Liguria
Liguria is one of the official regions of Northwest Italy, on the Ligurian Sea. 2,000 years ago the whole northwestern part of Italy, including what are now Piedmont and Lombardy, were inhabited by the Liguris, the people from whom this region gets its name.
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Liguria
- Location: Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
- Population: 1,560,000
- Latitude of center: 44° 30' (44.5°) north
- Longitude of center: 8° 50' (8.8333°) east
- Elevation: 697 meters (2287 feet)
- Neighbors: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont and Tuscany
- GeoNames ID: 3174725
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Other Names for Liguria
Afrikaans: Ligurië, Amharic: ሊጉርያ, Arabic: ليغوريا, Armenian: Լիգուրիա, Arpitan: Ligurie, Azerbaijani: Liquriya, Bavarian: Ligurien, Belarusian: Лігурыя, Bosnian: Ligurija, Bulgarian: Лигурия, Catalan: Ligúria, Chechen: Лигури, Chinese: 利古里亞, Chuvash: Лигури, Cornish: Liguri, Croatian: Ligurija, Czech: Ligurie, Dutch: Ligurië, Esperanto: Ligurio, Estonian: Liguuria, French: Ligurie, Friulian: Ligurie, Georgian: ლიგურია, German: Ligurien, Greek: Λιγουρία, Hakka Chinese: Li-kú-lî-â, Hebrew: ליגוריה, Hindi: लिगुरिया, Icelandic: Lígúría, Italian: Liguria, Japanese: リグーリア州, Kazakh: Лигурия
Korean: 리구리아 주, Latvian: Ligūrija, Lithuanian: Ligūrija, Lombard: Ligüria, Macedonian: Лигурија, Marathi: लिगुरिया, Mazanderani: لیگوریا, Northern Frisian: Liguurien, Occitan (post 1500): Ligúria, Ossetian: Лигури, Panjabi: ਲਿਗੂਰੀਆ, Persian: لیگوریا, Portuguese: Ligúria, Russian: Лигурия, Scots: Ligurie, Serbian: Лигурија, Serbo-Croatian: Ligurija, Slovak: Ligúria, Slovenian: Ligurija, Spanish: Liguria, Spanish: Región de Liguria, Swedish: Ligurien, Tamil: இலிகுரியா, Thai: แคว้นลิกูเรีย, Turkish: Ligurya, Ukrainian: Лігурія, Urdu: لیگوریا, Venetian: Łiguria, Western Frisian: Liguerje, Western Panjabi: صوبہ لیگوریا, Yue Chinese: 列古利亞, Regione Liguria
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