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Area of Italy

Italy covers an area of 301,333 square kilometers. Italy is located in the southern part of Europe on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory includes the southern foothills of the Alps and the Po River Plain region, the Apennine Peninsula and the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and many other islands. The Apennine Peninsula accounts for 80% of its total territory.

Italy's land border in the north with the Alps as a barrier with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, 80% of the national boundary for the sea border. East, west and south of the Mediterranean Sea on the Adriatic Sea, the Ionian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, and with Tunisia, Malta and Algeria across the sea.

Climate characteristics of Italy.

Most of Italy has a subtropical Mediterranean-type climate. In the Milan and Bologna belts, winter is often shrouded in fog and sometimes snow. Bataan plains area is hotter in summer and colder in winter, with an average temperature of 2 to 4 ℃ in January and 20 to 24 ℃ in July. Alpine region is the lowest temperature in the country, more snow in winter months the average temperature of -12 ℃ to 1 ℃, July for 4 to 20 ℃. The climate of the Alps is characterized by a clear vertical distribution, with the increase in terrain, the temperature gradually decline. In the foothills of the Alps in the Lake District zone, due to the high mountains blocked the cold flow from northern Europe, coupled with the regulating effect of the lake, so the climate is mild.