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Italy: map and facts
Italy is in Southern Europe. It has about 58.9 million people (2025), the 25th largest population. It covers 302,070 km², the 71st largest by area. That is about 195 people per km². Its highest point is Mont Blanc, at 4,806 m. The longest river on its map is the Po, 652 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 58,915,656 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 302,070 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Rome
- Highest point: Mont Blanc, 4,806 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 31.8% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Italy, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Po: 652 km
- Adige: 410 km
- Tiber: 405 km
- Adda: 313 km
- Oglio: 280 km
- Tanaro: 276 km
- Ticino: 248 km
- Arno: 241 km
- Piave: 220 km
- Reno: 211 km
Also on the map: Volturno, Ofanto, Dora Baltea, Simeto, Varaita, Sacco, Mincio and Salto.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Mont Blanc: 4,806 m (its highest point)
- Dufourspitze: 4,634 m
- Matterhorn: 4,478 m
- Mount Etna: 3,403 m
- Corno Grande: 2,912 m
- Monte Viglio: 2,156 m
- Punta la Marmora: 1,834 m
- Mount Vesuvius: 1,281 m
Mountain ranges: Alps, Apennines and Calabrian Apennines.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Riviera.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): farmland 33.5%, savanna 15.7%, wooded savanna 11.6%, deciduous broadleaf forest 11.3%, grassland 9.9%, towns and cities 4.6%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): mountains 51.2%, hills 28.4%, plains 18.5%, high mountains 1.4%.
Forests covered 31.8% of its land in 2024, up from 25.8% in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #5 in silica sand among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
Italy shares land borders with Austria, France, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland and Vatican on this map.
In the game you can zoom into its rivers, mountains, minerals, terrain and forests. Free, with no sign-up.
Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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