Taranto
Taranto is a city on the Ionian coast of Apulia, in southeastern Italy. With 200,000 inhabitants it is the third-largest city of Southern Italy and the second-largest city of the region, after the capital Bari.Photo: Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Kadellar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Taranto railway station
Photo: Haragayato, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Taranto railway station is the main station serving the city and comune of Taranto, in the region of Apulia, southern Italy.
Temple of Poseidon
Photo: Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Temple of Poseidon is a peripteral Doric temple of Magna Graecia located in the modern piazza Castello in the historic centre of Taranto, Italy.
Taranto
- Type: City with 201,000 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Categories: commune of Italy, big city, tourist destination, polis and locality
- Location: Taranto, Apulia, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.4712° or 40° 28' 17" northLongitude
17.2432° or 17° 14' 36" eastPopulation
201,000Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)IATA airport code
TARUnited Nations Location Code
IT TAROpen Location Code
8FGVF6CV+F7OpenStreetMap ID
node 68528603OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3165926Wikidata ID
Q13498Taranto Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Tarente
- Albanian: Tarenti
- Arabic: Taranto
- Arabic: تارانتو
- Arabic: طارنت
- Aragonese: Tarento
- Armenian: Թարանթօ
- Armenian: Տարանտո
- Asturian: Taranto
- Asturian: Tarento
- Azerbaijani: Taranto
- Basque: Tarento
- Belarusian: Таранта
- Bengali: টরেন্টো
- Bosnian: Tarento
- Breton: Taranto
- Bulgarian: Таранто
- Catalan: Tàrent
- Cebuano: Taranto
- Chechen: Таранто
- Chinese: Taranto
- Chinese: 塔兰托
- Chinese: 塔蘭托
- Chinese: 塔蘭託
- Chuvash: Таранто
- Corsican: Taranto
- Croatian: Taranto
- Czech: Taranto
- Czech: Tarent
- Danish: Taranto
- Dimli (individual language): Taranto
- Dutch: Tarente
- Egyptian Arabic: تارانتو
- English: Taras
- English: Tarentum
- Esperanto: Taranto
- Estonian: Taranto
- Finnish: Taranto
- French: Tarente
- Galician: Taranto
- Galician: Tarento - Taranto
- Galician: Tarento
- Georgian: ტარანტო
- German: Taranto
- German: Tarent
- Greek: Τάραντας
- Gujarati: ટારાન્ટો
- Hebrew: טאראנטו
- Hindi: टारान्टो
- Hungarian: Taranto
- Icelandic: Taranto
- Indonesian: Taranto
- Interlingua: Taranto
- Irish: Taranto
- Italian: Taranto
- Italian: Tarde
- Japanese: ターラント
- Kannada: ಟರಾಂಟೋ
- Kazakh: Таранто
- Kikuyu: Taranto
- Korean: 타란토
- Kurdish: Taranto
- Ladin: Taranto
- Latin: Tarentum
- Latvian: Taranto
- Lithuanian: Tarantas
- Lombard: Taranto
- Luxembourgish: Taranto
- Macedonian: Таранто
- Malay: Taranto
- Malayalam: ടാറന്റോ
- Maltese: Taranto
- Marathi: तारांतो
- Min Nan Chinese: Taranto
- Neapolitan: Taranto
- Norwegian: Taranto
- Norwegian Bokmål: Taranto
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Taranto
- Occitan (post 1500): Tarent
- Ossetian: Таранто
- Papiamento: Taranto
- Persian: تارانتو
- Piemontese: Tàranto
- Polish: Tarent
- Pontic: Τάραντας
- Portuguese: Taranto
- Portuguese: Tarento
- Quechua: Taranto
- Romanian: Taranto
- Russian: Таранто
- Sango: Taranto
- Sanskrit: तारंतो
- Sardinian: Tàrantu
- Scots: Taranto
- Serbian: Таранто
- Serbo-Croatian: Taranto
- Sicilian: Tàrantu
- Sinhala: ටරන්ටෝ
- Slovak: Tarent
- Slovenian: Taranto
- South Azerbaijani: تارانتو
- Spanish: Tarento
- Swahili: Taranto
- Swedish: Taranto
- Tagalog: Tarento
- Talysh: Taranto
- Tamil: தாரந்தோ
- Tatar: Таранто
- Telugu: టరంటో
- Thai: ตารันโต
- Turkish: Taranto
- Twi: Taranto
- Uighur: تارانتو
- Ukrainian: Таранто
- Urdu: تارانتو
- Uzbek: Taranto
- Venetian: Taranto
- Venetian: Tàranto
- Veps: Taranto
- Vietnamese: Taranto
- Volapük: Taranto
- Waray (Philippines): Taranto
- Welsh: Taranto
- Western Armenian: Թարանթօ
- Western Panjabi: ٹارنٹو
- Wu Chinese: 塔兰托
- Xhosa: Taranto
- Yue Chinese: 塔蘭托
- Zhuang: Taranto
Other Places Named Taranto
Localities in the Area
- BuffolutoVillage
- Quartiere Paolo VISuburb
- LamaSuburb
- San VitoSuburb
- TalsanoTown
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