians in the south

• Location: Italy is bordered by France, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, the Ligurian Sea,
the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ionian Sea, the Adriatic Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea.

• Geography: Italy lies in southern Europe and includes the Mediterranean islands of
Siciliy, Sardinia, and several other small islands. The region of Tuscany is a blend of
rugged hills, fertile valleys, and long stretches of sandy beaches that curve along the west
coast of central Italy and fringe the pine-forested coastal plain of the Maremma.

• Population: 62,137,802 (July 2017 est.)

• Religions: Christian 80% (overwhelming Roman Catholic), Atheists and Agnostics 20%,
Muslims estimated at less than 2%

• Time Zone: Italy is on Central European Time, six hours ahead of U.S. EST. When it
is 6am in Washington D.C., it is noon in Rome. Daylight Saving Time begins the last
weekend in March and ends the last weekend in October.

National Holidays: Italy

In addition to the holidays listed below, 05/01 Labor Day
Italy celebrates a number of national
06/02 Republic Day
holidays that follow a lunar calendar,
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traveling during these holidays, please visit
www.timeanddate.com/holidays. 11/01 All Saints’ Day

01/01 New Year’s Day 12/08 Feast of the Immaculate Conception

01/06 Epiphany 12/25 Christmas Day

04/25 Liberation Day 12/26 St. Stephen’s Day

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