About Italy
Italy is officially the Italian Republic and located on Italian Peninsula in the Southern Europe on two largest islands in Mediterranean Sea, Sardinia and Sicily. Italy shares its boundaries with France, Slovenia, Austria and Switzerland. Independent states of Vatican City and San Marino are also enclaves within Italian peninsula as well as Campione is an Italian exclave and is in the Switzerland. This county has been home of the European culture such as Etruscans and Romans,
 

later it was birthplace of University and Renaissance that began in the Tuscany and then spread all over the Europe. Capital of Italy is Rome; it was for the century's center of Western civilization. It possesses colonial empire from second half of nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century.

 

It is today a democratic republic and developed country with eighth-highest quality of the life indexes that rating in world. Italy is also founding member of European Union, and have signed "Treaty of Rome" in year 1957. Italy is also the founding member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization that is called as (NATO), Italy is member of G8 counties having with worlds largest nominal GDP, it is member of Organization for the Economic Co-operation and Development, European Council, World Trade Organization, Western European Union and Central European initiative. Italy is Schengen state and has world's 7 th largest budget for defense

 

Italy shares the nuclear weapons of NATO; in 2007 it began 2 years term as non-permanent member of United Nations Security Council. It was founding member of European Community that is now European Union. Italy admitted to United Nations in year 1955 and is member with strong support of North Italic Treaty, Organization for the Economic Development. Italy also supports United Nation with its international security; it developed troops in the support of UN for peacekeeping mission in the Mozambique, Somalia and East Timor, Italy also provides support for the UN and NATO operations in the Kosovo, Bosnia and Albania.

 
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