Italy is in southern Europe and fronts on Mediterranean Sea. Italy peninsula looks like a long boot. Italy consist by this peninsula and 2 big island, Sicily and Sardinia. The area is total 301,225 square km, and The population is 58 million. Italy's capital is Rome, but Milan, Turin, Genoa and other cities are also famous as a historical city.
Italy is next to France, Switzerland Austria and Slovenia at The Alps. More than three-quarters of the Italian countryside is hilly or mountainous. It has The Apennine mountains which run down the middle of the peninsula and, there are active volcanoes in the south of Italy. Italy's the longest river is Po. it rises in the Alps and runs to the Adriatic Sea. The Tiber River rise in the Apennines and flows the city of Rome to the Mediterranean. Italy has 1,500 lakes.
