What is the geography of Italy?(easy 10 points)?
Italy is located in southern Europe and comprises the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula, the land between the peninsula and the Alps, and a number of islands including Sicily and Sardinia. Its total area is 301 230 km², of which 294 020 km² is land and 7 210 km² is water. Including islands, Italy has a coastline of 7 600 km on the Adriatic, Ionian, Tyrrhenian and Ligurian regions of the central Mediterranean Sea. Italy claims territorial waters to 12 nautical miles and the continental shelf to a depth of 200 m or any exploitation. Land borders with neighbouring countries total 1 932.2 km, split predominantly between Switzerland (740 km), France (488 km), Austria (430 km) and Slovenia (232 km). San Marino (39 km) and the Vatican City (3.2 km), both entirely surrounded by Italy, account for the remainder. Italy is a mountainous country, with the Alps as the northern boundary and the Apennine Mountains forming the backbone of the peninsula, but in between the two lies a large plain in t
