What is Central Italy?
{{infobox settlement |name=Central Italy |native_name=Italia centrale |native_name_lang=it |image_map=File:Italia centrale.svg |map_alt=Map of Italy, highlighting Central Italy |subdivision_type=Country |subdivision_name=Italy |parts_type=[[Regions of Italy|Regions]] |parts_style=list |parts=[[#Regions|List]] |p1={{Flagicon|Lazio}} [[Lazio]] |p2={{Flagicon|Marche}} [[Marche]] |p3={{Flagicon|Toscana}} [[Toscana]] |p4={{Flagicon|Umbria}} [[Umbria]] |blank_name=Languages |blank_info=&nbsp; |blank1_name=&nbsp;– Official language |blank1_info=[[Italian language|Italian]] |blank3_name=&nbsp;– Other common languages |blank3_info={{unbulleted list |[[Central Italian]] |[[Tuscan dialect|Tuscan]] }} |area_total_km2=58052 |population_est=12067524 |population_footnotes=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.demo.istat.it/bilmens2016gen/index.html|title=Statistiche demografiche ISTAT|website=www.demo.istat.it|access-date=2019-09-23|archive-date=2017-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127222141/http://demo.istat.it/bilmens2016gen/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> |pop_est_as_of=2016 est. }} '''Central Italy''' ({{lang-it|'''Italia centrale'''}} or just {{lang|it|'''Centro'''}}) is one of the five official statistical regions of [[Italy]] used by the [[Istituto Nazionale di Statistica|National Institute of Statistics]] (ISTAT), a [[Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics|NUTS1]] level region. ==Geography== Central Italy borders to the northwest with [[Liguria]] ([[Northwest Italy]]); to the northeast with [[San Marino]] and [[Emilia-Romagna]] ([[Northeast Italy]]); to the south with [[Abruzzo]], [[Molise]] and [[Campania]] ([[South Italy]]). The [[Adriatic Sea]] is to the east and the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] and the [[Ligurian Sea]] to the west. {{Adjacent communities|width=auto |Centre = Central Italy |North = |Northeast = [[San Marino]], [[Emilia-Romagna]] |East = [[Adriatic Sea]] |Southeast = [[Abruzzo]], [[Molise]] |South = |Southwest = [[Campania]] |West = [[Ligurian Sea]], [[Tyrrheni