Map of Italy

Italy is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 42.8° N, 12.8° E. It shares land borders with 6 countries — Austria, France, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland and Vatican City — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Italy is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Italy shares land frontiers with the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Italy covers about 301,336 km² (116,346 sq mi). That makes it the 72nd-largest country in the world by area and the 10th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 35 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 58,927,633, the 25th-largest in the world and the 5th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 8.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Italy has an average population density of about 196 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 5th by population and 10th by area.

The seat of government is Rome, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official languages are Italian and Catalan. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Italy carries the ISO country codes IT and ITA, dials on the international calling code +39 and uses the .it internet domain.

Italy shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are France (capital Paris, about 66,351,959 people), Austria (capital Vienna, about 9,200,931 people), Switzerland (capital Bern, about 9,082,848 people), Slovenia (capital Ljubljana, about 2,130,638 people), San Marino (capital City of San Marino, about 34,132 people) and Vatican City (capital Vatican City, about 882 people).

By area, Italy is larger than 5 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 42.8° N, 12.8° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Italy within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Rome. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Italy lies about 4,754 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Italy keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official languages are Italian and Catalan, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +39 and websites commonly use the .it internet domain.

In short, Italy is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is Rome. Italy has a population of about 58,927,633 and covers around 301,336 km² (116,346 sq mi), ranking it 25th in the world by population and 72nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Italy.

The flag of Italy is composed of three equal vertical bands of green, white and red.

The flag of Italy is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.