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Apulia

Apulia is a region of . It has 4 million inhabitants and is the easternmost region of the country, reaching a distance of only 72 km from Cape Otranto in the coasts of .
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is the capital of the Apulia region of , on the Adriatic Sea. With a population of 317,000, it's the second largest city in after .

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is a city on the Ionian coast of Apulia, in southeastern . With 200,000 inhabitants it is the third-largest city of and the second-largest city of the region, after the capital .

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is a medium-sized city of Apulia, southern . It is the third largest city of Salento Peninsula and one of the busiest ports of the Adriatic Sea.

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The Metropolitan City of is an administrative division in the Apulia region of . It replaced the former Province of on 1 January 2015.

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Province or Daunia is in Apulia, . receives many Catholic pilgrims each year to locations such as the Sanctuary of Saint Michael the Archangel in Monte Sant'Angelo, which was visited by Pope John Paul II in 1987, and to nearby San Giovanni Rotondo, the home of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina from 1916 until his death in 1968.

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is a province in Apulia in that was split off from the provinces of and in 2009.

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is the southernmost province in Apulia, the easternmost one in . It is called "the Heel of Italy" due to its location on the Salento peninsula, of which it represents the southern half.

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is a province in Apulia in southeastern . Ostuni is noted for its citadel, city walls, cathedral, and numerous mansions and is one of the main tourist attractions in the province.

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is a province in Apulia in on the Ionian Sea. The western coast is almost entirely sandy, with important dune systems that can reach up to 15 metres. In the hinterland there is a vast pine forest of great natural value.

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Gravina in Puglia is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern . The word gravina comes from the Latin grava or from the messapic graba, with the meaning of rock, shaft and erosion of bank river.

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is a peninsula and cultural region in the south-eastern part of Apulia, and it forms the "heel" of 's boot-shaped outline.

