Rome - Intro and Etymology
Channel: The Storyteller
Date: 2020-04-27

Rome - Intro and Etymology
Rome  is the capital city and a special comune of Italy  as well as the capital of the Lazio region. The city has been a major human settlement for over two millennia. It is the third most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. It is the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome, which has a population of 4,355,725 residents, thus making it the second or third most populous metropolitan city in Italy depending on definition. Vatican City  is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city; for this reason Rome has sometimes been defined as the capital of two states.


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* Text taken from the English Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome
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