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Map of Italian islands. This is a list of islands of Italy. There are nearly 450 islands in Italy, including islands in the Mediterranean Sea (including the marginal seas: Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea, Libyan Sea, Ligurian Sea, Sea of Sardinia, Tyrrhenian Sea, and inland islands in lakes and rivers. The largest island is Sicily with an area of ...
It is one of the largest suburbs of Naples and is relatively lightly populated compared to surrounding areas, with around 20,000 residents. The district of Capodichino includes Naples International Airport, the Ugo Niutta military airport, and the US Naval Support Activity where the United States Sixth Fleet has its home base.
The five largest islands belonging to the Italian state are, in order of size: Sicily (25,707 km 2 or 9,926 sq mi) Sardinia (24,090 km 2 or 9,300 sq mi) Elba (223 km 2 or 86 sq mi) Sant'Antioco (108.9 km 2 or 42.0 sq mi) Pantelleria (83 km 2 or 32 sq mi). Other islands belonging to Italy are grouped into the following archipelagos:
Other major Atlantic islands: Azores (Portugal) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Madeira (Portugal) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Canary Islands (Spain) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Faroe Islands (Denmark)
On October 3, 1951, the naval ashore unit Headquarters, Support Activities was created to support Allied Forces Southern Europe, and later the Sixth Fleet.In August, 1953, the support unit became Commander, Subordinate command, U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic / Commander, Headquarters Support Activities, and re-designated U.S. Naval Activities, Italy / U.S. Naval Support Activity, Naples in ...
Map of the historical western borders of Italy with highlighting of the natural borders The Italian Republic occupies 93% of the Italian geographical region. The remaining portion (23 000 km 2 ) is divided between several other states, some of which (in order of geographical extension: Malta , San Marino , Monaco , and Vatican City ) are ...