ITALY

Italy is a country in southern Europe occupying a long peninsula extending into the Mediterranean Sea, bordered by France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia, and surrounding the two independent microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It was the center of the Roman Empire, whose legal, linguistic, and administrative legacy shaped the development of Europe and the wider Western world for centuries, and contains the highest concentration of UNESCO World Heritage Sites of any country on earth.

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