Apulia

Latitude of center
40.9843° or 40° 59′ 3″ north
Longitude of center
16.621° or 16° 37′ 16″ east
Population
4,090,000
Elevation
190 metres (623 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1781917329
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3169778
Wiki­data ID
Q1447
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Apulia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Apulië”
  • Albanian: “Pulia”
  • Amharic: “አፑሊያ”
  • Arabic: “بوجليا”
  • Arabic: “بوليا”
  • Arabic: “بولية”
  • Aragonese: “Pulla”
  • Armenian: “Ապուլիա”
  • Arpitan: “Poulye”
  • Asturian: “Apulia”
  • Asturian: “Puglia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Apuliya”
  • Balinese: “Puglia”
  • Basque: “Apulia”
  • Belarusian: “Апулія”
  • Bosnian: “Apulija”
  • Breton: “Puglia”
  • Bulgarian: “Пулия”
  • Catalan: “Pulla”
  • Cebuano: “Apulia”
  • Central Bikol: “Apulia”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاپولیا”
  • Chechen: “Апули”
  • Chinese: “Puglia”
  • Chinese: “普利亚”
  • Chinese: “普利亚大区”
  • Chinese: “普利亞”
  • Chinese: “蒲利亞”
  • Chinese: “阿普利亚”
  • Chinese: “阿普里亚”
  • Chuvash: “Апули”
  • Cornish: “Apuli”
  • Corsican: “Puglia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Apuliya”
  • Croatian: “Apulija”
  • Czech: “Apulie”
  • Danish: “Apulien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Apulya”
  • Dutch: “Apulië”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوليا”
  • Esperanto: “Apulio”
  • Estonian: “Apuulia”
  • Faroese: “Apulia”
  • Finnish: “Apulia”
  • Finnish: “Puglia”
  • French: “Apulie”
  • French: “Pouilles”
  • French: “Puglia”
  • Friulian: “Pulie”
  • Galician: “Puglia”
  • Georgian: “აპულია”
  • German: “Apulien”
  • Greek: “Απουλία”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Phú-li-â”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Puglia”
  • Hausa: “Apulia”
  • Hebrew: “פוליה”
  • Hindi: “पुलिया”
  • Hungarian: “Puglia”
  • Icelandic: “Apúlía”
  • Ido: “Apulia”
  • Ido: “Puglia”
  • Iloko: “Apulia”
  • Indonesian: “Puglia”
  • Interlingua: “Apulia”
  • Interlingue: “Apulia”
  • Irish: “Puglia”
  • Italian: “Puglia”
  • Italian: “Puglie”
  • Italian: “Regione Puglia”
  • Japanese: “プーリア州”
  • Japanese: “プッリャ州”
  • Javanese: “Puglia”
  • Kazakh: “Апулия”
  • Kikuyu: “Puglia”
  • Korean: “아풀리아”
  • Korean: “풀리아 주”
  • Korean: “풀리아주”
  • Kurdish: “Puglia”
  • Ladin: “Puglia”
  • Ladino: “Puglia”
  • Latin: “Apulia”
  • Latvian: “Apūlija”
  • Ligurian: “Puggia”
  • Limburgan: “Apulië”
  • Lithuanian: “Apulija”
  • Lombard: “Puja”
  • Lombard: “Püja”
  • Luxembourgish: “Apulien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Puglia”
  • Macedonian: “Апулија”
  • Malay: “Apulia”
  • Maltese: “Puglia”
  • Maltese: “Pulja”
  • Marathi: “पुलीया”
  • Mazanderani: “پولیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Apulia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Puglia”
  • Mingrelian: “აპულია”
  • Neapolitan: “Pùglia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Apuulien”
  • Northern Sami: “Puglia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Puglia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Puglia”
  • Norwegian: “Puglia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Polha”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Puilla”
  • Ossetian: “Апули”
  • Pampanga: “Apulia”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੂਲੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Apulia”
  • Persian: “آپولیا”
  • Persian: “پولیا”
  • Picard: “Poulles”
  • Piemontese: “Pulia”
  • Polish: “Apulia”
  • Portuguese: “Apúlia”
  • Portuguese: “Puglia”
  • Pushto: “پولیا”
  • Romagnol: “Pògli”
  • Romanian: “Apulia”
  • Russian: “Апулия”
  • Sardinian: “Pùglia”
  • Scots: “Apulie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Puglia”
  • Serbian: “Апулија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Apulija”
  • Sicilian: “Pugghia”
  • Sicilian: “Puglia”
  • Slovak: “Apúlia”
  • Slovenian: “Apulija”
  • Slovenian: “Puglia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پولیا”
  • Spanish: “Apulia”
  • Spanish: “Región de Apulia”
  • Swahili: “Puglia”
  • Swedish: “Apulien”
  • Swedish: “Puglia”
  • Swiss German: “Apulien”
  • Tagalog: “Apulia”
  • Tajik: “Апулия”
  • Tamil: “அப்பூலியா”
  • Tatar: “Апулия”
  • Tatar: “Пулия”
  • Thai: “แคว้นปุลยา”
  • Thai: “แคว้นปูลยา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Apulien”
  • Turkish: “Puglia Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Puglia”
  • Turkish: “Pulya”
  • Ukrainian: “Апулія”
  • Urdu: “پلیہ”
  • Urdu: “پولیا”
  • Uzbek: “Apuliya”
  • Venetian: “Puia”
  • Venetian: “Puja”
  • Vietnamese: “Apulia”
  • Vietnamese: “Puglia”
  • Vlaams: “Apulië”
  • Walloon: “Pouyes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Apulia”
  • Welsh: “Puglia”
  • Western Frisian: “Apulje”
  • Western Frisian: “Apûlje”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ اپولیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “普利亚大区”
  • Yue Chinese: “蒲利亞”
  • “ma lili Puja”
  • “ma lili Pulija”
  • “ma Puja”
  • “ma Pulija”
  • “Pógglia”
  • “Pùgghie”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Apulia”. Photo: MatthiasKabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.