Taranto
Taranto is a city on the Ionian coast of Apulia, in southeastern Italy. With 200,000 inhabitants it is the third-largest city of Southern Italy and the second-largest city of the region, after the capital Bari.
- City with 201,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 15 metres (49 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code TAR
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as“Taras”“Tarentum”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Taranto railway station and Taranto Cathedral.
Taranto railway station
Railway station
Taranto railway station is the main station serving…
Temple of Poseidon
Archaeological site
The Temple of Poseidon is a peripteral Doric temple…
Taranto
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Latitude
40.4712° or 40° 28′ 17″ north
Longitude
17.2432° or 17° 14′ 36″ east
UN/LOCODE
IT TAR
Open location code
8FGVF6CV+F7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Taranto” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tarente”
- Albanian: “Tarenti”
- Arabic: “تارانتو”
- Arabic: “طارنت”
- Arabic: “طارنطس”
- Aragonese: “Tarento”
- Armenian: “Տարանտո”
- Asturian: “Taranto”
- Asturian: “Tarento”
- Azerbaijani: “Taranto”
- Basque: “Tarento”
- Belarusian: “Таранта”
- Bengali: “তারান্তো”
- Bosnian: “Tarento”
- Breton: “Taranto”
- Bulgarian: “Таранто”
- Catalan: “Tàrent”
- Cebuano: “Taranto”
- Chechen: “Таранто”
- Chinese: “塔兰托”
- Chinese: “塔蘭托”
- Chuvash: “Таранто”
- Corsican: “Taranto”
- Croatian: “Taranto”
- Czech: “Taranto”
- Czech: “Tarent”
- Danish: “Taranto”
- Dimli (individual language): “Taranto”
- Dutch: “Tarente”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تارانتو”
- Esperanto: “Taranto”
- Estonian: “Taranto”
- Finnish: “Taranto”
- French: “Tarente”
- Galician: “Taranto”
- Galician: “Tarento”
- Georgian: “ტარანტო”
- German: “Taranto”
- German: “Tarent”
- Greek: “Τάραντας”
- Gujarati: “ટારાન્ટો”
- Hebrew: “טאראנטו”
- Hindi: “टारान्टो”
- Hungarian: “Taranto”
- Icelandic: “Taranto”
- Indonesian: “Taranto”
- Interlingua: “Taranto”
- Irish: “Taranto”
- Italian: “Taranto”
- Italian: “Tarde”
- Japanese: “ターラント”
- Kannada: “ಟರಾಂಟೋ”
- Kazakh: “Таранто”
- Kikuyu: “Taranto”
- Kirghiz: “Таранто”
- Korean: “타란토”
- Kurdish: “Taranto”
- Ladin: “Taranto”
- Latin: “Tarentum”
- Latvian: “Taranto”
- Lithuanian: “Tarantas”
- Lombard: “Taranto”
- Luxembourgish: “Taranto”
- Macedonian: “Таранто”
- Malagasy: “Taranto”
- Malay: “Taranto”
- Malayalam: “ടാറന്റോ”
- Maltese: “Taranto”
- Marathi: “तारांतो”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Taranto”
- Neapolitan: “Taranto”
- Neapolitan: “Tarde”
- Northern Frisian: “Tarent”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taranto”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Taranto”
- Norwegian: “Taranto”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tarent”
- Ossetian: “Таранто”
- Papiamento: “Taranto”
- Persian: “تارانتو”
- Piemontese: “Tàranto”
- Polish: “Tarent”
- Pontic: “Τάραντας”
- Portuguese: “Taranto”
- Portuguese: “Tarento”
- Quechua: “Taranto”
- Romanian: “Taranto”
- Russian: “Таранто”
- Sango: “Taranto”
- Sanskrit: “तारंतो”
- Sanskrit: “त्रेंतो”
- Sardinian: “Tàrantu”
- Scots: “Taranto”
- Serbian: “Таранто”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Taranto”
- Sicilian: “Tàrantu”
- Sinhala: “ටරන්ටෝ”
- Slovak: “Tarent”
- Slovenian: “Taranto”
- Slovenian: “Tarent”
- South Azerbaijani: “تارانتو”
- Spanish: “Taranto”
- Spanish: “Tarento”
- Swahili: “Taranto”
- Swedish: “Taranto”
- Tagalog: “Tarento”
- Talysh: “Taranto”
- Tamil: “தாரந்தோ”
- Tatar: “Таранто”
- Telugu: “టరంటో”
- Thai: “ตารันโต”
- Tumbuka: “Taranto”
- Turkish: “Taranto”
- Twi: “Taranto”
- Uighur: “تارانتو”
- Ukrainian: “Таранто”
- Urdu: “تارانتو”
- Uzbek: “Taranto”
- Venetian: “Taranto”
- Venetian: “Tàranto”
- Veps: “Taranto”
- Vietnamese: “Taranto”
- Volapük: “Taranto”
- Waray (Philippines): “Taranto”
- Welsh: “Taranto”
- Western Armenian: “Թարանթօ”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹارنٹو”
- Wu Chinese: “塔兰托”
- Xhosa: “Taranto”
- Yue Chinese: “塔蘭托”
- Zhuang: “Taranto”
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