Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius is a volcanic mountain in the Campania region of Italy, overshadowing the Bay of Naples.Photo: PaestumPaestum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Vesuvius National Park
Photo: Lobufalo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vesuvius National Park is an Italian national park centered on the active volcano Vesuvius, southeast from Naples.
Vesuvius
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,281 metres
- Description: volcano on the southwestern coast of Italy
- Categories: active volcano, stratovolcano, tourist attraction, mountain and landform
- Location: Ottaviano, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.8214° or 40° 49' 17" northLongitude
14.4262° or 14° 25' 34" eastElevation
1,281 metres (4,203 feet)Open Location Code
8FGPRCCG+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 4693682411OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=volcanoGeoNames ID
3164481Wikidata ID
Q524Vesuvius Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Vesuvius
- Albanian: Vezuvi
- Amharic: ደብረ ቬሱቪዩስ
- Arabic: Bukid Vesuvio
- Arabic: بركان فيزوف
- Arabic: جبل فيزوف
- Aragonese: Vesuvio
- Armenian: Վեզուվ
- Armenian: Վեզուվիօ
- Arpitan: Vèsuvo
- Arpitan: mont Vèsuvo
- Asturian: Vesubiu
- Azerbaijani: Vezuvi
- Bashkir: Везувий
- Basque: Vesuvio
- Belarusian: Везувій
- Belarusian: Вэзувіё
- Bengali: ভিসুভিয়াস পর্বত
- 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
- English: Mount Vesuvius
- 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: Όρος Βεζούβιος
- Greek: Βεζούβιος
- Hebrew: וזוב
- Hindi: वेसुवियस पर्वत
- Hungarian: Vezúv
- Icelandic: Vesúvíus
- Ido: Vesuvio
- Indonesian: Gunung Vesuvius
- Interlingua: Vesuvio
- Irish: An Veasúiv
- Irish: Sliabh Veasúive
- Italian: Vesaevus
- Italian: Vesbius
- Italian: Vesevius
- Italian: Vesuvinus
- Italian: Vesuvio
- Italian: Vesvius
- Italian: monte Vesuvio
- Japanese: ウェスウィウス
- 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
- Japanese: ヴェスヴィアス
- 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
- Javanese: Gunung Vesuvius
- Kazakh: Везувий
- Kirghiz: Везувий
- Korean: 베수비오산
- Kölsch: Vesuv
- 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: Vesuv
- Norwegian Bokmål: Vesuv
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Vesuv
- Occitan (post 1500): Vesuvi
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Uesuuius
- Pampanga: Bulkang Vesuvius
- Panjabi: ਮਾਊਂਟ ਵਿਸੂਵੀਅਸ
- Persian: وزوو
- Picard: Vésuve
- Polish: Wezuwiusz
- Portuguese: Vesúvio
- Romanian: Vezuviu
- Romansh: Vesuv
- Russian: Везувий
- Saraiki: ویسوویس
- Sardinian: Vesuvio
- Scots: Mount Vesuvius
- Serbian: Vezuv
- Serbian: Везув
- Serbo-Croatian: Vesuv
- Serbo-Croatian: Vezuv
- Sicilian: Visuviu
- Slovak: Vezuv
- Slovenian: Vezuv
- Spanish: Monte Vesubio
- Spanish: Vesubio
- Spanish: monte Vesubio
- Swahili: Vesuvio
- Swedish: Vesuvius
- Tagalog: Vesubio
- Tajik: Везувий
- Tamil: விசுவியசு மலை
- Tamil: வெசுவியஸ் மலை
- Thai: ภูเขาไฟวิซุเวียส
- Thai: ภูเขาไฟวิซูเวียส
- Thai: ภูเขาไฟวิสุเวียส
- Thai: ภูเขาไฟเวซูเวียส
- Thai: เขาวิซุเวียส
- Thai: เขาวิซูเวียส
- Thai: เขาวิสุเวียส
- Thai: เขาเวซูเวียส
- 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
Other Places Named Vesuvius
Localities in the Area
- Valle del GiganteLocality
- Atrio del CavalloLocality
- Valle dell'InfernoLocality
- Vallone del FicoLocality
- L'affaccioLocality
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. 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 Vesuvius. Photo: WmCheez, CC BY 3.0.