Varese

Varese is a province in the region of between the Po Valley and the foot of the Alps on the international border with Switzerland.
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is a comune in the south-easternmost part of the province of Varese, in the region of , 35 kilometres north of . The economy of is mainly based on industry and commerce.

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is a city and comune of Alto Milanese of and of , northern Italy, in the Province of Varese. It has a population of 52.886 people.

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is a comune of , Italy, in the province of Varese. It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree in 1960. With an estimated population of 39351 inhabitants, it is the most densely populated among the big municipalities in its province.

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is a small town and comune near the border with on the eastern shore of , in the province of Varese, in the region of .

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is a town in the province of Varese, , . It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on 16 June 1959.

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is a city and comune located in the province of Varese, in the region of northern . It is located 15 kilometres from the city of , and according to the 2018 census, 's population was 18,983.

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is a comune in the province of Varese, in the region of . It lies in a mountainous region approximately 30 miles north of , in the foothills of the near the border between Italy and Switzerland.

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Laveno-Mombello is a town on the eastern shore of , in Varese Province, in the region of .

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is a town in the province of . It's not on the main tourist map and there are no real attractions in town, but there's a hotel and it can serve as a base just outside chaotic .

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is a comune in the province of Varese, in the region of , located about 60 kilometres northwest of and about 10 kilometres northwest of .

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was a comune of 2,000 inhabitants located in the province of Varese in the region , located in the Val Veddasca about 70 km northwest of and about 25 km northwest of .

Varese

  • Type: province of Italy with 882,000 residents
  • Description: province of Italy
  • Also known as: “Baretiensis”, “IT-VA”, “Province of Varese”, “provincia Baretiensis”, “Provins Varese”, “VA”, “Varese province”, “Varesotto”, “Варэзэ (правінцыя)”, “مقاطعة فاريزي”, and “వరీస్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Neighbors:
  • Location: , , ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
45.8° or 45° 48′ north
Longitude of center
8.8° or 8° 48′ east
Population
882,000
Elevation
245 metres (804 feet)
Abbreviation
“VA”
Geo­Names ID
3164697
Wiki­data ID
Q16299
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Varese” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Provinca e Varezes”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة فريزة”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة فَرِيزة”
  • Armenian: “Վարեզե”
  • Asturian: “Provincia de Varese”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vareze əyaləti”
  • Basque: “Vareseko probintzia”
  • Bavarian: “Provinz Varese”
  • Belarusian: “Варэзэ”
  • Belarusian: “правінцыя Варэзэ”
  • Bengali: “ভারেস প্রদেশ”
  • Breton: “proviñs Varese”
  • Breton: “Proviñs Varese”
  • Bulgarian: “Варезе”
  • Catalan: “província de Varese”
  • Catalan: “Província de Varese”
  • Cebuano: “Provincia di Varese”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ڤارێسێ”
  • Chinese: “瓦雷泽省”
  • Chinese: “瓦雷澤省”
  • Corsican: “Pruvincia di Varese”
  • Croatian: “okrug Vareze”
  • Czech: “Provincie Varese”
  • Danish: “Provinsen Varese”
  • Danish: “Varese”
  • Dutch: “provincie Varese”
  • Dutch: “Provincie Varese”
  • Dutch: “Varese”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Varese”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Varese”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Varezo”
  • Estonian: “Varese provints”
  • Finnish: “Varesen maakunta”
  • French: “Province de Varese”
  • French: “province de Varèse”
  • French: “Province de Varèse”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Varese”
  • Georgian: “ვარეზეს პროვინცია”
  • German: “Provinz Varese”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία του Βαρέζε”
  • Gujarati: “વરેસે પ્રાંત”
  • Hebrew: “וארזה”
  • Hindi: “वर्से प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “Varese megye”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Varese”
  • Interlingua: “Provincia de Varese”
  • Irish: “Cúige Varese”
  • Italian: “provincia di Varese”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Varese”
  • Italian: “Varese”
  • Japanese: “ヴァレーゼ県”
  • Javanese: “Provinsi Varese”
  • Kannada: “ವರೇಸ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Korean: “바레세도”
  • Ladin: “Provinzia de Varese”
  • Ladino: “Provinsia de Varese”
  • Latin: “Provincia Baretiensis”
  • Latin: “Provincia Varisiensis”
  • Latvian: “Varēzes province”
  • Ligurian: “provinsa de Vareise”
  • Ligurian: “Provinsa de Vareise”
  • Lithuanian: “Varezės provincija”
  • Lombard: “Pruvincia de Vares”
  • Luxembourgish: “Provënz Varese”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Varese”
  • Marathi: “वारेसे प्रांत”
  • Mazanderani: “نیورو اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Varese Séng”
  • Neapolitan: “Provinge de Varese”
  • Neapolitan: “Pruvincia ‘e Varese”
  • Neapolitan: “Pruvincia ’e Varese”
  • Northern Frisian: “Varese”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Varese”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Varese”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Varese-provinsen”
  • Norwegian: “Varese”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Varese”
  • Ossetian: “Варезе”
  • Persian: “استان وارزه”
  • Persian: “استان ورزه”
  • Piemontese: “Provincia ëd Varèis”
  • Polish: “prowincja Varese”
  • Polish: “Prowincja Varese”
  • Portuguese: “província de Varese”
  • Portuguese: “Varese”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Varese”
  • Russian: “Варесе”
  • Scots: “Province o Varese”
  • Serbian: “Варезе”
  • Serbian: “Округ Варезе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “okrug Vareze”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Varese”
  • Sicilian: “Pruvincia di Varesi”
  • Sinhala: “වරෙසේ පළාත”
  • Slovak: “provincia Varese”
  • Slovak: “Varese”
  • Slovenian: “Pokrajina Varese”
  • Spanish: “provincia de Varese”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Varese”
  • Swedish: “Provinsen Varese”
  • Swedish: “Varese”
  • Swiss German: “Provinz Varese”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Varese”
  • Tagalog: “Varese”
  • Tamil: “வாரேஸ் மாகாணம்”
  • Telugu: “వరీస్ ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดวาเรเซ”
  • Turkish: “Varese ili”
  • Turkish: “Varese”
  • Ukrainian: “Варезе”
  • Ukrainian: “Провінція Варезе”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ واریزے”
  • Uzbek: “Varese”
  • Venetian: “Provincia de Vareze”
  • Vietnamese: “Varese”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Varese”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Varese”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع واریس”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦雷泽省”
  • “ma lili Walese”
  • “provincia di Varese”

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