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The three main islands to the west of the Italian peninsula are Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. Sicily is the largest island, and it is part of Italy, while Sardinia lies to the north and is also part of Italy. Corsica is located to the north of Sardinia and is a region of France.
There are actually two: West of the northern part of Italy is the Ligurian Sea, bounded by the island of Corsica and northern Italy. West of the southern part of Italy is the Tyrrhenian Sea, bounded by the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and the southern half of the Italian Peninsula.
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The three main islands of the Italian Peninsula are Sicily, Sardinia, and Capri. Sicily is the largest in the Mediterranean Sea, while Sardinia is the second-largest island and Capri is a smaller island located off the southern coast.
The Tyrrhenian Sea
The islands are the Aleutian Islands, and stretch for hundreds of miles to the west of the Alaska Peninsula.
Rome is located on the western coast of the Italian peninsula.
The island chain that lies west of Alaska is the Aleutian Islands.
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No, they are not. Norway, Sweden and Finland are part of the large Scandinavian peninsula. The peninsula is attached to northern Russia, west of the Ural Mountains.
The Iberian Peninsula is much larger than the Italian Peninsula. The Iberian Peninsula is about 590,000 km2 in area, while the Italian Peninsula is only about 300,000 km2 in area.