Italy is a peninsula located in Southern Europe that has a unique boot shape to it. The peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea bordered by Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, France. And by the Adriatic and Ionian seas. Italy geography is comprised of the Alps on the Southern side and the large plains of Po Valley. Also there are islands including Sicily, Sardinia, and the island of Corsica, which belong to the Italian geographic region has been a part of France since 1769.