Campania
Campania is a region of Southern Italy, famous for the spectacular Amalfi Coast. Mount Vesuvius, an active volcano, towers over the area and has been the source of death, destruction but also preservation and fertile soil for crops and livestock for thousands…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Naples and Vesuvius.
Naples
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Naples in Italy is an ancient port on the Mediterranean sea. With just short of a million citizens, is the third most populous municipality. Metropolitan Naples is one of Italy's largest metropolitan areas, at three million citizens.
Vesuvius
Pompeii
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Pompeii is in Campania, Italy, not far from Naples. The ruined ancient Roman city of the same name was engulfed by Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Destinations to Discover
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Metropolitan Naples
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The Metropolitan City of Naples is a political entity in the Campania region of Italy. With 4.25 million inhabitants, it is Italy's third largest metropolis behind Rome and Milan. Naples itself has just short of a million citizens, and an incredible amount of monuments and churches.
Salerno
Avellino
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Avellino Province or Irpinia is in Campania, Italy. The provincial territory includes four cities of art, notable for their historical and cultural importance: Ariano Irpino, Avellino, Mirabella Eclano and Montella.
Benevento
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Benevento is a city and comune of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, 50 kilometres northeast of Naples. It is situated on a hill 130 metres above sea level at the confluence of the Calore Irpino and the Sabato.
Caserta
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Caserta is a city in Campania. Its main attraction is the UNESCO World Heritage Site called Palazzo Reale. During Italian summer holidays it can get quite packed. During the rest of the year it is a sleepy town.
Campania
- Type: State with 5,830,000 residents
- Description: region in Southern Italy
- Also known as: “CAM”, “Campania, Italy”, and “Region of Campania”
- Historically known as: “Conia” and “Koni”
- Neighbors: Apulia, Basilicata, Lazio, and Molise
- Categories: region of Italy and locality
- Location: Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude of center
40.8607° or 40° 51′ 38″ northLongitude of center
14.844° or 14° 50′ 38″ eastPopulation
5,830,000Elevation
879 metres (2,884 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1781917317OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Campania” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kampanië”
- Albanian: “Kampania”
- Amharic: “ካምፓንያ”
- Arabic: “قمبانية”
- Arabic: “كامبانيا”
- Arabic: “كمبانيا”
- Arabic: “كمبانية”
- Aragonese: “Campania”
- Armenian: “Կամպանիա”
- Arpitan: “Campania”
- Arpitan: “Campanie”
- Asturian: “Campania”
- Azerbaijani: “Kampaniya”
- Balinese: “Campania”
- Basque: “Campania”
- Belarusian: “Кампанія (Італія)”
- Belarusian: “Кампанія (рэгіён)”
- Belarusian: “Кампанія”
- Bengali: “কাম্পানিয়া”
- Bosnian: “Kampanija”
- Breton: “Campania”
- Bulgarian: “Кампания”
- Catalan: “Campània”
- Cebuano: “Campania”
- Central Bikol: “Campania”
- Chechen: “Кампани (Итали)”
- Chechen: “Кампани”
- Chinese: “Campania”
- Chinese: “坎帕尼亚”
- Chinese: “坎帕尼亞”
- Chinese: “坎帕尼亞大區”
- Chinese: “甘帕尼亞”
- Chuvash: “Кампани”
- Cornish: “Kampani”
- Corsican: “Campania”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kampaniya (region)”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kampaniya”
- Croatian: “Kampanija”
- Czech: “Kampánie”
- Danish: “Campania”
- Dimli (individual language): “Campaniya”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kampaniya”
- Dutch: “Campania”
- Dutch: “Campanië”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كامبانيا”
- Esperanto: “Kampanio”
- Estonian: “Campania”
- Finnish: “Campania”
- French: “Campanie”
- Friulian: “Campanie”
- Galician: “Campania”
- Georgian: “კამპანია”
- German: “Kampanien”
- German: “Region Kampanien”
- Greek: “Καμπανία Ιταλίας”
- Greek: “Καμπανία”
- Hakka Chinese: “Campania”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kham-pha-nì-â”
- Hebrew: “קמפניה”
- Hindi: “कांपानिया”
- Hungarian: “Campania”
- Icelandic: “Kampanía”
- Ido: “Kampania”
- Indonesian: “Campania”
- Interlingua: “Campania”
- Irish: “Campania”
- Italian: “Campania”
- Italian: “Regione Campania”
- Japanese: “カンパーニア州”
- Japanese: “カンパーニャ州”
- Japanese: “カンパニア州”
- Javanese: “Campania”
- Kazakh: “Кампания”
- Kikuyu: “Campania”
- Korean: “캄파니아 주”
- Korean: “캄파니아”
- Korean: “캄파니아주”
- Kurdish: “Campania”
- Kurdish: “Kampaniya”
- Ladin: “Campania”
- Ladino: “Kampania”
- Latin: “Campania”
- Latvian: “Kampānija”
- Ligurian: “Campannia”
- Limburgan: “Campanië”
- Lithuanian: “Kampanija”
- Lombard: “Campania”
- Low German: “Kampanie”
- Low German: “Kampanien”
- Luxembourgish: “Kampanien”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Campania”
- Macedonian: “Кампанија”
- Malay: “Campania”
- Maltese: “Campania”
- Maltese: “Kampanja”
- Marathi: “कांपानिया”
- Mazanderani: “کامپانیا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Campania”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Campania”
- Mingrelian: “კამპანია (იტალია)”
- Mingrelian: “კამპანია”
- Neapolitan: “Campania”
- Northern Frisian: “Kampaanien”
- Northern Sami: “Campania”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Campania”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Campania”
- Norwegian: “Campania”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Campània”
- Ossetian: “Кампани”
- Pampanga: “Campania”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਂਪਾਨੀਆ”
- Persian: “کامپانیا”
- Picard: “Campanie”
- Piemontese: “Campania”
- Polish: “Kampania”
- Portuguese: “Campânia”
- Romanian: “Campania”
- Russian: “Кампания”
- Sardinian: “Campania”
- Sardinian: “Campània”
- Scots: “Campanie”
- Scots: “Region o Campanie”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Campania”
- Serbian: “Кампанија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kampanija”
- Sicilian: “Campania”
- Slovak: “Kampánia”
- Slovenian: “Kampanija”
- South Azerbaijani: “کامپانیا”
- Spanish: “Campania”
- Spanish: “Región de Campania”
- Swahili: “Campania”
- Swedish: “Kampanien”
- Swiss German: “Kampanie”
- Swiss German: “Kampanien”
- Tagalog: “Campania”
- Tatar: “Кампания”
- Thai: “แคว้นกัมปาเนีย”
- Thai: “แคว้นคัมปาเนีย”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kampanien”
- Turkish: “Campania Özerk Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Campania”
- Ukrainian: “Кампанія”
- Urdu: “کمپانیا”
- Urdu: “کمپانیہ”
- Venetian: “Canpania”
- Venetian: “Canpània”
- Vietnamese: “Campania”
- Vlaams: “Campanië”
- Waray (Philippines): “Campania”
- Welsh: “Campania”
- Western Armenian: “Քամփանիա”
- Western Frisian: “Kampaanje”
- Western Frisian: “Kampanje”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ کیمپانیا”
- Wu Chinese: “坎帕尼亚大区”
- Yue Chinese: “甘帕尼亞”
- “Cambanie”
- “Campania”
- “Campània”
- “ma Kanpanja”
- “ma lili Kanpanja”
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