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Italy, lies in the south of Europe, whose full name is Republic of Italy, whose proportion is 301,300 square kilometer, which is about 1/30 of Chinese proportion. The coastline is more than 7 thousand kilometer altogether. And it has more than 57 million of population.
Italian territory is mainly in the Apennines peninsula of the Mediterranean in Europe, the Northwest- leave and form narrow and long, a western one Sadinia once visited placeSardinia of kingdom by southeast, Sicily of the south is
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another large island of Italy country, read this island with native country of Italy, just like a foot is playing football . As a famous country of tourism, Italy has his unique cityscape and natural scenes. There are also long history and culture, which make Italy be the most famous tourism place all over the world.
Alps lay on the north of Italy, so the mountain area and hills have covered 80% of the whole area. Although Italy is in the temperate zone, the climate of all parts is widely different because of the topography is narrow and long and mountains lying in the Mediterranean. The northern area is cold in winter, and the average temperature on Plain of Po River is zero degree in January, but in the Alps mountain area the temperature can drop to minus 20 degrees centigrade, some mountain peak even snow perennially. The southern area, besides landlocked mountain area, it is 10 degrees above zero that the temperature on average in January can reach. The whole Italy of summer, besides higher mountain area above sea more level, the temperature on average is in 24-25 degrees. The north is a continental climate in the temperate zone, the peninsula and island of the south belong to the subtropical Mediterranean type climate, hit rainy season 10 annual, November come of southern areas , and come in annual March and April continuously
The Italian time is one hour early than the universal time and is 7 hours later than Beijing time. Its summer time begins on the last Sunday of every March and ends on the last Sunday in September.
The administrative division is equivalent to the calling " the large district " of " province " of China; there are 20 large districts in all in the whole country. Lazio is the large district that Rome belongs to; the provincial capital of the large district of Lombardy is Milan.
Capital Rome is the root of the ancient kingdom of Rome, whose population is about 2,830,000. From the 8th century, Rome has already become the center of Catholicism. And now, it is the political, cultural and transporting center. Milan is the largest industrial and commercial city with a population of 1,490,000. There are other famous cities such as Venice, Florence, Naples, Torino, Genoa, Palermo and so on. |
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