Italy - Country Code 39
IDD Code: 00
Country Code: 39
ISO: IT
ISO3: ITA
Helpful Information About Italy
Time
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Capital: Rome
Time Zone
UTC+01:00
Time Difference
Rome, Italy is ()
Daylight Savings Time
Italy does not follow DST
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City Calling Codes
| City | Calling Code |
|---|---|
| Bari | +39-80 |
| Bergamo | +39-35 |
| Bologna | +39-51 |
| Brescia | +39-30 |
| Cagliari | +39-70 |
| Catania | +39-95 |
| Ferrara | +39-532 |
| Florence | +39-55 |
| Foggia | +39-881 |
| Forli | +39-543 |
| Genoa | +39-10 |
| Latina | +39-773 |
| Livorno | +39-586 |
| Messina | +39-90 |
| Milan | +39-2 |
| Modena | +39-59 |
| Monza | +39-39 |
| Napoli | +39-81 |
| Novara | +39-321 |
| Padova | +39-49 |
| Palermo | +39-91 |
| Parma | +39-521 |
| Perugia | +39-75 |
| Pescara | +39-85 |
| Prato | +39-574 |
| Ravenna | +39-544 |
| Reggio di Calabria | +39-965 |
| Rimini | +39-541 |
| Rome | +39-6 |
| Salerno | +39-89 |
| Sassari | +39-79 |
| Syracuse | +39-931 |
| Taranto | +39-99 |
| Terni | +39-744 |
| Torino | +39-11 |
| Trieste | +39-40 |
| Venice | +39-41 |
| Verona | +39-45 |
| Vicenza | +39-444 |
About Italy Country NameItaly
ContinentEurope
Lat/Long41.87194000, 12.56738000
BackgroundItaly became a nation-state in 1861 when the regional states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI established a Fascist dictatorship. His alliance with Nazi Germany led to Italy's defeat in World War II. A democratic republic replaced the monarchy in 1946 and economic revival followed. Italy is a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community (EEC). It has been at the forefront of European economic and political unification, joining the Economic and Monetary Union in 1999. Persistent problems include sluggish economic growth, high youth and female unemployment, organized crime, corruption, and economic disparities between southern Italy and the more prosperous north.
Population62,007,540 (July 2016 est.)
LanguagesItalian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)
ReligionsChristian 80% (overwhelmingly Roman Catholic with very small groups of Jehovah's Witnesses and Protestants), Muslim (about 800,000 to 1 million), atheist and agnostic 20%
Ethnic GroupsItalian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south)
Economy
EconomyItaly has a diversified economy, which is divided into a developed industrial north, dominated by private companies, and a less-developed, highly subsidized, agricultural south, where unemployment is higher. The Italian economy is driven in large part by the manufacture of high-quality consumer goods produced by small and medium-sized enterprises, many of them family-owned. Italy also has a sizable underground economy, which by some estimates accounts for as much as 17% of GDP. These activities are most common within the agriculture, construction, and service sectors.
Italy is the third-largest economy in the euro zone, but its exceptionally high public debt and structural impediments to growth have rendered it vulnerable to scrutiny by financial markets. Public debt has increased steadily since 2007, reaching 133% of GDP in 2016. Investor concerns about Italy and the broader euro-zone crisis eased in 2013, bringing down Italy's borrowing costs on sovereign government debt from euro-era records. The government still faces pressure from investors and European partners to sustain its efforts to address Italy's longstanding structural impediments to growth, such as labor market inefficiencies, a sluggish judicial system, and a weak banking sector. Italy’s economy returned to modest growth in late 2014 for the first time since late 2011. In 2015-16, Italy’s economy grew 0.7% each year. In 2016, overall unemployment was 11.7%, but youth unemployment remains high at 37.1%.
Italy is the third-largest economy in the euro zone, but its exceptionally high public debt and structural impediments to growth have rendered it vulnerable to scrutiny by financial markets. Public debt has increased steadily since 2007, reaching 133% of GDP in 2016. Investor concerns about Italy and the broader euro-zone crisis eased in 2013, bringing down Italy's borrowing costs on sovereign government debt from euro-era records. The government still faces pressure from investors and European partners to sustain its efforts to address Italy's longstanding structural impediments to growth, such as labor market inefficiencies, a sluggish judicial system, and a weak banking sector. Italy’s economy returned to modest growth in late 2014 for the first time since late 2011. In 2015-16, Italy’s economy grew 0.7% each year. In 2016, overall unemployment was 11.7%, but youth unemployment remains high at 37.1%.
GDP$1.852 trillion (2016 est.)
CurrencyEuro
Communications
Internet TLD.it
Internet Users40.559 million
Land Lines20,236,305
Mobile Phones92.52 million
Broadcast MediaTwo Italian media giants dominate - the publicly owned Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) with 3 national terrestrial stations and privately owned Mediaset with 3 national terrestrial stations; a large number of private stations and Sky Italia - a satellite TV network; RAI operates 3 AM/FM nationwide radio stations; about 1,300 commercial radio stations (2007)