Corsica
Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea southeast of mainland France and west of Italy. It is a region of France. Corsica is one of the least-visited of the large Mediterranean islands, but has many attractions including historical sights, incredible landscapes and, on the coast at least, a dependably warm and sunny climate for most of the year.
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Corte
Corte is a commune in the Haute-Corse department, on the island of Corsica, France.
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Corsica
- Type: Region with 355,000 residents
- Description: French single territorial collectivity and island in the Mediterranean Sea
- Also known as: “Coletividade Territorial da Córsega”, “Collectivité de Corse”, “Collectivity of Corsica”, “Collettività di Corsica”, “Collettività territoriale di Corsica”, “COR”, “Cullettività di Corsica”, “FR-COR”, “Île de la beauté”, “Island of Beauty”, “Isula di a bellezza”, “Iye corsike”, “Kolektivitas Teritorial Korsika”, “Kollektiviteit Korsika”, “Korsikiska”, “Kosika”, “Territorial Collectivity of Corsica”, “y Chorsickey”, “yn Chorsickey”, “Κύρνος”, “Корсіка (рэгіён)”, “ኮርስ”, “कोरसे”, “กอร์ซีกา”, “กอร์ส”, “ประชาคมคอร์ซิกา”, “ประชาคมดินแดนคอร์ซิกา”, “コルシカ”, and “科西嘉島”
- Categories: region of France, territorial collectivity of France with special status, and cultural region
- Location: France, Europe
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Latitude of center
41.9886° or 41° 59′ 19″ north
Longitude of center
8.9983° or 8° 59′ 54″ east
Population
355,000
Elevation
795 metres (2,608 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Corsica” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Korsika”
- Albanian: “Korsika”
- Amharic: “ኮርሲካ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κορσίς”
- Arabic: “قرسقة”
- Arabic: “قَرْسَقَة”
- Arabic: “قرشقة”
- Arabic: “قـُرْشِقَة”
- Arabic: “كورسكا”
- Arabic: “كُورَسِكَا”
- Arabic: “كورسيكا”
- Arabic: “كُورَسِيكَا”
- Aragonese: “Corcega”
- Armenian: “Կորսիկա”
- Arpitan: “Corsa”
- Arpitan: “Corse”
- Asturian: “Córcega”
- Aymara: “Corse suyu”
- Azerbaijani: “Korsika”
- Balinese: “Korsika”
- Bashkir: “Корсика”
- Basque: “Korsika”
- Bavarian: “Korsika”
- Belarusian: “Корсіка”
- Belarusian: “Корсыка”
- Belarusian: “рэгіён Корсіка”
- Bengali: “কর্স”
- Bosnian: “Korzika”
- Breton: “Korsika”
- Bulgarian: “Корсика”
- Burmese: “ကော်စီကာ”
- Burmese: “ကော်ရ်ဆီကာကျွန်း”
- Catalan: “Còrsega”
- Cebuano: “Corse”
- Central Bikol: “Corsica”
- Central Kurdish: “کورسیکا”
- Chechen: “Корсика”
- Cherokee: “ᎪᏏᎧ”
- Chinese: “科西嘉”
- Chuvash: “Корсика”
- Cornish: “Corsica”
- Corsican: “Corsica”
- Crimean Tatar: “Korsika”
- Croatian: “Korzika”
- Czech: “Korsika”
- Danish: “Korsika”
- Dimli (individual language): “Korsika”
- Dutch: “Corsica”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كورسيكا”
- Emilian: “Còrsica”
- Esperanto: “Korsiko”
- Estonian: “Korsika”
- Extremaduran: “Córcega”
- Fiji Hindi: “Corsica”
- Finnish: “Korsika”
- French: “Corse”
- Gagauz: “Korsika”
- Galician: “Córsega”
- Georgian: “კორსიკა”
- German: “Korsika”
- Greek: “Κορσική”
- Guianese Creole French: “Kòrsika”
- Haitian: “Kors”
- Haitian: “Kòs”
- Hakka Chinese: “Corsica”
- Hausa: “Korsika”
