Facts about Italy
- President:Giorgio Napolitano
- Prime Minister: Mario Monti
- Land area: 113,521 sq. mi. (294,019 sq. km.)
- Total area: 116,305 sq. mi. (301,230 sq. km.)
- Capital and largest city: Rome-3,550,900 (metro. area)
- National name: Repubblica Italiana
- Literacy rate: 99%
- Languages: Italian (official); German, French, and Slovene-speaking minorites
- Religions: Roman Catholic approx. 90%, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic
- Ethnicity/Race: Italian (includes small clusters of German, French, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian and Greek