This week in #geoweirdness we return to Europe to examine the geographic peculiarities of Italy 🇮🇹
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This week in #geoweirdness we return to Europe to examine the geographic peculiarities of Italy 🇮🇹
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This week in #geoweirdness we return to Europe to examine the geographic peculiarities of Italy 🇮🇹
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2/ So what’s geoweird about Italy 🇮🇹 you ask? First up, Italy entirely contains not one, but two other independent countries: The Vatican 🇻🇦 and San Marino 🇸🇲 #geoweirdness
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2/ So what’s geoweird about Italy 🇮🇹 you ask? First up, Italy entirely contains not one, but two other independent countries: The Vatican 🇻🇦 and San Marino 🇸🇲 #geoweirdness
3/ Part of 🇮🇹 Italy’s border with France 🇫🇷 runs along Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Europe 🏔️⛷️
The exact ownership of the summit has been disputed for centuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc#Ownership_of_the_summitHappily, the border "dispute" is pretty low stress, but occasionally there is a bit of noise:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/italy-reignites-mont-blanc-border-dispute-with-france -
3/ Part of 🇮🇹 Italy’s border with France 🇫🇷 runs along Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Europe 🏔️⛷️
The exact ownership of the summit has been disputed for centuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc#Ownership_of_the_summitHappily, the border "dispute" is pretty low stress, but occasionally there is a bit of noise:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/italy-reignites-mont-blanc-border-dispute-with-france4/ Italy 🇮🇹 has one enclave outside its main territory: the village of Campione d'Italia is entirely surrounded by Switzerland 🇨🇭
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campione_d%27Italia
Historically, Campione d'Italia had been outside of the 🇪🇺 European Union customs zone, but in 2020 that changed. Previously it had IT and CH postal codes, but now only the IT system is valid. But they still use the CH phone systems.
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4/ Italy 🇮🇹 has one enclave outside its main territory: the village of Campione d'Italia is entirely surrounded by Switzerland 🇨🇭
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campione_d%27Italia
Historically, Campione d'Italia had been outside of the 🇪🇺 European Union customs zone, but in 2020 that changed. Previously it had IT and CH postal codes, but now only the IT system is valid. But they still use the CH phone systems.
5/ Italy 🇮🇹 expanded in 1954 when the Free Territory of Trieste was dissolved and its territory split between Italy and Yugoslavia (today Slovenia 🇸🇮 and Croatia 🇭🇷) Legally this was not confirmed until 1975.
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5/ Italy 🇮🇹 expanded in 1954 when the Free Territory of Trieste was dissolved and its territory split between Italy and Yugoslavia (today Slovenia 🇸🇮 and Croatia 🇭🇷) Legally this was not confirmed until 1975.
6/ 🇮🇹 Italy's internal organization is ... complicato.
The country is subdivided into 20 regions, but five have a higher level autonomy than others.
Regions are sub-divided into provinces (but not always). There are 80 ordinary provinces, 2 autonomous provinces, 4 regional decentralization entities, 6 free municipal consortia, and 14 metropolitan cities, as well as the Aosta Valley region 🤯
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6/ 🇮🇹 Italy's internal organization is ... complicato.
The country is subdivided into 20 regions, but five have a higher level autonomy than others.
Regions are sub-divided into provinces (but not always). There are 80 ordinary provinces, 2 autonomous provinces, 4 regional decentralization entities, 6 free municipal consortia, and 14 metropolitan cities, as well as the Aosta Valley region 🤯
7/ You might not know there is a province of Italy 🇮🇹 where German is the official language: South Tyrol (known as Südtirol in de, Alto Adige in it).
Most places there have two (or more) names. A few years back we interviewed local mapper Martin Raifer @tyr about mapping in the area
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/155402204823/openstreetmap-in-south-tyrol-martin-raifer
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7/ You might not know there is a province of Italy 🇮🇹 where German is the official language: South Tyrol (known as Südtirol in de, Alto Adige in it).
Most places there have two (or more) names. A few years back we interviewed local mapper Martin Raifer @tyr about mapping in the area
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/155402204823/openstreetmap-in-south-tyrol-martin-raifer
8/ The OpenStreetMap community is very active in Italy 🇮🇹
We had the chance to interview some leading members of the community several years back (as part of our long-running series of blog interviews with OSM communities around the world)
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/125203071033/country-profile-openstreetmap-in-italy
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8/ The OpenStreetMap community is very active in Italy 🇮🇹
We had the chance to interview some leading members of the community several years back (as part of our long-running series of blog interviews with OSM communities around the world)
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/125203071033/country-profile-openstreetmap-in-italy
9/ As always we hope you enjoyed our look at the #geoweirdness of Italy 🇮🇹 Thanks for reading (and sharing).
We have many more threads about specific countries, border disputes, geocoding, etc listed on our blog. Most still on twitter, but over time we are moving them here to mastodon. Enjoy.
https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads
We'll feature more countries in coming weeks and months
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9/ As always we hope you enjoyed our look at the #geoweirdness of Italy 🇮🇹 Thanks for reading (and sharing).
We have many more threads about specific countries, border disputes, geocoding, etc listed on our blog. Most still on twitter, but over time we are moving them here to mastodon. Enjoy.
https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads
We'll feature more countries in coming weeks and months
10/ Apologies almost forgot this delightful 🇮🇹 Italy-focused geo project by @bndktgrs that you should all check out.
He attempts to answer the ultimate geospatial question: "Do all roads lead to Rome?"
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10/ Apologies almost forgot this delightful 🇮🇹 Italy-focused geo project by @bndktgrs that you should all check out.
He attempts to answer the ultimate geospatial question: "Do all roads lead to Rome?"
11/ one addition to this thread - we now also have a #geoweirdness thread for the Vatican 🇻🇦, including the border dispute with Italy 🇮🇹
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