Corsica
South Corsica
Arrondissement of Ajaccio

Ajaccio

Ajaccio is the capital of the Mediterranean island of , home to 71,000 people. It is a sun-kissed tourist town with frequent visits by cruise ships.
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  • Type: City with 73,800 residents
  • Description: French commune and prefecture of Corse-du-Sud and Corsica
  • Also known as: “Aghjacciu”, “Aiaccio”, and “Aiacciu”
  • Postal codes: 20000, 20000, 20090, and 20167
Photo: J budissin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Maison Bonaparte and Fesch Museum.

Museum
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
is the ancestral home of the Bonaparte family. It is located on the Rue Saint-Charles in Ajaccio on the island of . The house was almost continuously owned by members of the family from 1682 to 1923.

Museum
Photo: Pierre Bona, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The musée Fesch is the central of fine arts in Ajaccio on . Located within the gated Palais Fesch, it is in the town's Borgu d'Ajaccio quarter. It was established by Napoleon I's uncle, cardinal Joseph Fesch, in Fesch's birthplace.

Church
Photo: Myrabella, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, officially the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption of Ajaccio and also known as the Cathedral of the Assumption of Saint Mary, is a Roman Catholic church located in Ajaccio, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Les Jardins de l’Empereur.

Suburb
Les Jardins de l'Empereur is a neighbourhood of Ajaccio, , France. The neighbourhood has been described as a banlieue and is classed as a sensitive urban zone.

