Italy

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Recently, India and Italy unveiled a bilateral military cooperation plan 2026-27 outlining the military engagements between the armed forces of both the countries.

About Italy

• Location: It is located in South-central Europe on the Apennine Peninsula.
• Bordering Countries: It shares its border with Switzerland and Austria in the north, Slovenia in the northeast and France in the northwest.  
  • Vatican City and San Marino are the two enclaved sovereign states within Italy.
• Maritime boundaries: It is bordered by the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Sea of Sicily in the south, the Ionian Sea in the southeast, the Ligurian Sea, and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the southwest.
• Capital City: Rome

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Geographical Features of Italy

• Terrain: It is mostly rugged and mountainous and has some plains, coastal lowlands.
• Major Rivers: Po (It is Italy’s longest river) and Adige
• Highest Point: Mont Blanc 
• Volcano: Italy is volcanic in origin, and a few of its many volcanoes are active, including Sicily’s Mt. Etna, Stromboli in the Aeolian Islands.
• Natural Resources: Coal, antimony, mercury, zinc, potash, barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorspar, feldspar, pyrite (sulfur), natural gas and crude oil reserves.

Source: DH