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Vesuvius

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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,281 metres
  • Description: active stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, Italy
  • Also known as: “Mount Vesuvius”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vesuvius National Park.

Nature reserve
Photo: Lobufalo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an Italian national park centered on the active volcano Vesuvius, southeast from . The park was founded on June 5, 1995, and covers an area of around 135 square kilometers all located within the .

Vesuvius

Latitude
40.8214° or 40° 49′ 17″ north
Longitude
14.4262° or 14° 25′ 34″ east
Elevation
1,281 metres (4,203 feet)
Open location code
8FGPRCCG+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4693682411
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
3164481
Wiki­data ID
Q524
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Vesuvius” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vesuvius”
  • Albanian: “Vezuvi”
  • Amharic: “ደብረ ቬሱቪዩስ”
  • Arabic: “بركان فيزوف”
  • Arabic: “جبل فيزوف”
  • Arabic: “فيزوف”
  • Aragonese: “Vesuvio”
  • Armenian: “Վեզուվ”
  • Arpitan: “mont Vèsuvo”
  • Arpitan: “Vèsuvo”
  • Asturian: “Vesubiu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vezuvi”
  • Balinese: “Gunung Vesuvius”
  • Bashkir: “Везувий”
  • Basque: “Vesuvio”
  • Belarusian: “Везувій”
  • Belarusian: “Вэзувіё”
  • Bengali: “ভিসুভিয়াস পর্বত”
  • Betawi: “Gunung Wèsuwius”
  • Bhojpuri: “माउंट विसुवियस”
  • Bhojpuri: “विसुवियस परबत”
  • Bhojpuri: “वेसुवियस परबत”
  • Bosnian: “Vezuv”
  • Breton: “Vesuvio”
  • Bulgarian: “Везувий”
  • Burmese: “ဗီဆူးဗီးယပ်မီးတောင်”
  • Catalan: “Vesubi”
  • Catalan: “Vesuvi”
  • Cebuano: “Vesuvius”
  • Central Bikol: “Bulkan Vesubio”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیای ڤێسوڤیوس”
  • Central Kurdish: “گڕکانی ڤێسوڤیوس”
  • Chinese: “維蘇威火山”
  • Chuvash: “Везуви”
  • Croatian: “Vezuv”
  • Czech: “Vesuv”
  • Danish: “Vesuv”
  • Dutch: “Vesuvius”
  • Eastern Mari: “Везувий”
  • Esperanto: “Vezuvio”
  • Estonian: “Vesuuv”
  • Faroese: “Vesuv”
  • Finnish: “Vesuvius”
  • French: “Mont Vésuve”
  • French: “Vesuve”
  • French: “Vésuve”
  • Friulian: “Vesuvi”
  • Galician: “Monte Vesuvio”
  • Georgian: “ვეზუვი”
  • German: “Vesuv”
  • Greek: “Βεζούβιος”
  • Greek: “Όρος Βεζούβιος”
  • Hebrew: “וזוב”
  • Hindi: “वेसुवियस पर्वत”
  • Hungarian: “Vezúv”
  • Icelandic: “Vesúvíus”
  • Ido: “Vesuvio”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Vesuvius”
  • Interlingua: “Vesuvio”
  • Irish: “An Veasúiv”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Veasúive”
  • Italian: “monte Vesuvio”
  • Italian: “Vesaevus”
  • Italian: “Vesbius”
  • Italian: “Vesevius”
  • Italian: “Vesuvinus”
  • Italian: “Vesuvio”
  • Italian: “Vesvius”
  • Japanese: “ヴェスヴィアス”
  • Japanese: “ウェスウィウス”
  • Japanese: “ヴェスヴィウス”
  • Japanese: “ヴェスヴィオ”
  • Japanese: “ヴェスヴィオス”
  • Japanese: “ヴェスヴィオ火山”
  • Japanese: “ベスビオ”
  • Japanese: “ベスビオス火山”
  • Japanese: “ベスビオ山”
  • Japanese: “ベスビオ火山”
  • Javanese: “Gunung Vesuvius”
  • Kazakh: “Везувий”
  • Kirghiz: “Везувий”
  • Kölsch: “Vesuv”
  • Korean: “베수비오산”
  • Lao: “ພູວິຊູເວຍສ”
  • Latin: “Vesuvius”
  • Latvian: “Vezuvs”
  • Limburgan: “Vesuvius”
  • Lithuanian: “Vezuvijus”
  • Low German: “Vesuvius”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vesuv”
  • Macedonian: “Везув”
  • Malagasy: “Vesovio”
  • Malay: “Gunung Vesuvius”
  • Malayalam: “വെസൂവിയസ് പർവ്വതം”
  • Maltese: “Vesuvju”
  • Marathi: “माउंट वेसुवियस”
  • Marathi: “व्हेसुव्हियस”
  • Mingrelian: “ვეზუვი”
  • Mongolian: “Везуви галт уул”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڤيسوڤيوس”
  • Narom: “Vésuve”
  • Neapolitan: “Vesuvio”
  • Nepali: “भेसुभियस पर्वत”
  • Nepali: “माउन्ट भेसुभियस”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vesuv”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vesuv”
  • Norwegian: “Vesuv”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vesuvi”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Uesuuius”
  • Ossetian: “Везувий”
  • Pampanga: “Bulkang Vesuvius”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਊਂਟ ਵਿਸੂਵੀਅਸ”
  • Persian: “وزوو”
  • Picard: “Vésuve”
  • Polish: “Wezuwiusz”
  • Portuguese: “Vesúvio”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Vezuviu”
  • Romanian: “Vezuviu”
  • Romansh: “Vesuv”
  • Russian: “Везувий”
  • Saraiki: “ویسوویس”
  • Sardinian: “Vesuvio”
  • Scots: “Mount Vesuvius”
  • Serbian: “Vezuv”
  • Serbian: “Везув”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vezuv”
  • Sicilian: “Visuviu”
  • Slovak: “Vezuv”
  • Slovenian: “Vezuv”
  • Spanish: “monte Vesubio”
  • Spanish: “Monte Vesubio”
  • Spanish: “Vesubio”
  • Swahili: “Vesuvio”
  • Swedish: “Vesuvius”
  • Tagalog: “Vesubio”
  • Tajik: “Везувий”
  • Tamil: “விசுவியசு மலை”
  • Tamil: “வெசுவியஸ் மலை”
  • Thai: “เขาวิซุเวียส”
  • Thai: “เขาวิซูเวียส”
  • Thai: “เขาวิสุเวียส”
  • Thai: “เขาเวซูเวียส”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาไฟวิซุเวียส”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาไฟวิซูเวียส”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาไฟวิสุเวียส”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาไฟเวซูเวียส”
  • Tibetan: “ཝེ་སུའུ་ཝེའོ་མེ་རི།”
  • Turkish: “Vezüv Yanardağı”
  • Uighur: “ۋېزۇۋىي”
  • Ukrainian: “Везувій”
  • Urdu: “کوہ ویسوویوس”
  • Uzbek: “Vezuviy”
  • Venetian: “Vezùvio”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Vesuvius”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Vesuvio”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Feswfiws”
  • Western Armenian: “Վեզուվիօ”
  • Western Frisian: “Fesuvius”
  • Western Frisian: “Vesuvius”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوہ ویسوویوس”
  • Wu Chinese: “维苏威火山”
  • Yiddish: “וועזואוו”
  • Yue Chinese: “維蘇威火山”
  • “nena ma Wesuwijo”
  • “विसुवियस परबत”

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