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Italy, placed right in the middle of the Mediterranean sea, is a 56 million people country formed by a main continental peninsula almost completely surrounded by the sea, plus two large islands (Sicilia and Sardegna) and a great number of smaller islands, one of which (Lampedusa) is placed almost in front of Libya and far beyond the island of Malta.

The main land is approximately more than 1000 kilometres long and I think that his "boot" shape is definitely well know by everyone.

Also Italians use sometimes to nick-name their country as "Lo stivale" (The boot, in Italian).

As every other Italian, we are of course proud of our messy, but still beautiful town. Rome is since 1870 the capital of Italy.