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Satellite view of the peninsula in March 2003. The Italian Peninsula (Italian: penisola italica or penisola italiana), also known as the Italic Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula or Italian Boot, is a peninsula extending from the southern Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south.
Italian Peninsula, one of the three great peninsulas of southern Europe, the other two being the Balkan (to the east) and the Iberian (to the west). The Italian Peninsula extends from the region of the Po River southward for some 600 miles (960 km); it has a maximum width of 150 miles (240 km).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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A map of the Italian Peninsula and its location in Europe. The Italian Peninsula or Apennine Peninsula ( Italian: Penisola italiana, Penisola appenninica) is a large peninsula of Southern Europe. It extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Ionian and Adriatic Seas on the east and the Tyrrhenian Sea on the west.
Wilayah geografis Italia, wilayah fisik Italia atau wilayah Italia adalah sebuah wilayah geografis [1] di Eropa selatan-tengah yang dibatasi di sebelah utara oleh pegunungan Alpen. Wilayah ini terdiri dari bagian semenanjung dan kontinental dan bagian kepulauan.
Italy, [a] officially the Italian Republic, [b] is a country in Southern [14] and Western [15] [c] Europe. It is located on a peninsula that extends into the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as several islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. [16]
In particular, the Italian peninsula is located in the center of the Mediterranean Sea, between the Balkans and Hellenic peninsula to the east, the Iberian peninsula to the west, North Africa to the south and continental Europe to the north separated by the Alps.
The Italian Peninsula, or the Italic Peninsula or the Apennine Peninsula, is a peninsula on the European continent crossed by the Apennine chain and delimited by four seas: the Ligurian Sea, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ionian Sea and the Adriatic Sea.
