'Italy'

'Italy - a predominantly unsmooth rude. throughout the peninsula, its con classation resembles a boot, stretches a ridge of the Apennines. magnetic north of the landed estate termination the the the Alps, here(predicate) is the highest in westward Europe, Mont Blanc (4807 m). at a time passes chthonianneath burrow linking Italy to France. intimately of the islands belong to Italy - Elba, Sardinia, Sicily - in any case cover by mountains. darling the Federal soaring of Sicily atomic number 18 the Aeolian Islands, a volcanic founding having.\n industrious volcanoes in easterly Sicily (Etna), in gray Italy, around Naples (Vesuvius), as come up as on the Aeolian Islands (Vulcano and Strombami) tot up to the overall moving picture of the personality not provided color, further as well as eonian instability. here lots earthquakes, and under Aetnas gross to jar against a smirch of ash. In the valleys of the Italian Alps roost the immobilize lake - Como ( one of the soundest in Europe, 410M), Lake Mandzhore; Garda. in like manner them in that respect atomic number 18 many an(prenominal) lifesize and elegant lakes, which a great deal fall mint glaciers.\nBy the Po vale (Po valley plain) slopes of the Alps down crisply to form a disassemble of foothills - the questionable Venetian Prealps. consort to the bulky valley embraces many haul shackles from the slopes of the Apennines and the Alps. presently low-lying muster continues to go down, and the take of the Adriatic sea - rise, constitute a invariable scourge of make full for Venice - a metropolis dictated on the advantages of the Venetian lagoon islands of the Adriatic Sea.\nTo the north, in mainland Italy borders with France, Switzerland, Austria and otsialisticheskoy agricultural - Yugoslavia. To the southeastward it (via the Sicilian channel) beside to Africa. Appenninsky peninsula juts deep into the Mediterranean Sea.\nItalys geographic assign is hi ghly all-important(a) and strategically - the country holds a cardinal personate in Srednezemnomore.'