Italy is a European country, located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe. Sicily and Sardinia, two biggest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, are the parts of Italy.
It is bounded by France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia to the north. The Apennine Mountains form the peninsula's backbone; the Alps form its northern boundary.
Italy occupies an elongated boot-shaped peninsula, surrounded on the west by the Tyrrheian Sea and on the east by the Adriatic Sea.
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