Editing Tourism in Italy (section)

=== Geography ===
[[File:Italy relief location map.jpg|thumb|[[Topography|Topographic]] map of Italy]]
{{main|Geography of Italy}}
[[Italy]] is located in [[southern Europe]] and it is also considered a part of [[western Europe]],<ref name="DGACM">{{Cite web |url=https://www.un.org/Depts/DGACM/RegionalGroups.shtml |title=UNITED NATIONS DGACM |website=www.un.org}}</ref> between latitudes [[35th parallel north|35°]] and [[47th parallel north|47° N]], and longitudes [[6th meridian east|6°]] and [[19th meridian east|19° E]]. To the north, Italy borders [[Switzerland]], [[France]], [[Austria]] and [[Slovenia]] and is roughly delimited by the [[Alps|Alpine watershed]], enclosing the [[Po Valley]] and the [[Venetian Plain]]. To the south, it consists of the entirety of the [[Italian Peninsula]] crossed by the [[Apennines]] and the two [[Mediterranean islands]] of [[Sicily]] and [[Sardinia]], in addition to [[List of islands of Italy|many smaller islands]]. The sovereign states of [[San Marino]] and the [[Vatican City]] are [[Enclave and exclave|enclaves]] within Italy,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/521449/San-Marino |title=San Marino |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |year=2012 |access-date=1 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17994868 |title=Vatican country profile |date=2018 |work=BBC News|access-date=24 August 2018 |language=en-GB}}</ref> while [[Campione d'Italia]] is an Italian [[Enclave and exclave|exclave]] in Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Democracy in Figures|url=http://demo.istat.it/index_e.php|website=[[Italian National Institute of Statistics]]|access-date=28 May 2021|archive-date=26 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126215040/http://demo.istat.it/index_e.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Italy is part of the [[Northern Hemisphere]]. The country's total area is {{convert|301230|km2|0|abbr=out}}, of which {{convert|294020|km2|0|abbr=on}} is land and {{convert|7210|km2|0|abbr=on}} is water.<ref name=Area>{{Cite web |url=https://www.istat.it/it/archivio/137001 |title=Principali dimensioni geostatistiche e grado di urbanizzazione del Paese |date=30 October 2014 |website=www.istat.it}}</ref> Including islands, Italy has a coastline of {{convert|7,900|km|abbr=on}} on the [[Adriatic Sea]], [[Ionian Sea]], [[Tyrrhenian Sea]], [[Ligurian Sea]], [[Sea of Sardinia]] and [[Strait of Sicily]], and borders shared with France ({{convert|488|km|0|abbr=on}}), Austria ({{convert|430|km|0|abbr=on}}), Slovenia ({{convert|232|km|0|abbr=on}}) and Switzerland ({{convert|740|km|0|abbr=on}}). San Marino ({{convert|39|km|0|abbr=on}}) and Vatican City ({{convert|3.2|km|1|abbr=on}}), both enclaves, account for the remainder.<ref name=Area />