Naples

Naples in is an ancient port on the Mediterranean sea. With just short of a million citizens, is the third most populous municipality. is one of Italy's largest metropolitan areas, at three million citizens.
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  • Type: City with 972,000 residents
  • Description: city and commune in Campania, Italy
  • Also known as: Napoli” and “Neapolis
  • Historically known as: Parthenope
  • Postal code: 80133
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Teatro di San Carlo and Castel dell’Ovo.

Theater building
The Real , as originally named by the Bourbon monarchy but today known simply as the Teatro San Carlo, is a historic opera house in Naples, Italy, connected to the and adjacent to the .

Castle
Castel dell'Ovo is a seafront castle in Naples, located on the former island of Megaride, now a peninsula, on the in Italy. The castle's name comes from a legend about the Roman poet Virgil, who had a reputation in the Middle Ages as a great sorcerer and predictor of the future.

Castle
Photo: Lalupa, CC BY 3.0.
Castel Sant'Elmo is a medieval fortress located on adjacent to the , overlooking Naples, Italy. The name "Sant'Elmo" derives from a former 10th-century church dedicated to Sant'Erasmo, shortened to "Ermo" and, finally altered to "Elmo".

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arenella and Fuorigrotta.

Suburb
Photo: Inviaggiocommons, Public domain.
is a quarter of Naples, southern Italy. It is on the hill above the city and was, 300 meters in elevation. Many years ago was considered a place to go to "get away from it all".

Suburb
is a western suburb of Naples, southern Italy. Covering an area of 6,2 km2, it is the most populated suburb of the city.

Suburb
is a district of Naples, Italy. It incorporates the precise geographical center of the ancient Greco-Roman city, centered on the intersection of Via San Gregorio Armeno and Via dei Tribunali.

