Geography Of Italy Research Paper

Italy has an interesting geography that is unique to it. For example, its absolute location is 42 N, 12 E. Italy borders France to the west, Switzerland and Austria to the north, and Slovakia to the east. Italy’s area is 301,340 square kilometers and is slightly larger than Arizona (Italy CIA). Italy has many rivers and the longest of them, the Po, stretches across the northern part of Italy, which is mostly plains. Italy has more than 1,000 bodies of water with many of them are small lakes. The largest lake in Italy is Lake Garda and has an area of 143 square miles. The Bolsena and Albano lakes are actually the craters of dormant volcanoes and are located in the central area of the country. Italy is prone to erupting volcanoes and …show more content…
The Gran Paradiso is the highest peak located entirely in Italian territory. But there are higher peaks in the Italian Alps (Italy CLIO). The natural resources are coal, mercury, zinc, potash, marble, barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorspar, feldspar, pyrite (sulfur), natural gas and crude oil reserves, fish, and arable land. 47.1% of the land is agricultural land. 31.4% of the land is forest. Other land use makes up 21.5% of the land. The Italy has an interesting geography that is unique to it. For example, its absolute location is 42 N, 12 E. Italy borders France to the west, Switzerland and Austria to the north, and Slovakia to the east. Italy’s area is 301,340 square kilometers and is slightly larger than Arizona (Italy CIA). Italy has many rivers and the longest of them, the Po, stretches across the northern part of Italy, which is mostly plains. Italy has more than 1,000 bodies of water with many of them are small lakes. The largest lake in Italy is Lake Garda and has an area of 143 square miles. The Bolsena and Albano lakes are actually the craters of dormant volcanoes and are located in the central area of the country. Italy is prone to erupting volcanoes and earthquakes because it sits on the converging point of the …show more content…
The GDP per capita is $36,300. 29.9% of the people in Italy are below the poverty line. Also, 11.4% of adults in Italy don’t have a job. Italy has the fourth most public debt in the world, which is 132.5% of the GDP (Italy CIA). The GDP is 2.2 trillion dollars (Italy CLIO). The currency of Italy is Euros. So, the GDP is 2,027,369,542,000 Euros. And the public debt would be 2,686,264,643,150 Euros. Italy exports engineering products, textiles and clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs, beverages, tobacco, minerals, and nonferrous metals to Germany, France, US, UK , Spain, and Switzerland. Italy imports engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy products, minerals and nonferrous metals, textiles and clothing, food, beverages, and tobacco from Germany, France, China, Netherlands, Spain, and Belgium (Italy CIA). In conclusion, Italy has an interesting and unique