Gulf of Taranto
The Gulf of Taranto is a gulf of the Ionian Sea, in Southern Italy. The Gulf of Taranto is almost square, 140 km long and wide, making it the largest gulf in Italy, and it is delimited by the capes Santa Maria di Leuca and Colonna, encompassed by the three regions of Apulia, Basilicata and Calabria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Gulf
- Description: bay
- Also known as: “Golfo di Taranto” and “Gulf of Tarentum”
Gulf of Taranto
- Categories: gulf and body of water
- Location: Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Gulf of Taranto” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خليج تارانتو”
- Arabic: “خليج طارنت”
- Basque: “Tarentoko golkoa”
- Belarusian: “Заліў Таранта”
- Belarusian: “Таранта”
- Bosnian: “Tarantski zaliv”
- Breton: “Pleg-mor Taranto”
- Bulgarian: “Таранто”
- Bulgarian: “Тарентски залив”
- Catalan: “golf de Tarent”
- Catalan: “golf de Tàrent”
- Catalan: “Golf de Tàrent”
- Cebuano: “Golfo di Taranto”
- Central Kurdish: “کەنداوی تارانتۆ”
- Chinese: “塔兰托湾”
- Chinese: “塔蘭托灣”
- Croatian: “Tarantski zaljev”
- Czech: “Tarentský záliv”
- Danish: “Golfo di Taranto”
- Danish: “Taranto-bugten”
- Danish: “Tarantobugten”
- Dutch: “Golf van Tarente”
- Esperanto: “Golfo de Taranto”
- Esperanto: “Taranta Golfo”
- Estonian: “Taranto laht”
- Finnish: “Tarantonlahti”
- French: “Golfe de Tarante”
- French: “golfe de Tarente”
- French: “Golfe de Tarente”
- Georgian: “ტარანტოს ყურე”
- German: “Golf von Tarent”
- German: “Ionischer Golf”
- German: “Tarentinischer Meerbusen”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ טאראנטו”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ טרנטו”
- Hungarian: “Tarantói-öböl”
- Indonesian: “Teluk Taranto”
- Italian: “golfo di Taranto”
- Italian: “Golfo di Taranto”
- Japanese: “ターラント湾”
- Japanese: “タラント湾”
- Korean: “타란토만”
- Latin: “Sinus Tarentinus”
- Latvian: “Taranto līcis”
- Lithuanian: “Taranto įlanka”
- Macedonian: “Тарантски Залив”
- Malay: “Teluk Taranto”
- Mongolian: “Тарантогийн булан”
- Northern Frisian: “Golf faan Tarent”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Golfo di Taranto”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarantobukta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarantobukten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Golfo di Taranto”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sinus Tarentinus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tarantobukta”
- Norwegian: “Tarantobukta”
- Persian: “خلیج تارانتو”
- Polish: “Zatoka Tarencka”
- Portuguese: “Golfo de Taranto”
- Portuguese: “Golfo de Tarento”
- Portuguese: “Golfo di Taranto”
- Romanian: “Golful Tarento”
- Russian: “Залив Таранто”
- Russian: “Таранто”
- Russian: “Тарантский залив”
- Russian: “Тарентский залив”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tarantski zaljev”
- Slovak: “Tarentský záliv”
- Slovenian: “Tarantski zaliv”
- Spanish: “Golfo de Tarento”
- Spanish: “Golfo tarentino”
- Swedish: “Golfo di Taranto”
- Swedish: “Tarantobukten”
- Swedish: “Tarantoviken”
- Turkish: “Taranto Körfezi”
- Ukrainian: “Таранто”
- Vietnamese: “Vịnh Taranto”
- Welsh: “Gwlff Taranto”
- “Gurfe de Tarde”
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