Naples

Latitude
40.8359° or 40° 50′ 9″ north
Longitude
14.2488° or 14° 14′ 56″ east
Population
972,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
NAP
United Nations Location Code
IT NAP
Open location code
8FGPR6PX+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 428339558
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3172394
Wiki­data ID
Q2634
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Naples” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Napels
  • Albanian: Napoli
  • Amharic: ናፖሊ
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): Νεάπολις
  • Arabic: نابولي
  • Aragonese: Nápols
  • Armenian: Նեապոլ
  • Arpitan: Naple
  • Asturian: Nápoles
  • Asturian: Napoli
  • Aymara: Napoli
  • Azerbaijani: Napoli
  • Azerbaijani: Neapol
  • Balinese: Napoli
  • Basque: Napoli
  • Belarusian: Неапаль
  • Belarusian: Нэапаль
  • Bengali: নাপোলি
  • Bengali: নেপলস
  • Bosnian: Napulj
  • Breton: Naplez
  • Breton: Napoli
  • Bulgarian: Неапол
  • Catalan: Nàpols
  • Cebuano: Napoles
  • Central Bikol: Napoles
  • Central Kurdish: ناپۆلی
  • Chechen: Неаполь
  • Chinese: Napoli
  • Chinese: 帕爾忒諾珀
  • Chinese: 帕耳忒诺珀
  • Chinese: 拿坡利
  • Chinese: 拿坡里
  • Chinese: 拿波里
  • Chinese: 那不勒斯
  • Chinese: 那波利
  • Chuvash: Неаполь
  • Corsican: Napoli
  • Corsican: Napuli
  • Crimean Tatar: Neapol
  • Croatian: Napulj
  • Czech: Neapol
  • Danish: Napoli
  • Dimli (individual language): Napoli
  • Dutch: Napels
  • Eastern Mari: Неаполь
  • Egyptian Arabic: نابولى
  • Esperanto: Napolo
  • Estonian: Napoli
  • Extremaduran: Nápoli
  • Faroese: Napoli
  • Finnish: Napoli
  • French: Naples
  • French: Napoli
  • Friulian: Napoli
  • Friulian: Napuli
  • Galician: Nápoles
  • Georgian: ნეაპოლი
  • German: Naples
  • German: Napoli
  • German: Neapel
  • Greek: Νάπολη
  • Greek: Νεάπολη
  • Greek: Νεάπολις
  • Gujarati: નેપલ્સ
  • Hakka Chinese: Nâ-put-le̍t-sṳ̂
  • Hakka Chinese: Napoli
  • Hausa: Napoli
  • Hebrew: נאפולי
  • Hebrew: נפולי
  • Hindi: नापोलि
  • Hindi: नेपल्स
  • Hungarian: Nápoly
  • Icelandic: Napólí
  • Ido: Napoli
  • Inari Sami: Napoli
  • Indonesian: Napoli
  • Interlingua: Neapole
  • Interlingue: Napoli
  • Irish: Napoli
  • Italian: Napoli
  • Italian: Napule
  • Japanese: ナポリ
  • Japanese: ネイプルズ
  • Javanese: Napoli
  • Kabyle: Napuli
  • Kannada: ನಪೋಲಿ
  • Kannada: ನೇಪಲ್ಸ್
  • Kara-Kalpak: Neapol
  • Kazakh: Неаполь қаласы
  • Kazakh: Неаполь
  • Kirghiz: Неаполь
  • Komi: Неаполь
  • Korean: 나폴리
  • Kotava: Napoli
  • Kurdish: Napoli
  • Kurdish: Napolî
  • Ladin: Napoli
  • Ladino: Napoli
  • Latin: Neapolis
  • Latvian: Neapole
  • Lezghian: Неаполь
  • Ligurian: Napoli
  • Ligurian: Nàpoli
  • Ligurian: Nappoli
  • Limburgan: Napels
  • Lingala: Nápoli
  • Literary Chinese: 那不勒斯
  • Lithuanian: Neapolis
  • Lombard: Napoli
  • Lombard: Napul
  • Low German: Napels
  • Low German: Neapel
  • Luxembourgish: Neapel
  • Macedonian: Неапол
  • Malagasy: Napoli
  • Malay: Napoli
  • Malayalam: നാപ്പൊളി
  • Maltese: Napli
  • Maltese: Napoli
  • Maltese: Neapolis
  • Maori: Nāpori
  • Marathi: नापोली
  • Mazanderani: ناپولی
  • Min Nan Chinese: Napoli
  • Mingrelian: ნეაპოლი
  • Moksha: Наполи
  • Mongolian: Неаполь
  • Narom: Napoules
  • Neapolitan: Napule
  • Nepali: नापोली
  • Nepali: नेपल्स
  • Newari: नेपल्स
  • Northern Frisian: Neapel
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Napoli
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Napoli
  • Norwegian: Napoli
  • Occitan (post 1500): Nàpols
  • Ossetian: Неаполь
  • Pampanga: Naples
  • Papiamento: Napoli
  • Pennsylvania German: Napols
  • Persian: ناپل
  • Picard: Napoule
  • Piemontese: Nàpoli
  • Polish: Neapol
  • Portuguese: Nápoles
  • Pushto: ناپل
  • Quechua: Napoli
  • Quechua: Napuli
  • Romanian: Napoli
  • Romanian: Neapole
  • Romansh: Napoli
  • Russian: Неаполь
  • Rusyn: Неаполь
  • Sakizaya: Na-pu-li 拿波里
  • Samogitian: Neapuolės
  • Sanskrit: नापोली
  • Saraiki: نیپلس
  • Sardinian: Nàpoli
  • Scots: Naples
  • Scottish Gaelic: Napoli
  • Serbian: Напуљ
  • Serbo-Croatian: Napulj
  • Sicilian: Nàpuli
  • Silesian: Napoli
  • Sinhala: නේපල්ස්
  • Slovak: Neapol
  • Slovenian: Neapelj
  • South Azerbaijani: ناپول
  • Spanish: Napoles
  • Spanish: Nápoles
  • Swahili: Napoli
  • Swedish: Neapel
  • Swiss German: Neapel
  • Tagalog: Napoles
  • Tagalog: Napoli
  • Tajik: Неапол
  • Talysh: Neapol
  • Tamil: நாபொலி
  • Tamil: நேபல்ஸ்
  • Tamil: நேபிள்ஸ்
  • Tatar: Наполи
  • Telugu: నేపుల్స్
  • Thai: นาโปลี
  • Thai: เนเปิลส์
  • Tosk Albanian: Neapel
  • Turkish: Napoli
  • Turkmen: Neapol
  • Twi: Napoli
  • Udmurt: Неаполь
  • Uighur: Naplés
  • Ukrainian: Неаполь
  • Upper Sorbian: Neapel
  • Urdu: ناپولی
  • Uzbek: Neapol
  • Venetian: Nàpułi
  • Veps: Napol‘
  • Veps: Napol’
  • Veps: Neapol‘
  • Vietnamese: Naples
  • Vietnamese: Napoli
  • Vietnamese: Neapolis
  • Vietnamese: Thành phố mới
  • Vlaams: Noapels
  • Vlax Romani: Naples
  • Volapük: Napoli
  • Waray (Philippines): Napoles
  • Welsh: Napoli
  • Western Armenian: Նափոլի
  • Western Armenian: Նէափոլ
  • Western Frisian: Napels
  • Western Panjabi: نیپلز
  • Wu Chinese: 那不勒斯
  • Xhosa: Naples
  • Yakut: Неаполь
  • Yiddish: נאפאלי
  • Yoruba: Naples
  • Yue Chinese: 拿坡利
  • Zeeuws: Napels
  • ma tomo Napoli
  • Nâpol
  • Napoli
  • Napule
  • Neapuolis

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