Southern Italy
Southern Italy, sometimes known as Mezzogiorno, encompasses five of Italy's twenty regions. From the bustling cities to the tranquil countryside, you will find something to love about this incredible region.
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Southern Italy
- Region
- …is also known as “Mezzogiorno”
- Description: macroregion of Italy
- Category: macroregion
- Location
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Latitude of center
39.53° or 39° 31′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
16.07° or 16° 4′ 12″ east
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Southern Italy” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Italia jugore”
- Arabic: “جنوب إيطاليا”
- Aragonese: “Mezzogiorno”
- Asturian: “Mezzogiorno”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənubi İtaliya”
- Basque: “Italiako hegoaldea”
- Basque: “Mezzogiorno”
- Breton: “Mezzogiorno”
- Bulgarian: “Медзоджорно”
- Bulgarian: “Южна Италия”
- Catalan: “Mezzogiorno”
- Chinese: “Italia Meridionale”
- Chinese: “Mezzogiorno”
- Chinese: “南意大利”
- Chinese: “意大利南部”
- Chinese: “義大利南部”
- Croatian: “Južna Italija”
- Czech: “Jižní Itálie”
- Czech: “Mezzogiorno”
- Dimli (individual language): “İtalya Veroci”
- Dimli (individual language): “İtalyay Veroci”
- Dutch: “Mezzogiorno”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Italië”
- Emilian: “Basitàglia”
- Esperanto: “Suda Italio”
- Estonian: “Il Mezzogiorno”
- Estonian: “Lõuna-Itaalia”
- Estonian: “Mezzogiorno”
- Finnish: “Mezzogiorno”
- French: “Italie du Sud”
- French: “Mezzogiorno”
- Galician: “Mezzogiorno”
- German: “Italia insulare”
- German: “Italia meridionale”
- German: “Süditalien”
- German: “Unteritalien”
- Greek: “Νότια Ιταλία”
- Hebrew: “דרום איטליה”
- Hebrew: “המצוג’ורנו”
- Hebrew: “מצוג’ורנו”
- Hungarian: “Dél-Olaszország”
- Indonesian: “Italia Selatan”
- Indonesian: “Mezzogiorno”
- Interlingua: “Mezzogiorno”
- Irish: “Deisceart na hIodáile”
- Italian: “Italia del sud”
- Italian: “Italia meridionale”
- Italian: “Meridione d’Italia”
- Italian: “Mezzogiorno d’Italia”
- Italian: “Mezzogiorno”
- Italian: “Terronia”
- Japanese: “メッツォジョールノ”
- Japanese: “南イタリア”
- Korean: “메초조르노”
- Korean: “이탈리아 남부”
- Latin: “Italia inferior”
- Latin: “Italia meridiana”
- Latin: “Italia meridionalis”
- Latvian: “Dienviditālija”
- Lithuanian: “Pietų Italija”
- Macedonian: “Јужна Италија”
- Macedonian: “Мецоџорно”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mezzogiorno”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mezzogiorno”
- Norwegian: “Mezzogiorno”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mezzogiorno”
- Ossetian: “Хуссар Итали”
- Persian: “ایتالیای جنوبی”
- Persian: “جنوب ایتالیا”
- Polish: “Mezzogiorno”
- Portuguese: “Itália Meridional”
- Portuguese: “Mezzogiorno”
- Portuguese: “Sul da Itália”
- Romanian: “Italia de Sud”
- Romanian: “Mezzogiorno”
- Russian: “Медзоджорно”
- Russian: “Меццоджорно”
- Russian: “Южная Италия”
- Sardinian: “Mezzogiorno”
- Serbian: “Јужна Италија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Italia Meridionale”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Južna Italija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mezzogiorno”
- Sicilian: “Italia dû Sud”
- Sicilian: “Italia miridiunali”
- Slovenian: “Južna Italija”
- Slovenian: “Mezzogiorno”
- Spanish: “Mezzogiorno”
- Swedish: “Mezzogiorno”
- Tagalog: “Katimugang Italya”
- Turkish: “Güney İtalya”
- Turkish: “Mezzogiorno”
- Ukrainian: “Нижня Італія”
- Ukrainian: “Південна Італія”
- Urdu: “جنوبی اٹلی”
- Venetian: “Mezodì”
- Vietnamese: “Nam Ý”
- Welsh: “De’r Eidal”
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