- National name Repubblica Italiana/Italian Republic
- Area 301,300 sq km/116,331 sq mi
- Capital Rome
- Currency euro (lira until 2002)
- Population 57,253,000 (2005 est)
- Language Italian (official), German and Ladin (in the north), French (in the Valle d'Aosta region), Greek and Albanian (in the south)
- Religion Roman Catholic 98%
- Time difference GMT +1
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