The largest Italian island is Sicily, south-west of the peninsula. As for Greece, its largest island Crete. It may help you to remember this to consider that a major war occurred in ancient Greek history between the Mycenaeans, inhabiting Greece, and the Minoans, the inhabitants of Crete
There are two countries in Europe that consist mainly of a peninsula with surrounding islands. Italy, which has three large islands and Greece, which has a large number of smaller islands.
Greece.
Great Britain, Ireland, Greece, Italy
Denmark, Italy, Greece, and Turkey are all countries that occupy a full peninsula (or the outline of one in Italy's case) and also contain several little islands, as well as some large ones.
The three large islands between Italy and north Africa are Sardina, Sicily (which are part of Italy) and the third island is Corsica.
The continent of Europe lies due north of Italy and Greece. Italy and Greece are actually part of that rather large continent.The continent due north of Italy and Greece is Africa
Islands that start with the letter I:Ibiza (Spain)Icaria (Greece)IcelandIrelandIsabela (Ecuador)Ischia (Italy)
corscia,sardinia, and sicily are the three large ilands west of italy.
Greece is a large peninsula with a lot of smaller islands and it is also surrounded by many large mountains.
sardinia and sicily islands
The European country with many, many, little islands is Greece. The mainland is on the southern Balkan Peninsula and has its own large peninsula (the Peloponnesus) across the Isthmus of Corinth. There are several fairly large islands, mostly in the Aegean Sea, with the largest and southernmost being Crete.The countries of Denmark and Italy both also have peninsulas and nearby islands.
Crete is the largest.