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What is the approximate population of Italy?

58 million.

Italy shares its borders with five nations among them Switzerland and France. Can you name one of the other three?

Austria & Slovenia & San Marino.

Which of the following islands does not belong to Italy?

Corsica. Corsica belongs to France.

What is the name of the mountain range that runs the entire length of Italy?

Apennines & Apennine.

What is the name of the mountain range that forms the northern border?

Alps.

In terms of population, Rome is the largest city in Italy. What is the next most populated city?

Milan. Rome has a population of over 2.6 million, Milan is next at over 1.3 million. Naples has over 1 million,Turin has just over 900,000 and Florence has just over 400,000.

Italy plays a role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO). True or False?

True. True. Due to its strategic geographic position, since World War II, Italy has played a fairly important role in NATO.

What is the highest mountain found entirely in Italian territory?

Gran Paradiso. Gran Paradiso at 13,323 ft. and located in northwest Italy.

San Marino is a province of Italy. True or false?

False. San Marino is a country on its own, the world's smallest republic located in north-central Italy.

Italy was at one time ruled by a monarchy. True or false?

True. True. Italy was proclaimed a kingdom in 1861 with King Victor Emmanuel II as its ruler.