- Hawaiian: “Kokika”
- Hebrew: “קורסיקה”
- Hindi: “कोर्सिका”
- Hungarian: “Korzika”
- Icelandic: “Korsíka”
- Ido: “Korsika”
- Indonesian: “Korsika”
- Interlingua: “Corsica”
- Interlingue: “Corsica”
- Irish: “an Chorsaic”
- Irish: “An Chorsaic”
- Italian: “Corsica”
- Japanese: “コルシカ島”
- Javanese: “Korsika”
- Jèrriais: “Corse”
- Kabyle: “Kursika”
- Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಸಿಕ”
- Kazakh: “Корсика аралы”
- Kazakh: “Корсика”
- Kirghiz: “Корсика”
- Korean: “코르시카”
- Kurdish: “Korsîka”
- Kurdish: “کۆرسیکا”
- Ladin: “Corsica”
- Ladino: “Korsega”
- Latin: “Corsica”
- Latvian: “Korsika”
- Ligurian: “Corsega”
- Limburgan: “Corsica”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Corse”
- Literary Chinese: “科西嘉”
- Lithuanian: “Korsika”
- Lombard: “Còrsega”
- Low German: “Korsika”
- Lower Sorbian: “Korsika”
- Luxembourgish: “Korsika”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Corsica”
- Macedonian: “Корзика”
- Malagasy: “Kôrsa”
- Malay: “Corse”
- Maltese: “Korsika”
- Manx: “Corsickey”
- Manx: “Yn Chorsickey”
- Maori: “Corsica”
- Marathi: “कॉर्स”
- Mazanderani: “کورسیا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Corse”
- Mingrelian: “კორსიკა”
- Mongolian: “Корсика”
- Moroccan Arabic: “قرشيقة”
- Neapolitan: “Corseca”
- Northern Frisian: “Korsika”
- Northern Luri: “میناوه کرس”
- Northern Sami: “Korsika”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Korsika”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Korsika”
- Norwegian: “Korsika”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Corsega”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Corsica”
- Ossetian: “Корсикæ”
- Pampanga: “Corsica”
- Pampanga: “Korsega”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਸਿਕਾ”
- Papiamento: “Corsica”
- Pennsylvania German: “Korsikaa”
- Persian: “جزیره کرس”
- Persian: “کرس”
- Persian: “کُرس”
- Picard: “Corse”
- Piemontese: “Còrsica”
- Polish: “Korsyka”
- Portuguese: “Córsega”
- Pushto: “کروسيکا”
- Quechua: “Corse”
- Romanian: “Corsica”
- Russian: “Корсика”
- Santali: “ᱠᱳᱨᱥᱤᱠᱟ”
- Sardinian: “Còssiga”
- Scots: “Corsicae”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Corsaca”
- Serbian: “Корзика”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Korzika”
- Shan: “ၶူဝ်းသိၵႃႇ”
- Sicilian: “Còrsica”
- Sindhi: “ڪورسيڪا”
- Sinhala: “කෝසිකා”
- Slovak: “Korzika”
- Slovenian: “Korzika”
- Somali: “Coorsica”
- South Azerbaijani: “کورسیکا”
- Spanish: “Córcega”
- Swahili: “Korsika”
- Swedish: “Korsika”
- Swiss German: “Korsika”
- Tagalog: “Corsica”
- Talysh: “Korsika”
- Tamil: “கோர்சிகா”
- Tatar: “Корсика”
- Thai: “คอร์ซิกา”
- Tibetan: “ཁོར་སི་ཁ་གླིང་ཕྲན།”
- Tsonga: “Corsica”
- Turkish: “Korsika”
- Uighur: “كورسىكا ئارىلى”
- Ukrainian: “Корсика”
- Upper Sorbian: “Korsika”
- Urdu: “کارسیکا”
- Urdu: “کورسیکا”
- Uzbek: “Korsika”
- Venetian: “Còrsega”
- Veps: “Korsik”
- Vietnamese: “Corse”
- Vlaams: “Corsica”
- Volapük: “Korsikeän”
- Walloon: “Côsse”
- Waray (Philippines): “Corse”
- Welsh: “Corsica”
- Western Armenian: “Քորսիքա”
- Western Frisian: “Korsika”
- Western Panjabi: “کارسیکا”
- Wu Chinese: “科西嘉岛”
- Yakut: “Корсика”
- Yiddish: “קארסיקע”
- Yue Chinese: “歌斯嘉”
- Yue Chinese: “科西嘉”
- Zeeuws: “Corsica”
- “Corse”
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