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Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma, pronounced ⓘ) is the capital city of Italy.It is also the capital of the Lazio region, the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, and a special comune (municipality) named Comune di Roma Capitale.
After the end of World War II and the fall of the Fascist regime Lazio and Italy saw rapid economic growth, in particular in Rome. Today, Lazio is a large center of services and international trade, industry, public services and tourism, supported by an extensive network of transport infrastructures thanks to its geographical position in the ...
The earliest known Latium was the country of the Latini, a tribe whose recognised center was a large, dormant volcano, Mons Albanus ("the Alban Mount", today's Colli Albani), 20 kilometres (12 mi) to the southeast of Rome, 64 kilometres (40 mi) in circumference.
The Rome metropolitan area is a statistical area that is centred on the city of Rome, Italy. It consists of a part of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital (formerly known as the Province of Rome) and a single comune, Aprilia, in the neighbouring Province of Latina. Both provinces are part of the region of Lazio. The metropolitan area does not ...
The Mediterranean Sea, between Africa and Europe The Atlantic Ocean around the plate boundaries (text is in Finnish). The African and European mainlands are non-contiguous, and the delineation between these continents is thus merely a question of which islands are to be associated with which continent.
Rome (French:) was a department of the First French Empire in present-day Italy. Its capital was Rome . It was formed on 17 May 1809, when most of the Papal States were annexed by France, and was first known as the Département du Tibre (after the Tiber river) before being renamed on 17 February 1810.
The most visited regions are Veneto, Tuscany, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, and Lazio. [310] Rome is the third most visited city in Europe, and 12th in the world, with 9.4 million arrivals in 2017. [311] Venice and Florence are among the world's top 100 destinations.
The list below includes all entities falling even partially under any of the various common definitions of Europe, geographical or political.Fifty generally recognised sovereign states, Kosovo with limited, but substantial, international recognition, and four largely unrecognised de facto states with limited to no recognition have territory in Europe and/or membership in international European ...