Corsica

Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea southeast of mainland France and west of . It is a region of with a special constitutional status.
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is the capital of the Mediterranean island of Corsica, home to 71,000 people. It is a sun-kissed tourist town with frequent visits by cruise ships.

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is a city on the island of Corsica. The small fortifications and pleasant harbour-side areas make for a nice stroll. It is a small city and good for pedestrians.

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is a city at the south tip of Corsica. It has a spectacular location on white limestone cliffs, sculpted and undercut by the sea, so the buildings overhang the edge.

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is a commune in the French department of , on the island of Corsica. is a medium-sized port city placed on a good harbor, the southernmost of the marshy and alluvial east side of Corsica.

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is a commune in the department, on the island of Corsica, France. It is the fourth-largest commune in Corsica after , , and .

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is a city on the island of Corsica and the biggest tourist centre of the island, despite not having much to see or do. Because of the Corsica's strategic location, has a rich and chequered history.

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is a village of Corsica in Haute-Corse department. is especially interesting for its past, of which exactly three monuments have survived: Roman ruins, a Genoese fort and a 16th-century church.

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is a town in South Corsica. It is one of the few Corsican towns that does not overlook the coast. The town allows good views across the valley.

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is a village in Corsica, to the north of . It sprawls from the top of a hill down to a small harbor. The town is best known for the Institute for Physics, just outside to the south, which hosts conferences and summer schools.

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L'Île-Rousse is a commune in the department of on the island of Corsica. It was founded in 1758 by Pasquale Paoli to create a port that would not be in the hands of the Genoese.

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is a commune in department on the island of Corsica, . Originally a fishing port located in the gulf of the same name, pleasure boats have now largely taken the place of fishing vessels.

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is a commune in the department of on the island of Corsica. It is situated on the Valinco Gulf.

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Sant'Antonino is a town in North Corsica perched at an altitude of 500 m on a granite peak near L'Île-Rousse and Calvi, between the sea and the mountains.

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is a commune in the French department of on the island of Corsica, France.

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is a commune in the department of on the island of Corsica.

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is on the western coast of Corsica, between Piana and Girolata. The village lies at the mouth of the Porto river, within the , a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Corsica

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)
Geo­Names ID
3023517
Wiki­data ID
Q14112
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Corsica” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Korsika”
  • Albanian: “Korsika”
  • Amharic: “ኮርሲካ”
  • Amharic: “ኮርስ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κορσίς”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κύρνος”
  • 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”
  • Asturian: “Corse”
  • Asturian: “Corsica”
  • Aymara: “Corse suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Korsika”
  • Balinese: “Korsika”
  • Bashkir: “Корсика”
  • Basque: “Korsika”
  • Bavarian: “Korsika”
  • Belarusian: “Корсіка (рэгіён)”
  • 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: “Corse”
  • Chinese: “歌斯嘉”
  • Chinese: “科西嘉”
  • Chinese: “科西嘉岛”
  • Chinese: “科西嘉島”
  • Chuvash: “Корсика”
  • Cornish: “Corsica”
  • Corsican: “Corsica”
  • Corsican: “Cullettività di Corsica”
  • Corsican: “Isula di a bellezza”
  • 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: “Collectivité de Corse”
  • French: “Corse”
  • French: “Corsica”
  • French: “FR-COR”
  • French: “Île de la beauté”
  • Gagauz: “Korsika”
  • Galician: “Córsega”
  • Georgian: “კორსიკა”
  • German: “Corse”
  • German: “Corsica”
  • German: “Korsika”
  • Greek: “Κορσική”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kòrsika”
  • Haitian: “Kors”
  • Haitian: “Kòs”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Corsica”
  • Hausa: “Korsika”
  • Hawaiian: “Kokika”
  • Hawaiian: “Kosika”
  • Hebrew: “קורסיקה”
  • Hindi: “कोरसे”
  • Hindi: “कोर्सिका”
  • Hungarian: “Korzika”
  • Icelandic: “Korsíka”
  • Ido: “Korsika”
  • Indonesian: “Kolektivitas Teritorial Korsika”
  • Indonesian: “Korsika”
  • Interlingua: “Corsica”
  • Interlingue: “Corsica”
  • Irish: “an Chorsaic”
  • Irish: “An Chorsaic”
  • Italian: “Collettività di Corsica”
  • Italian: “Collettività territoriale di Corsica”
  • Italian: “Corsica”
  • Japanese: “コルシカ”
  • Japanese: “コルシカ島”
  • Javanese: “Korsika”
  • 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: “Corse”
  • Manx: “Corsica”
  • Manx: “Corsickey”
  • Manx: “FR-COR”
  • Manx: “y Chorsickey”
  • Manx: “Yn Chorsickey”
  • Maori: “Corsica”
  • Marathi: “कॉर्स”
  • Mazanderani: “کورسیا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Corse”
  • Mingrelian: “კორსიკა”
  • Mongolian: “Корсика”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “قرشيقة”
  • Narom: “Corse”
  • 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: “Corse”
  • Polish: “Corsica”
  • Polish: “Korsyka”
  • Portuguese: “Coletividade Territorial da Córsega”
  • Portuguese: “Corse”
  • Portuguese: “Córsega”
  • Portuguese: “Corsica”
  • Pushto: “کروسيکا”
  • Quechua: “Corse”
  • Romanian: “Corsica”
  • Russian: “Корсика”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱳᱨᱥᱤᱠᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Còssiga”
  • Scots: “Corse”
  • Scots: “Corsica”
  • Scots: “Corsicae”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Corsaca”
  • Serbian: “Корзика”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Korzika”
  • Sicilian: “Còrsica”
  • Sinhala: “කෝසිකා”
  • Slovak: “Korzika”
  • Slovenian: “Korzika”
  • Somali: “Coorsica”
  • Somali: “Korsikiska”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کورسیکا”
  • Spanish: “Córcega”
  • Swahili: “Korsika”
  • Swedish: “Korsika”
  • Swiss German: “Korsika”
  • Tagalog: “Corsica”
  • Talysh: “Korsika”
  • Tamil: “கோர்சிகா”
  • Tatar: “Корсика”
  • Thai: “กอร์ซีกา”
  • Thai: “กอร์ส”
  • Thai: “คอร์ซิกา”
  • Thai: “ประชาคมคอร์ซิกา”
  • Thai: “ประชาคมดินแดนคอร์ซิกา”
  • Tibetan: “ཁོར་སི་ཁ་གླིང་ཕྲན།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Korsika”
  • 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”
  • Walloon: “Iye corsike”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Corse”
  • Welsh: “Corsica”
  • Western Armenian: “Քորսիքա”
  • Western Frisian: “Kollektiviteit Korsika”
  • Western Frisian: “Korsika”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارسیکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “科西嘉岛”
  • Yakut: “Корсика”
  • Yiddish: “קארסיקע”
  • Yue Chinese: “科西嘉”
  • Zeeuws: “Corsica”
  • “COR”
  • “Corse”
  • “Còrsica”
  • “FR-COR”

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