The region of Veneto is situated in the North-East side of Italy between the Dolomite mountains and the Adriatic Sea. It is divided into 7 Provinces - Venezia, Verona, Padova, Vicenza, Treviso, Rovigo e Belluno and the Regional Administrative Centre of Venezia.

It has a population of 4,577,408 inhabitants, accounting for 7.7% of the total Italian population, and covers a geographical area of 18,398,85 km2.

The territory is mainly flat and is rich in rivers (among which the Po and the Adige, the two longest rivers in the country).

Veneto is considered one of the main "engines" behind Italian industry and its economy has a lengthy tradition of agricultural and industrial activity. At the heart of this industry is Porto Marghera, overlooking the Gulf of Venice, where an important shipbuilding industry has also developed. In recent decades the Region's dynamism has led to the founding of numerous small and medium-sized companies and the establishment of many large industrial groups mainly specialized in export-oriented sectors such as eye-wear, clothing, jewellery, shoe manufacturing, leather tanning and marble processing.

It boasts over 450,000 small to medium-sized companies which means one company to every ten inhabitants in the Veneto. The Veneto Region is an autonomous territorial organization with legislative powers which, together with the other nineteen Regions, the State and the Autonomous Provinces, make up the Italian Republic. The twenty Italian Regions, five of which have a special statute, were instituted by the Constitution in 1948.