Ajaccio

Latitude
41.9264° or 41° 55′ 35″ north
Longitude
8.7376° or 8° 44′ 15″ east
Population
73,800
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
AJA
United Nations Location Code
FR AJA
Open location code
8FHCWPGQ+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 51341115
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3038334
Wiki­data ID
Q40104
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ajaccio” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ajaccio”
  • Albanian: “Ajaçio”
  • Amharic: “አዣክሲዮ”
  • Amharic: “አያቾ”
  • Arabic: “أجاكسيو”
  • Arabic: “أياتشو”
  • Aragonese: “Aiacciu”
  • Aragonese: “Ajaccio”
  • Armenian: “Այաչչո”
  • Arpitan: “Ajaccio”
  • Asturian: “Aiacciu”
  • Asturian: “Ajaccio”
  • Aymara: “Ajaccio”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ayaçço”
  • Balinese: “Ajaccio”
  • Bambara: “Ajaccio”
  • Basque: “Aiacciu”
  • Basque: “Ajaccio”
  • Bavarian: “Ajaccio”
  • Belarusian: “Аяча”
  • Belarusian: “Аячча”
  • Bengali: “আজাকসিও”
  • Breton: “Aiacciu”
  • Breton: “Ajaccio”
  • Bulgarian: “Аячо”
  • Cajun French: “Ajaccio”
  • Catalan: “Aiacciu”
  • Catalan: “Ajaccio”
  • Cebuano: “Ajaccio (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Ajaccio”
  • Chechen: “Аяччо”
  • Chinese: “Ajaccio”
  • Chinese: “阿些斯奧”
  • Chinese: “阿雅克修”
  • Chinese: “阿雅克肖”
  • Chuvash: “Аяччо”
  • Corsican: “Aghjacciu”
  • Corsican: “Aiacciu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ayaçço”
  • Croatian: “Aiacciu”
  • Croatian: “Ajaccio”
  • Czech: “Aiacciu”
  • Czech: “Ajaccio”
  • Danish: “Ajaccio”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ajaccio”
  • Dutch: “Aiacciu”
  • Dutch: “Ajaccio”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اجاكسيو”
  • Esperanto: “Ajaccio”
  • Estonian: “Aiacciu”
  • Estonian: “Ajaccio”
  • Faroese: “Ajaccio”
  • Finnish: “Ajaccio”
  • French: “Aiaccio”
  • French: “Aiacciu”
  • French: “Ajaccio”
  • French: “Espace urbain d’Ajaccio”
  • Friulian: “Ajaccio”
  • Galician: “Aiacciu”
  • Galician: “Ajaccio”
  • Georgian: “აიაჩო”
  • German: “Aiaccio”
  • German: “Aiacciu”
  • German: “Ajaccio”
  • Greek: “Αζάκιο”
  • Greek: “Αζαξιό”
  • Greek: “Αιάκειο”
  • Gujarati: “અજાસિઓ”
  • Hebrew: “אז’אקסיו”
  • Hebrew: “אז’קסיו”
  • Hebrew: “אזאקסיו”
  • Hindi: “अजाशियो”
  • Hungarian: “Ajaccio”
  • Icelandic: “Ajaccio”
  • Ido: “Ajaccio”
  • Indonesian: “Ajaccio”
  • Interlingua: “Ajaccio”
  • Interlingue: “Ajaccio”
  • Irish: “Aiacciu”
  • Irish: “Ajaccio”
  • Italian: “Aiaccio”
  • Italian: “Aiacciu”
  • Italian: “Ajaccio”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Ajaccio”
  • Japanese: “アジャクシオ”
  • Japanese: “アヤッチュ”
  • Japanese: “アヤッチョ”
  • Kabyle: “Ajaccio”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ajaccio”
  • Kannada: “ಅಜಾಶಿಯೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Аяччо”
  • Kölsch: “Ajaccio”
  • Kongo: “Ajaccio”
  • Korean: “아작시오”
  • Kurdish: “Aiacciu”
  • Kurdish: “Ajaccio”
  • Ladin: “Ajaccio”
  • Ladino: “Ajaccio”
  • Latin: “Adiacium”
  • Latin: “Ajaccio”
  • Latvian: “Adiacium”
  • Latvian: “Aiacciu”
  • Latvian: “Ajaccio”
  • Latvian: “Ajačju”
  • Latvian: “Ajačo”
  • Latvian: “Ažaksjo”
  • Ligurian: “Aghjacciu”
  • Ligurian: “Ajaccio”
  • Limburgan: “Aiacciu”
  • Limburgan: “Ajaccio”
  • Lithuanian: “Ajačas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ajaccio”
  • Lombard: “Aiacciu”
  • Lombard: “Ajaccio”
  • Low German: “Ajaccio”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ajaccio”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ajaccio”
  • Macedonian: “Ајачо”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Ajaccio”
  • Malagasy: “Ajaccio”
  • Malay: “Ajaccio”
  • Maltese: “Ajaccio”
  • Marathi: “अझाक्सियो”
  • Mazanderani: “آژاکسیو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ajaccio”
  • Minangkabau: “Ajaccio”
  • Moksha: “Аяччо”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أجاكسيو”
  • Narom: “Aiaccio”
  • Neapolitan: “Ajaccio”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ajaccio”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ajaccio”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aiacciu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ajaccio”
  • Norwegian: “Ajaccio”
  • Novial: “Ajaccio”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aiacciu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ajaccio”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ajaccio”
  • Ossetian: “Аяччо”
  • Papiamento: “Ajaccio”
  • Persian: “آژاکسیو”
  • Persian: “آیاتچو”
  • Persian: “اژاکسیو”
  • Persian: “ایاتچو”
  • Picard: “Ajaccio”
  • Piemontese: “Ajaccio”
  • Polish: “Ajaccio”
  • Portuguese: “Ajaccio”
  • Portuguese: “Ajacio”
  • Portuguese: “Ajácio”
  • Prussian: “Ajaccio”
  • Romagnol: “Ajaccio”
  • Romanian: “Aiacciu”
  • Romanian: “Ajaccio”
  • Romansh: “Ajaccio”
  • Russian: “Аяччио”
  • Russian: “Аяччо”
  • Sardinian: “Ajaccio”
  • Sardinian: “Ajacciu”
  • Scots: “Ajaccio”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ajaccio”
  • Serbian: “Ajaccio”
  • Serbian: “Ажаксио”
  • Serbian: “Ајачио”
  • Serbian: “Ајачо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ajaccio”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ajačo”
  • Sicilian: “Adiacciu”
  • Sicilian: “Adjacciu”
  • Sicilian: “Aghjacciu”
  • Sicilian: “Aiacciu”
  • Sicilian: “Ajaccio”
  • Sicilian: “Ajacciu”
  • Silesian: “Ajaccio”
  • Sinhala: “ඇජැෂියෝ”
  • Slovak: “Ajaccio”
  • Slovenian: “Ajaccio”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آژاکسیو”
  • Spanish: “Ajaccio”
  • Spanish: “Ayacio”
  • Swahili: “Ajaccio”
  • Swedish: “Aiacciu”
  • Swedish: “Ajaccio”
  • Swiss German: “Ajaccio”
  • Tagalog: “Ajaccio”
  • Talysh: “Ajacco”
  • Talysh: “Ayaçço”
  • Tamil: “அயாச்சோ”
  • Tamil: “அஜாசியோ”
  • Tatar: “Аяччо”
  • Telugu: “అజాక్షియో”
  • Thai: “อาฌักซีโย”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཇཀ་སིའོ།”
  • Turkish: “Ajaccio”
  • Twi: “Ajaccio”
  • Ukrainian: “Аяччо”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Aiacciu”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ajaccio”
  • Urdu: “اجاکیو”
  • Urdu: “اژاکسی او”
  • Urdu: “ایاکیو”
  • Uzbek: “Ajaccio”
  • Venetian: “Ajaccio”
  • Venetian: “Ajacio”
  • Vietnamese: “Ajaccio”
  • Vlaams: “Ajaccio”
  • Volapük: “Ajaccio”
  • Walloon: “Ajaccio”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ajaccio”
  • Welsh: “Ajaccio”
  • Western Armenian: “Այաչչո”
  • Western Panjabi: “اجاکیو”
  • Wolof: “Ajaccio”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿雅克肖”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿些斯奧”
  • Zeeuws: “Ajaccio”
  • Zulu: “Ajaccio”
  • “Ajaccio”

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