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This is a list of islands of Italy. There are nearly 450
Islands off the coast of
Islands in the Campanian Archipelago include:
*Flegrean Isles
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The Italian islands in the
Islands in the
This is a list of islands of Italy. There are nearly 450 island
An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...
s in Italy
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, including islands in the Mediterranean Sea
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(including the marginal seas: Adriatic Sea
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, Ionian Sea
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, Libyan Sea
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, Ligurian Sea
The Ligurian Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea. It lies between the Italian Riviera ( Liguria) and the island of Corsica. The sea is thought to have been named after the ancient Ligures people.
Geography
The sea borders Italy as far as ...
, Sea of Sardinia, Tyrrhenian Sea
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The sea is bounded by the islands of C ...
, and inland islands in lakes and rivers. The largest island is Sicily
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with an area of . The outlying islands of Italy make up an official region of Insular Italy with an area of .
Insular Italy
Italy has a coastline and border of on theMediterranean Sea
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. The following sections list the islands by coastal region, major island, lagoon, or archipelago.
Calabria
Islands off the coast of Calabria
Calabria is a Regions of Italy, region in Southern Italy. It is a peninsula bordered by the region Basilicata to the north, the Ionian Sea to the east, the Strait of Messina to the southwest, which separates it from Sicily, and the Tyrrhenian S ...
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Islands in the Campanian Archipelago include:
*Flegrean Isles
**Capri
Capri ( , ; ) is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. A popular resort destination since the time of the Roman Republic, its natural beauty ...
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Ischia ( , , ) is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It lies at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples, about from the city of Naples. It is the largest of the Phlegrean Islands. Although inhabited since the Bronze Age, as a Ancient G ...
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Nisida is a volcano, volcanic islet of the Flegrean Islands archipelago, in southern Italy. It lies at a very short distance from Cape Posillipo, just north of Naples; it is connected to the mainland by a camera-enforced 1km-long pedestrian zone. ...
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*Procida
Procida (; ) is one of the Phlegraean Islands off the coast of Naples in southern Italy. The island is between Cape Miseno and the island of Ischia. With its tiny satellite island of Vivara, it is a (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Na ...
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Cheradi Islands
The Cheradi Islands include: *Campo Islet - *Gallipoli
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Grado Lagoon
There are nearly 120 islands in the Marano Grado Lagoon of the Adriatic Sea, including: * (canal) - * Barbana - * Fossalon Island near Grado - * Isola di Grado - *, * - * (canal) -Gulf of La Spezia
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Ligurian Islands
The Italian islands in the Ligurian Sea
The Ligurian Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea. It lies between the Italian Riviera ( Liguria) and the island of Corsica. The sea is thought to have been named after the ancient Ligures people.
Geography
The sea borders Italy as far as ...
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Marano Lagoon
Islands in the Marano Lagoon include: * Isola Marinetta - * - * -Pedagne peninsula
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Islands in the Pontine Islands
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Zannone is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy, and is part of the Pontine Islands, administratively in the ''comune'' of Ponza. The entire island is about in size and about from Ponza Island.
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Sardinia
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Sicily
The island of Sicily
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*Aegadian Islands
The Aegadian Islands (; ; ; ; ) are a group of five small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, Italy, near the cities of Trapani and Marsala, with a total area of .
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Marettimo (; Sicilian: ''Marrètimu'') is one of the Aegadian Islands in the Mediterranean Sea west of Sicily, Italy. It forms a part of the municipality (''comune'') of Favignana in the Province of Trapani. It takes about an hour to reach the ...
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Linosa (; ; ) is one of the Pelagie Islands in the Sicily Channel of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Ustica (; ) is a small Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is about across and is situated north of Capo Gallo, Sicily. Roughly 1,300 people live in the ''comune'' (municipality) of the same name. There is a regular ferry service ...
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Elba (, ; ) is a Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean island in Tuscany, Italy, from the coastal town of Piombino on the Italian mainland, and the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago. It is also part of the Arcipelago Toscano National Park, a ...
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Islands in the Venetian Lagoon
The Venetian Lagoon (; ) is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the Italian and Venetian languages, ' (cognate of Latin ' ), has provided the English name for an enclosed, ...
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Burano is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, near Torcello at the northern end of the lagoon, known for its lace work and brightly coloured homes. The primary economy is tourism.
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Chioggia (; , ; ) is a coastal town and (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy.
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Lido may refer to:
Geography
* Lido (Belgrade), a river beach on the Danube in Belgrade, Serbia
* Venice Lido, an 11-kilometre-long barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon, Venice, Italy
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Pellestrina is an island in northern Italy, forming a barrier between the southern Venetian Lagoon and the Adriatic Sea, lying south west of the Lido di Venezia, Lido.
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Tronchetto (also known as ''Isola nuova'', meaning "New island") is an artificial island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, located at the westernmost tip of the main Venice island.
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Islands in lakes and rivers
Islands in inland lakes and rivers include:
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* Lago Maggiore
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** Isole Borromee
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*** Isolino di San Giovanni,
** Castelli di Cannero,
** Isolino Partegora,
* Lago d'Orta
** Isola San Giulio,
* Lago Trasimeno
** Isola Polvese,
** Isola Maggiore,
** Isola Minore
Isola Minore, known until the twentieth century simply as ''l'isoletta'' (‘the little island’), is the smallest of the three islands of Lago Trasimeno in central Italy, and the closest to Passignano sul Trasimeno within whose municipal boundar ...
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*Tiber River
The Tiber ( ; ; ) is the List of rivers of Italy, third-longest river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, where it is joined by the R ...
** Isola Tiberina,
**Isola Sacra
Isola Sacra (the Holy Isle) is situated in the Lazio region of Italy south of Rome, near the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is part of the town of Fiumicino.
Overview
The area between Portus and Ostia Antica was transformed into an artificial island by Emper ...
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See also
* Insular Italy * List of islands in the Mediterranean *List of islands in the Adriatic
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* List of islands
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* List of bridges in Italy
References
External links
* {{Authority controlItaly
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