Gulf of Naples

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Gulf of Naples

The Gulf of Naples is located in the south western coast of Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
(province of Naples

Province of Naples

The Province of Naples is a Provinces of Italy in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital city is Naples, within the province there are 92 Comuni of the Province of Naples....
, Campania

Campania

Campania is a Regions of Italy of southern Italy in Europe. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy, its total area of 13,595 km? makes it the most densely populated region in the country....
region). It opens to the west into the Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea or Ocean off the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia....
. It is bordered on the north by the cities of Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
and Pozzuoli

Pozzuoli

Pozzuoli is a city of the province of Naples, in the Italy region of Campania. It is the main city of the Campi Flegrei....
, on the east by Mount Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius is an stratovolcano east of Naples Italy. It is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years, although it is not currently eruption....
, and on the south by the Sorrentine Peninsula

Sorrentine Peninsula

The Sorrentine Peninsula is a peninsula located in southern Italy that separates the Gulf of Naples to the north from the Gulf of Salerno to the south....
and its main town Sorrento

Sorrento, Italy

Sorrento is a small city in Campania, southern Italy, with some 16,500 inhabitants. It is a popular tourist destination. The town can be reached easily from Naples and Pompeii, as it lies at the south-eastern end of the Circumvesuviana rail line....
; the Peninsula separates it from the Gulf of Salerno

Gulf of Salerno

The Gulf of Salerno is a Headlands and bays of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the coast of the province of Salerno in south-western Italy. The northern part of this coast is the touristic Costiera Amalfitana, including towns like Amalfi, Maiori, Positano and the city of Salerno itself....
.

The islands of Capri

Capri

Capri is an Italy island off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples. It has been a resort since the time of the Roman Republic....
, Ischia

Ischia

Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples. The roughly trapezoidal island lies c. 30 km from Naples and measures around 10 km east to west and 7 km north to south with a 34 km coastline and a surface area of 46.3 km?....
and Procida

Procida

Procida is one of the Phlegrean fields off the coast of Naples in southern Italy. The island is between Cape Miseno and the island of Ischia. With its tiny satellite island of Vivara, it is a comune of the province of Naples, in the region of Campania....
are located in the gulf.

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The Gulf of Naples is located in the south western coast of Italy

Italy

Province of Naples

The Province of Naples is a Provinces of Italy in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital city is Naples, within the province there are 92 Comuni of the Province of Naples....
, Campania

Campania

Mediterranean Sea

Naples

Pozzuoli

Pozzuoli is a city of the province of Naples, in the Italy region of Campania. It is the main city of the Campi Flegrei....
, on the east by Mount Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius

Sorrentine Peninsula

The Sorrentine Peninsula is a peninsula located in southern Italy that separates the Gulf of Naples to the north from the Gulf of Salerno to the south....
and its main town Sorrento

Sorrento, Italy

Gulf of Salerno

Capri

Capri is an Italy island off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples. It has been a resort since the time of the Roman Republic....
, Ischia

Ischia

Procida

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
ruins of Pompeii

Pompeii

Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Ancient Rome town-city near modern Naples in the Italy region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei....
and Herculaneum

Herculaneum

Herculaneum is an ancient Roman Empire town, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano. Its ruins can be found at the co-ordinates , in the Italy region of Campania....
(destroyed in the A.D. 79

Year 79 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar....
eruption of Vesuvius) nearby. Before other ports came Naples was considered the port for Rome. Located southwest of italy the bay of naples also known as the gulf of naples is known for the tsunami that happened when mount.vesuvius erupted. The King of Naples was named Charles 2 of naples. The Bay of Naples is a total of 10 miles wide reaching all the was down to the mediteranian sea.