Everything about The Italian Peninsula totally explained
The
Italian Peninsula or
Apennine Peninsula (or
Penisola appenninica) is one of the three
peninsulas of
Southern Europe, spanning 1,000 km from the
Po Valley in the north to the central
Mediterranean Sea in the south. The peninsula is well-known for its
boot shape, in fact it's known as
Lo Stivale (Italian for "The boot".) Three smaller peninsulas contribute to giving the Italian Peninsula its characteristic shape, namely
Calabria,
Salento and
Gargano.
Nearly all of the peninsula is part of the state of
Italy, hence the name, apart from
San Marino and the
Vatican City. Additionally,
Sicily and
Malta are considered an island off the peninsula and in this sense grouped along with it.
The
peninsula is bordered by the
Ligurian Sea and the
Tyrrhenian Sea on the west, the
Ionian Sea on the south, and the
Adriatic Sea on the east. The interior part of the Apennine Peninsula consists of the
Apennine Mountains, from which it takes its name, the northern part is largely plains and the coasts are lined with cliffs.
One natural resource that this
peninsula contains is
petroleum.
This peninsula has mainly a
Mediterranean climate, though in the mountainous parts the climate is cooler. Its natural vegetation includes
chaparral and
deciduous and mixed deciduous coniferous forests.
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