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Sardinia with its quintessential Mediterranean beauty, is mainly loved for swimming, boating, windsurfing, hiking, climbing, and camping, with coastal areas tending to become over touristed especially in the warmest month, August.
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is an Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of . It has about 146,627 inhabitants, while its metropolitan city, 16 other nearby municipalities, has about 417,079 inhabitants.

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is the second-largest city in the autonomous region of Sardinia in , as well as the capital and largest of its with 120,497 inhabitants as of 2025, and a functional urban area of about 260,000 inhabitants.

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is a beautiful town on the north-western shore of Sardinia, . It is best known for its beautiful beaches, unique food, and also for its heritage; in fact, it was known in the past as la Barceloneta sarda, little Sardinian Barcelona.

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Province of is the northern province of Sardinia. Visitors are drawn by its beautiful coastline, beach resorts, and historical sites.

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The province of is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia in . Its capital is the city of . There are 87 municipalities in the province.

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Province of South Sardinia is a province in Sardinia. The region is scattered with charming small villages, archaeological wonders such as menhirs and nuraghe, historic churches, and industrial tourism sites focused on the region's mining history.

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The province of is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia, Italy. Its capital is the city of . It has an area of 3,990.51 square kilometres, and, As of 2025, a total population of 144,832.

Sardinia

Latitude of center
40.0913° or 40° 5′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
9.0306° or 9° 1′ 50″ east
Population
1,680,000
Elevation
384 metres (1,260 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2523228
Wiki­data ID
Q1462
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Sardinia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sardinië”
  • Albanian: “Sardenja”
  • Amharic: “ሳርዲኒያ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σαρδώ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σαρδών”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة سردينيا”
  • Arabic: “ساردينيا”
  • Arabic: “سردانية”
  • Arabic: “سرديني”
  • Arabic: “سردينيا”
  • Arabic: “سردينية”
  • Arabic: “سردينيه”
  • Aragonese: “Cerdenya”
  • Armenian: “Սարդինիա”
  • Arpitan: “Sardègne”
  • Arpitan: “Sardêgne”
  • Asturian: “Cerdeña”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sardiniya”
  • Balinese: “Sardinia”
  • Basque: “Sardinia”
  • Bavarian: “Sardinien”
  • Belarusian: “Сардзінія”
  • Belarusian: “Сардынія”
  • Bengali: “সার্দিনিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Sardinija”
  • Breton: “Sardigna”
  • Bulgarian: “Сардиния”
  • Burmese: “ဆာဒင်းနီးယားကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “Sardenya”
  • Cebuano: “Cerdeña”
  • Central Bikol: “Sardinia”
  • Central Kurdish: “سەردینیا”
  • Chechen: “Сардини”
  • Cherokee: “ᏌᏗᏂᏯ”
  • Chinese: “Sardegna”
  • Chinese: “撒丁”
  • Chinese: “撒丁岛”
  • Chinese: “撒丁島”
  • Chinese: “薩丁尼亞”
  • Chinese: “薩丁尼亞島”
  • Chinese: “薩丁島”
  • Chuvash: “Сардини”
  • Cornish: “Sardayn”
  • Corsican: “Reghjone Autonoma di a Sardigna”
  • Corsican: “Regione Autonoma di a Sardegna”
  • Corsican: “Sardegna”
  • Corsican: “Sardigna”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sardiniya”
  • Croatian: “Sardinija”
  • Czech: “Sardinie”
  • Danish: “Sardinien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sardinya”
  • Dutch: “Sardinië”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сардиний”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سردينيا”
  • Esperanto: “Sardinio”
  • Esperanto: “Sardio”
  • Estonian: “Sardiinia maakond”
  • Estonian: “Sardiinia”
  • Extremaduran: “Cerdeña”
  • Faroese: “Sardinia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Sardinia”
  • Finnish: “Sardinia”
  • Finnish: “Sardinian alue”
  • French: “Région autonome de la Sardaigne”
  • French: “Sardaigne”
  • Friulian: “Sardegne”
  • Galician: “Sardeña”
  • Georgian: “სარდინია”
  • German: “Autonome Region Sardinien”
  • German: “Regione Autònoma de Sardigna”
  • German: “Regione Autonoma della Sardegna”
  • German: “Sardinien”
  • Greek: “Σαρδηνία”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Sadègn”
