Corsica
Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea southeast of mainland France and west of Italy. It is a region of France with a special constitutional status.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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Popular Destinations
Ajaccio
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Ajaccio is the capital of the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, home to 71,000 people.
Bastia
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Bastia is a city on the French island of Corsica. The small fortifications and pleasant harbour-side areas make for a nice stroll.
Bonifacio
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Bonifacio is a city at the south tip of Corsica. It has a spectacular location on white limestone cliffs, sculpted and undercut by the sea, so the buildings overhang the edge.
Destinations
Calvi
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Calvi is a city on the French island of Corsica and the biggest tourist centre of the island, despite not having much to see or do.
Porto-Vecchio
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Porto-Vecchio is a commune in the French department of Corse-du-Sud, on the island of Corsica.
Sartène
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Sartène is a town in South Corsica. Is one of the few Corsican towns that does not overlook the coast and is located 14 km from Propriano.
L'Île-Rousse
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L'Île-Rousse is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
Propriano
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Propriano is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.
Saint-Florent
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Saint-Florent is a small town of 1,681 on the French island of Corsica.
Nonza
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Nonza is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
Corsica
- Type: Region with 349,000 residents
- Description: French single territorial collectivity and island in the Mediterranean Sea
- Categories: region of France, territorial collectivity of France with special status and cultural region
- Location: France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
41.9886° or 41° 59' 19" northLongitude of centre
8.9983° or 8° 59' 54" eastPopulation
349,000Elevation
795 metres (2,608 feet)GeoNames ID
3023517Wikidata ID
Q14112Corsica Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Kursika
- Afrikaans: Korsika
- Albanian: Korsika
- Amharic: ኮርሲካ
- Amharic: ኮርስ
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Κορσίς
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Κύρνος
- Arabic: Corse
- Arabic: قرسقة
- Arabic: قرشقة
- Arabic: قـُرْشِقَة
- Arabic: قَرْسَقَة
- Arabic: كورسكا
- Arabic: كورسيكا
- Arabic: كُورَسِكَا
- Arabic: كُورَسِيكَا
- Aragonese: Corcega
- Armenian: Կորսիկա
- Armenian: Քորսիքա
- Arpitan: Corsa
- Arpitan: Corse
- Asturian: Corse
- Asturian: Corsica
- Asturian: Córcega
- Aymara: Corse suyu
- Azerbaijani: Korsika
- Balinese: Korsika
- Bashkir: Корсика
- Basque: Korsika
- Bavarian: Korsika
- Belarusian: Корсыка
- Belarusian: Корсіка (рэгіён)
- Belarusian: Корсіка
- Belarusian: рэгіён Корсіка
- Bengali: কর্স
- Bosnian: Korzika
- Breton: Korsika
- Bulgarian: Корсика
- Burmese: ကော်စီကာ
- Catalan: Còrsega
- Cebuano: Corse
- Central Bikol: Corsica
- Central Kurdish: کورسیکا
- Chechen: Корсика
- Cherokee: ᎪᏏᎧ
- Chinese: AF Corse车队
- Chinese: Corse
- Chinese: 歌斯嘉
- Chinese: 科西嘉
- Chinese: 科西嘉大區
- Chinese: 科西嘉岛
- Chinese: 科西嘉島
- Chuvash: Корсика
- Cornish: Corsica
- Corsican: Corsica
- Corsican: Cullettività di Corsica
