South Corsica

Corse-du-Sud is an administrative department of , consisting of the southern part of the island of . The corresponding departmental territorial collectivity merged with that of on 1 January 2018, forming the single territorial collectivity of Corsica, with territorial elections coinciding with the dissolution of the separate council.
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  • Type: department of France with 166,000 residents
  • Description: French department in Corsica
  • Also known as: “2A”, “A2”, “an Chorsaic Theas”, “Corcega del Sur”, “Corse-du-Sud”, “Corsica di u Sudu”, “Corsica suttana”, “departamentul Corse-du-Sud”, “Kòs disid”, “Soothren Corsicae”, “Southern Corsica”, “Súd-Korsika”, “Suid-Korsika”, “Sydkorsika”, “Κορς-ντυ-Συντ”, “дэпартамент Корсіка Паўднёвая”, “Корс-дю-Суд”, “Корсіка Паўднёвая”, “كورس دي سود (إقليم فرنسي)”, “كورسيكا الجنوبية (إقليم فرنسي)”, and “南コルシカ県”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Chapelle Saint-Roch de Zicavo and Église Saint-Luxor de Zicavo.

Church
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is a church.

Church
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is a church.

Mountain hut
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is a mountain hut, which is situated 4 km northeast of South Corsica.

South Corsica

Latitude
41.9167° or 41° 55′ north
Longitude
9.1667° or 9° 10′ east
Population
166,000
Elevation
1,392 metres (4,567 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“Liamone”
Open location code
8FHFW588+MM
Geo­Names ID
3023514
Wiki­data ID
Q3336
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“South Corsica” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Albanian: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Arabic: “كورس دو سود”
  • Arabic: “كورسيكا الجنوبية”
  • Aragonese: “Corcega d’o Sud”
  • Armenian: “Հարավային Կորսիկա”
  • Arpitan: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Asturian: “Córcega del Sur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cənubi Korsika”
  • Basque: “Hego Korsika”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Паўднёвая Корсіка”
  • Belarusian: “Паўднёвая Корсіка”
  • Belarusian: “Паўднёвая Корсыка”
  • Bengali: “কোর্স ডু সৌদ”
  • Breton: “Korsika-ar-Su”
  • Bulgarian: “Южна Корсика”
  • Catalan: “Còrsega del Sud”
  • Cebuano: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Chechen: “Къилба Корсика”
  • Chinese: “南科西嘉”
  • Chinese: “南科西嘉省”
  • Chuvash: “Кăнтăр Корсика”
  • Corsican: “Pumonte”
  • Corsican: “Pumonti”
  • Croatian: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Czech: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Danish: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Dutch: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Esperanto: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Estonian: “Corse du Sud”
  • Estonian: “Corse-du-Sudi departemang”
  • Finnish: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • French: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • French: “Département de la Corse-du-Sud”
  • Galician: “Córsega do Sur”
  • Georgian: “სამხრეთი კორსიკა”
  • German: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • German: “Département Corse-du-Sud”
  • German: “Südkorsika”
  • Greek: “Νότια Κορσική”
  • Gujarati: “કૉર્સ-ડુ-સુદ”
  • Haitian: “Kors disid”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Hebrew: “קורסיקה הדרומית”
  • Hindi: “कोरसे-डु-सड”
  • Hindi: “कोर्स-दु-सुद”
  • Hungarian: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Indonesian: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Corse-du-Sud”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Corse-du-Sud”
  • Irish: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Italian: “Corsica del Sud”
  • Japanese: “コルス＝デュ＝シュド県”
  • Jèrriais: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋರ್ಸ್-ಡು-ಸುಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Оңтүстік Корсика”
  • Kongo: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Korean: “코르스뒤쉬드주”
  • Ladin: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Ladino: “Corse du Sud”
  • Latin: “Corsica Meridionalis”
  • Latvian: “Dienvidkorsika”
  • Ligurian: “Pumonti”
  • Limburgan: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Lithuanian: “Pietų Korsika”
  • Lombard: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Low German: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Corse-du-Sud”
  • Macedonian: “Јужна Корзика”
  • Malagasy: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Malay: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Marathi: “कॉर्स-द्यु-सुद”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Northern Frisian: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Northern Sami: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Norwegian: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Corsega del Sud”
  • Ossetian: “Хуссар Корсикæ”
  • Pampanga: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Persian: “کرس جنوبی”
  • Picard: “Corse-dech-Sud”
  • Piemontese: “Còrsica Meridional”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd la Còrsica Meridional”
  • Polish: “Korsyka Południowa”
  • Portuguese: “Córsega do Sul”
  • Romanian: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Russian: “Южная Корсика”
  • Sardinian: “Còssiga Bascia”
  • Sardinian: “Còssiga de su Sud”
  • Scots: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Serbian: “Јужна Корзика”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Sinhala: “කොර්ස්-ඩු-සුඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Slovenian: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Spanish: “Córcega del Sur”
  • Swahili: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Swedish: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Корсика Южная”
  • Tamil: “கோர்ஸ் -டு -சுட்”
  • Tatar: “Көньяк Корсика”
  • Telugu: “కోర్స్-డ్యూ-సద్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดกอร์ส-ดูว์-ซูด”
  • Turkish: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Ukrainian: “Південна Корсика”
  • Urdu: “کورس-جنوبی”
  • Venetian: “Còrsega del Sud”
  • Vietnamese: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Welsh: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Western Frisian: “Corse-du-Sud”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع کورسے دو سد”
  • Wu Chinese: “南科西嘉”
  • Wu Chinese: “南科西嘉省”
  • Yue Chinese: “南歌斯嘉”
  • Yue Chinese: “南歌斯嘉省”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Cozzano and Zicavo.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Monte Occhjatu and Bocca di l’Agnone.

Corsica: Must-Visit Destinations

Worth a closer look: Ajaccio and Bastia.

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