Travel & technology
Electric power
- Plug shape
- Voltage
- 230V, 50Hz
Phone dialing
- Code to call Italy
- +39
What every visitor should know about Italy:
- Money
- The currency is the Euro (EUR). 1 euro is worth about US$1.44.
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 3 out of 5 (Average)
Areas of concern:
- Mugging
- Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
- Armed robbery is rare but occurs
- Carjacking
- Capital
- Rome
- Tap water
- Excellent. Water from the tap is safe to drink.
Italy facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 58,126,212
- Language
- Italian (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)
- Ethnicity
- Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south)
Economy
- GDP
- US$31,000 (per capita)
- Income equality
- High