The count · Italy
Italy has 1,969 beaches.
We counted.
That’s 1,969named, mapped beaches — real OpenStreetMap geometry, deduplicated, nothing under 1,500 m² of actual sand. The true number is higher (unnamed coves don’t count themselves), so treat this as the verifiable floor. Combined mapped sand: roughly 51.8 km².
The widest of them
Spiaggia di Levante — 246.1 m of sand, on average