  • Haitian: “Sadèy”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sardegna”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sat-tên-tó”
  • Hausa: “Sardiniya”
  • Hebrew: “סרדיניה”
  • Hindi: “सारडीनिया”
  • Hindi: “सार्डिनिया”
  • Hungarian: “Szardínia (régió)”
  • Hungarian: “Szardínia”
  • Icelandic: “Sardinía”
  • Ido: “Sardinia”
  • Indonesian: “Sardinia”
  • Interlingua: “Sardinia”
  • Interlingue: “Sardinia”
  • Irish: “an tSairdín”
  • Irish: “An tSairdín”
  • Italian: “Regione Autonoma della Sardegna”
  • Italian: “Regione Sardegna”
  • Italian: “Sardegna”
  • Japanese: “サルデーニャ”
  • Japanese: “サルデーニャ州”
  • Japanese: “サルデーニャ自治州”
  • Japanese: “サルディニア”
  • Japanese: “サルディニア自治州”
  • Javanese: “Sardinia”
  • Kabyle: “Sardinya”
  • Kashubian: “Sardiniô”
  • Kazakh: “Сардиния”
  • Kinaray-A: “Serdenya”
  • Komering: “Sardinia”
  • Korean: “사르데냐 주”
  • Korean: “사르데냐”
  • Kurdish: “Sardînya”
  • Ladin: “Sardegna”
  • Ladin: “Sardenia”
  • Ladino: “Rejion de Sardenya”
  • Latin: “Sardinia”
  • Latvian: “Sardīnija”
  • Ligurian: “Sardegna”
  • Limburgan: “Sardinië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Sardinia”
  • Literary Chinese: “撒丁島”
  • Lithuanian: “Sardinija”
  • Lombard: “Sardegna”
  • Low German: “Sardinië”
  • Low German: “Sardinien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Sardiniska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sardinien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Sardinia”
  • Macedonian: “Сардинија”
  • Malagasy: “Sardinia”
  • Malay: “Sardinia”
  • Malayalam: “സാർഡീനിയ”
  • Maltese: “Sardegna”
  • Maltese: “Sardenja”
  • Manx: “Yn Tardeen”
  • Maori: “Hārinia”
  • Marathi: “सार्दिनिया”
  • Marathi: “सार्देन्या”
  • Mazanderani: “ساردنی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sardinia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sardegna”
  • Minangkabau: “Sardinia”
  • Mingrelian: “სარდინია”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سردينيا”
  • Neapolitan: “Zardegna”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sardiinien”
  • Northern Sami: “Sardinia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sardinia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sardinia”
  • Norwegian: “Sardinia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sardenha”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sardinia”
  • Ossetian: “Сардини”
  • Pampanga: “Sardinia”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਰਦੇਞਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Sardegna”
  • Persian: “ساردنی”
  • Persian: “ساردینیا”
  • Picard: “Sardaigne”
  • Piemontese: “Sardëgna”
  • Polish: “Sardynia”
  • Portuguese: “Sardenha”
  • Pushto: “ساردينيا”
  • Pushto: “ساردینیا”
  • Quechua: “Sardegna”
  • Romanian: “Sardinia”
  • Russian: “автономная область Сардиния”
  • Russian: “область Сардиния”
  • Russian: “Сардиния”
  • Rusyn: “Сардінія”
  • Sardinian: “Regione Autònoma de sa Sardigna”
  • Sardinian: “Regione Autònoma de Sardigna”
  • Sardinian: “Sardigna”
  • Sardinian: “Sardinnia”
  • Scots: “Sardinie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sardainia”
  • Serbian: “Сардинија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sardinija”
  • Sicilian: “Sardigna”
  • Silesian: “Sardyńijo”
  • Slovak: “Sardínia”
  • Slovenian: “Sardinija (dežela)”
  • Slovenian: “Sardinija”
  • Somali: “Sardiiniya”
  • Spanish: “Cerdeña”
  • Spanish: “Región de Cerdeña”
  • Swahili: “Sardinia”
  • Swedish: “Sardinien”
  • Swiss German: “Sardinie”
  • Tagalog: “Cerdeña”
  • Tagalog: “Sardinia”
  • Tajik: “Сардиния”
  • Talysh: “Sardinjə”
  • Tamil: “சார்தீனியா”
  • Tatar: “Сарденья”
  • Tatar: “Сардиния”
  • Telugu: “సార్డీనియా”
  • Thai: “แคว้นซาร์ดิเนีย”
  • Thai: “แคว้นซาร์เดญญา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Sardinien”
  • Tsonga: “Sardinia”
  • Turkish: “Sardinya Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Sardinya”
  • Uighur: “ساردىنىيە ئارىلى”
  • Ukrainian: “Сардинія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sardiniska”
  • Urdu: “ساردینیا”
  • Uzbek: “Sardiniya”
  • Venetian: “Sardegna”
  • Vietnamese: “Sardegna”
  • Vlaams: “Sardinië”
  • Volapük: “Sardineän”
  • Walloon: “Sardegne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sardinya”
  • Welsh: “Sardinia”
  • Western Frisian: “Sardynje”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ سارڈینیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “撒丁岛”
  • Yiddish: “סארדיניע”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩丁島”
  • Zeeuws: “Sardinië”
  • “ma lili Sasinja”
  • “ma lili Satenja”
  • “ma Sasinja”
  • “ma Satenja”
  • “Sardàggna”
  • “Sardegna”

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