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Map of the autostrade of Italy. The autostrade ( Italian: [ˌautoˈstraːde]; sg. autostrada [ˌautoˈstraːda]) are roads forming the Italian national system of motorways. The total length of the system is about 7,016 kilometres (4,360 mi), as of 30 July 2022. [ 1] To these data are added 13 motorway spur routes, which extend for 355 ...
The National Maximum Speed Limit ( NMSL) was a provision of the federal government of the United States 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act that effectively prohibited speed limits higher than 55 miles per hour (89 km/h). The limit was increased to 65 miles per hour (105 km/h) in 1987. It was drafted in response to oil price spikes ...
Fuel economy is the distance travelled per unit volume of fuel used; for example, kilometres per litre (km/L) or miles per gallon (MPG), where 1 MPG (imperial) ≈ 0.354006 km/L. The higher the value, the more economic a vehicle is (the more distance it can travel with a certain volume of fuel). This measure is popular in the US and the UK (mpg ...
The total area of Italy is 301,230 km2(116,310 sq mi), of which 294,020 km2(113,520 sq mi) is land and 7,210 km2(2,784 sq mi) is water. It lies between latitudes 35°and 47° N, and longitudes 6°and 19° E. Italy borders Switzerland(698 km or 434 mi), France(476 km or 296 mi), Austria(404 km or 251 mi) and Slovenia(218 km or 135 mi).
0.44704. Miles per hour ( mph, m.p.h., MPH, or mi/h) is a British imperial and United States customary unit of speed expressing the number of miles travelled in one hour. It is used in the United Kingdom, the United States, and a number of smaller countries, most of which are UK or US territories, or have close historical ties with the UK or US.
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes unrecognized but de facto independent countries.
A variety of units of measurement were used in the various independent Italian states and Italian dependencies of foreign empires up to the unification of Italy in the 19th century. The units to measure length, volume, mass, etc., could differ widely between countries or between towns in a country (e.g. Rome and Ancona), but usually not between ...
The Po, Italy's longest river (652 kilometres or 405 miles), flows from the Alps on the western border with France and crosses the Po Valley on its way to the Adriatic Sea. The Po Valley is the largest plain in Italy, with 46,000 km 2 (18,000 sq mi), and it represents over 70% of the total plain area in the country. [13]