Metropolitan Naples
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.| 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
Mount Vesuvius is a volcanic mountain in the Campania region of Italy, overshadowing the Bay of Naples.
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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Capri
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The small Italian island of Capri is 5 km from the mainland in the Bay of Naples, a celebrated beauty spot and coastal resort since the days of the Roman Republic until now. It is also part of Campania.
Sorrento
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Sorrento is in Campania. The town features beautiful architecture, many cafes and restaurants, and shops catering to tourists.
Pozzuoli
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Pozzuoli is a city and comune of the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the Italian region of Campania. It is the main city of the Phlegrean Peninsula.
Torre Annunziata
Torre Annunziata is a commune in Metropolitan Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. The Archaeological Area of Torre Annunziata is listed on UNESCO World Heritage List together with Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Herculaneum
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Herculaneum is a town close to Naples in Campania, Italy. It is named after the ruined Roman city which forms its main attraction. Herculaneum was destroyed by an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79, the same eruption that destroyed Pompeii.
Afragola
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Afragola is a city in Metropolitan Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. The city has a population of 65,000 and is the 92nd most populated Italian city.
Procida
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Procida is one of the Phlegraean Islands off the coast of Naples in southern Italy. The island is between Cape Miseno and the island of Ischia. With its tiny satellite island of Vivara, it is a comune of the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the region of Campania.
Ischia
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Ischia is the largest island in the bay of Naples and is considered by many to be the most beautiful, though Capri is considerably more famous. It is volcanic in origin and still classed as an active volcano, but it has not erupted since 1302.
Sant’Agnello
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Sant'Agnello is in the province of Naples in the Campania region, and is 49 kilometers from the city of Naples.
Massa Lubrense
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Massa Lubrense is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region of Campania, located about 25 kilometres southeast of Naples. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 13,404 and an area of 19.7 km2.
Metropolitan Naples
- Type: former province of Italy with 3,080,000 residents
- Description: former province in Italy
- Also known as: “Naples”, “Naples province”, “Napoli province”, “Province of Naples”, and “provincia di Napoli”
- Location: Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Metropolitan Naples” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Provinca e Napolit”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة نابُل”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة نابولي”
- Armenian: “Նեապոլ”
- Azerbaijani: “Neapol əyaləti”
- Basque: “Napoliko probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Неапаль, правінцыя”
- Belarusian: “Неапаль”
- Belarusian: “Нэапаль”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Неапаль”
- Bengali: “নেপলস প্রদেশ”
- Breton: “proviñs Naplez”
- Breton: “proviñs Napoli”
- Breton: “Proviñs Napoli”
- Bulgarian: “Неапол”
- Catalan: “Província de Nàpols”
- Cebuano: “Napoles”
- Chinese: “Napoli Séng”
- Chinese: “拿坡利省”
- Chinese: “那不勒斯省”
- Chinese: “那波利省”
- Croatian: “Napulj (pokrajina)”
- Croatian: “Napulj”
- Czech: “Provincie Napoli”
- Danish: “Napoli”
- Dutch: “Napels”
- Dutch: “Provincie Napels”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Napolo”
- Estonian: “Napoli provints”
- Finnish: “Napolin maakunta”
- French: “province de Naples”
- French: “Province de Naples”
- Galician: “Provincia de Nápoles”
- Georgian: “ნეაპოლის პროვინცია”
- German: “IT-NA”
- German: “Provinz Neapel”
- Greek: “Επαρχία της Νάπολης”
- Gujarati: “નેપલ્સ પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “נאפולי”
- Hindi: “नेपल्स प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Nápoly megye”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Napoli”
- Interlingua: “provincia Napoli”
- Irish: “Cúige Napoli”
- Italian: “Città Metropolitana di Napoli”
- Italian: “Napoli”
- Italian: “provincia di Napoli”
- Italian: “Provincia di Napoli”
- Japanese: “ナポリ県”
- Javanese: “Provinsi Napoli”
- Kannada: “ನೇಪಲ್ಸ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Korean: “나폴리도”
- Ladino: “Provinsia de Napoli”
- Latin: “Provincia Neapolitana”
- Latvian: “Neapoles province”
- Ligurian: “provinsa de Nappoli”
- Lithuanian: “Neapolio provincija”
- Lombard: “Pruvincia de Napoli”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Neapel”
- Macedonian: “Неапол”
- Malay: “Wilayah Naples”
- Malay: “Wilayah Napoli”
- Marathi: “नॅपल्ज़ प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Napoli Séng”
- Neapolitan: “Pruvincia ‘e Nàpule”
- Neapolitan: “Pruvincia ’e Nàpule”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Provinsen Napoli”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Napoli”
- Norwegian: “Provinsen Napoli”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Nàpols”
- Ossetian: “Неаполь”
- Persian: “استان ناپل”
- Piemontese: “Provincia ëd Nàpoli”
- Polish: “Prowincja Neapol”
- Portuguese: “Nápoles”
- Portuguese: “Província de Nápoles”
- Romanian: “Provincia Napoli”
- Russian: “Неаполь”
- Scots: “Province o Naples”
- Serbian: “Напуљ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Napoli”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Napulj”
- Sicilian: “Pruvincia di Nàpuli”
- Sinhala: “නේපල්ස් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Napoli”
- Slovenian: “Pokrajina Neapelj”
- South Azerbaijani: “ناپل اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Napoles”
- Spanish: “Nápoles”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Nápoles”
- Swedish: “Neapel”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Napoles”
- Tagalog: “Napoli”
- Tajik: “музофоти Неапол”
- Tamil: “நேபிள்ஸ் மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “నాపెల్స్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “నాపెల్స్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “เนเปิลส์”
- Turkish: “Napoli ili”
- Turkish: “Napoli”
- Ukrainian: “Неаполь”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Неаполь”
- Urdu: “صوبہ ناپولی”
- Uzbek: “Neapol”
- Venetian: “Provincia de Napułi”
- Venetian: “Sità metropołitana de Nàpułi”
- Vietnamese: “Napoli”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Napoli”
- Waray (Philippines): “Napoles”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع نیپلز”
- Wu Chinese: “那不勒斯省”
- Yue Chinese: “拿坡利省”
- “Provinge de Napule”
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