Italy

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Italy. Italy is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. 25 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 4.8°E to 20.4°E and 34.4°N to 48.1°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Italy is filled. The 22 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Italy. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

25 parts of Italy in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 41.3°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 4.8°E–20.4°E, 34.4°N–48.1°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Italy. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    2 sources from Italyin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • Il Sole 24 Ore
    • la Repubblica

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for Italy: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    Italian Parliament ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    We couldn't reach the weather service just now, so no conditions are shown. This is not a report that conditions are calm.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Rome, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:55 AM · sunset 7:11 PM12h 16m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    ITAuncited
    Driving side
    rightuncited
    Mains voltage
    230 Vcited
    Capital
    Romecited
    Official language
    Italiancited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type F (Schuko), Type Lcited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    governo.it ↗Recorded by us, not by the source: Presidency of the Council of Ministers — attested by the site or its responsible agency, recorded 2026-08-07. We have not tested whether it loads.Italy's executive sits on a plain .it host; its ministries use the .gov.it namespace.cited
    Tourism board
    italia.it ↗Not a government portal.

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Italy: the UN's 2025 estimate is 58,915,656 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 4.2 fewer an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    58,915,656 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    58,952,704 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 4.2 fewer an hour (-37,073 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    58,915,6562025
    GDP
    2,551,556,954,1002025
    GDP per capita
    43,3092025
    Life expectancy at birth
    84.0 years2024
    Exports
    32.2%2025
    Imports
    30.3%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  9. World Heritage Sites

    62 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. rock drawings in Valcamonica · inscribed 1979
    2. Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura · inscribed 1980 · shared with Vatican City
    3. Santa Maria delle Grazie · inscribed 1980
    4. Historic Centre of Florence · inscribed 1982
    5. Venice and its Lagoon · inscribed 1987
    6. Piazza del Duomo, Pisa · inscribed 1987
    7. Historic Centre of San Gimignano · inscribed 1990
    8. The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera · inscribed 1993
    9. City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto · inscribed 1994
    10. Historic Centre of Siena · inscribed 1995
    11. Historic Centre of Naples · inscribed 1995
    12. Crespi d'Adda · inscribed 1995
    13. Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta · inscribed 1995
    14. Castel del Monte · inscribed 1996
    15. The Trulli of Alberobello · inscribed 1996
    16. Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna · inscribed 1996
    17. Historic Centre of the City of Pienza · inscribed 1996
    18. 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex · inscribed 1997
    19. Residences of the Royal House of Savoy · inscribed 1997
    20. Padova botanical garden · inscribed 1997
    21. Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) · inscribed 1997
    22. Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena · inscribed 1997
    23. Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata · inscribed 1997
    24. Amalfi Coast · inscribed 1997
    25. Valle dei Templi · inscribed 1997
    26. Villa Romana del Casale · inscribed 1997
    27. Su Nuraxi di Barumini · inscribed 1997
    28. The Dolomites · inscribed 1998
    29. Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia · inscribed 1998
    30. Historic Centre of Urbino · inscribed 1998
    31. Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula · inscribed 1998
    32. Hadrian's Villa · inscribed 1999
    33. Verona · inscribed 2000

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    34. Aeolian Islands · inscribed 2000
    35. Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites · inscribed 2000
    36. Villa d'Este · inscribed 2001
    37. Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto · inscribed 2002
    38. Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy · inscribed 2003
    39. Monte San Giorgio site fossils · inscribed 2003 · shared with Switzerland
    40. Val d'Orcia · inscribed 2004
    41. Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia · inscribed 2004
    42. Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica · inscribed 2005
    43. Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli · inscribed 2006
    44. Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe · inscribed 2007 · shared with Albania, Austria and 15 more countries
    45. Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes · inscribed 2008 · shared with Switzerland
    46. Mantua and Sabbioneta · inscribed 2008
    47. Longobards in Italy, Places of Power · inscribed 2011
    48. prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps · inscribed 2011 · shared with Austria, Switzerland and 3 more countries
    49. Etna Park · inscribed 2013
    50. Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany · inscribed 2013
    51. The Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato · inscribed 2014
    52. Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale · inscribed 2015
    53. The Venetian Works of defence between 15th and 17th centuries · inscribed 2017 · shared with Croatia, Montenegro
    54. Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century · inscribed 2018
    55. Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene · inscribed 2019
    56. The Great Spa Towns of Europe · inscribed 2021 · shared with Austria, Belgium and 4 more countries
    57. Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles · inscribed 2021
    58. porticoes of Bologna · inscribed 2021
    59. Evaporitic Karst and Caves of Northern Apennines · inscribed 2023
    60. Via Appia. Regina Viarum · inscribed 2024

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    61. domus de janas · inscribed 2025
    62. The system of Italian-style condominio theatres of the 18th and 19th centuries in Central Italy · inscribed 2026

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 112
    • 113listed as: police
    • 115listed as: fire department
    • 118listed as: emergency medical services

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    EUR

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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