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Latium / Lazio (around Rome) Description
Region: Latium/Lazio

Provinces: Roma (ROMA), Frosinone (FR), Latina (LT), Rieti (R) and Viterbo (VB)

Area: 17,203 sq.km/6,640 sq.mi

Population: 5,156,100

Situation

The historic area and the present-day region of Latium occupies the west side of the Central Apennines, extending southwest from the Monti Sabini to the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea between the mouths of the River Chiarone in the north and the Garigliano in the south. The center of Latium is the densely populated city of Rome.

Montains and lakes

Most of the region is occupied by four volcanic massifs of the Quaternary era, in the craters of which four large lakes and a number of smaller ones have been formed. To the northwest are
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