ITALY
Italy, officially the Italian Republic (in Italian: Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign country member of the European Union. It is a bicontinental country; its territory is in Southern Europe and it has several islands in North Africa; its European territory (99.97%) is made up of the Italic peninsula,the Po valley and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia, while the African territory (0.03%) is made up of the islands of Lampedusa, Lampione and Pantelleria In the north it is bordered by the Alps, where it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia.