Roma

Rome is a city and special comune ("Roma Capitale") in Italy. Rome is the capital of Italy, the capital of Lazio and the principal town of the Province of Rome. With over 2.7 million residents in 1,285.3 km2 (496.3 sq mi), it is also the country's largest and most populated city and comune. The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy. Rome's history spans two and a half thousand years. It was the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, which was the dominant power in Western Europe and the lands bordering the Mediterranean for over seven hundred years from the 1st century BC until the 7th century AD and the city is regarded as one of the birthplaces of western civilization.