- Corsican: Cullettività territuriale di Corsica
- Crimean Tatar: Korsika
- Croatian: Korzika
- Czech: Korsika
- Danish: Korsika
- Dimli (individual language): Korsika
- Dutch: Corsica
- Egyptian Arabic: كورسيكا
- Emilian: Còrsica
- English: COR
- English: Collectivity of Corsica
- English: Corse
- English: FR-COR
- English: Territorial Collectivity of Corsica
- Esperanto: Korsiko
- Estonian: Korsika
- Extremaduran: Córcega
- Finnish: Korsika
- French: Collectivité de Corse
- French: Corse
- French: Corsica
- French: FR-COR
- Gagauz: Korsika
- Galician: Córsega
- Georgian: კორსიკა
- German: Corse
- German: Corsica
- German: Korsika
- Greek: Κορσική
- Guianese Creole French: Kòrsika
- Haitian: Kors
- Haitian: Kòs
- Hakka Chinese: Corsica
- Hausa: Corsica
- Hausa: Korsika
- Hawaiian: Kokika
- Hawaiian: Kosika
- Hebrew: קורסיקה
- Hindi: कोरसे
- Hindi: कोर्सिका
- Hungarian: Korzika
- Icelandic: Korsíka
- Ido: Korsika
- Indonesian: Kolektivitas Teritorial Korsika
- Indonesian: Korsika
- Interlingua: Corsica
- Interlingue: Corsica
- Irish: An Chorsaic
- Irish: an Chorsaic
- Italian: Collettività di Corsica
- Italian: Collettività territoriale di Corsica
- Italian: Corsica
- Japanese: コルシカ
- Japanese: コルシカ島
- Javanese: Korsika
- Kabyle: Kursika
- Kannada: ಕಾರ್ಸಿಕ
- Kazakh: Корсика аралы
- Kirghiz: Корсика
- Korean: 코르시카
- Kurdish: Korsîka
- Kurdish: کۆرسیکا
- Ladin: Corsica
- Ladino: Korsega
- Latin: Corsica
- Latvian: Korsika
- Ligurian: Corsega
- Limburgan: Corsica
- Lingua Franca Nova: Corse
- Literary Chinese: 科西嘉
- Lithuanian: Korsika
- Lombard: Còrsega
- Low German: Korsika
- Lower Sorbian: Korsika
- Luxembourgish: Korsika
- Macedo-Romanian: Corsica
- Macedonian: Корзика
- Malagasy: Kôrsa
- Malay: Corse
- Manx: Yn Chorsickey
- Maori: Corsica
- Marathi: कॉर्स
- Mazanderani: کورسیا
- Min Nan Chinese: Corse
- Mingrelian: კორსიკა
- Mongolian: Корсика
- Moroccan Arabic: قرشيقة
- Narom: Corse
- Neapolitan: Corseca
- Northern Frisian: Korsika
- Northern Luri: میناوه کرس
- Northern Sami: Korsika
- Norwegian: Korsika
- Norwegian Bokmål: Korsika
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Korsika
- Occitan (post 1500): Corsega
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Corsica
- Ossetian: Корсикæ
- Pampanga: Corsica
- Pampanga: Korsega
- Panjabi: ਕਾਰਸਿਕਾ
- Papiamento: Corsica
- Persian: جزیره کرس
- Persian: کُرس
- Picard: Corse
- Piemontese: Còrsica
- Polish: Corse
- Polish: Corsica
- Polish: Korsyka
- Portuguese: Coletividade Territorial da Córsega
- Portuguese: Corse
- Portuguese: Corsica
- Portuguese: Córsega
- Quechua: Corse
- Romanian: Corsica
- Russian: Корсика
- Santali: ᱠᱳᱨᱥᱤᱠᱟ
- Sardinian: Còssiga
- Scots: Corse
- Scots: Corsica
- Scots: Corsicae
- Scottish Gaelic: Corsaca
- Serbian: Корзика
- Serbo-Croatian: Korzika
- Sicilian: Còrsica
- Slovak: Korzika
- Slovenian: Korzika
- Somali: Coorsica
- Somali: Korsikiska
- South Azerbaijani: کورسیکا
- Spanish: Córcega
- Swahili: Korsika
- Swedish: Korsika
- Swiss German: Korsika
- Tagalog: Corsica
- Talysh: Korsika
- Tamil: கோர்சிகா
- Tatar: Корсика
- Thai: คอร์ซิกา
- Tibetan: ཁོར་སི་ཁ་གླིང་ཕྲན།
- Tosk Albanian: Korsika
- Tsonga: Corsica
- Turkish: Korsika
- Uighur: كورسىكا ئارىلى
- Ukrainian: Корсика
- Upper Sorbian: Korsika
- Urdu: کورسکا
- Urdu: کورسیکا
- Uzbek: Korsika
- Venetian: Còrsega
- Veps: Korsik
- Vietnamese: Corse
- Walloon: Côsse
- Waray (Philippines): Corse
- Welsh: Corsica
- Western Armenian: Քորսիքա
- Western Frisian: Kollektiviteit Korsika
- Western Frisian: Korsika
- Western Panjabi: کارسیکا
- Wu Chinese: 科西嘉岛
- Yakut: Корсика
- Yiddish: קארסיקע
- Yue Chinese: 科西嘉
- Zeeuws: Corsica
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Corsica. Photo: Alixes, CC BY-SA 3.0.