Place:Corse, France

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NameCorse
TypeDépartement
Located inFrance     ( - 1975)
Also located inCorse (région), France    
Contained Places
Commune
Afa
Aiti
Bonifacio
Calvi
L'Île-Rousse
General region
Agriates
Balagne
Castagniccia
Inhabited place
Aléria
Bastelica
Belgodère
Bocognano
Calacuccia
Cervione
Evisa
Ghisonaccia
Levie
Mariana
Piana
Pianotoli-Caldarello
Piedicroce
Pietracorbara
Porto
Saint-Florent
Sainte-Lucie de Porto-Vecchio
Santa-Maria-Siché
Solenzara
Sotta
Tavera
Valle-di-Rostino
Venaco
Vescovato
Vico
Vivario
Zicavo
Zonza
Unknown
Alata
Albitreccia
Altagène
Ambiegna
Appietto
Arbori
Argiusta-Moriccio
Arro
Aullène
Azilone-Ampaza
Azzana
Balogna
Bastelicaccia
Belvédère-Campomoro
Bilia
Conca
Corrano
Figari
Foce
Forciolo
Fozzano
Frasseto
Giuncheto
Granace
Grossa
Grosseto-Prugna
Guagno
Ocana
Olivese
Olmeto
Olmiccia
Orto
Osani
Ota
Palneca
Partinello
Pastricciola
Peri
Petreto-Bicchisano
Rezza
Viggianello
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Corsica (Upper , Southern) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of the French mainland, west of the Italian Peninsula and immediately north of the Italian island of Sardinia, which is the land mass nearest to it. A single chain of mountains makes up two-thirds of the island. As of January 2022, it had a population of 349,465.[1]

The island is a territorial collectivity of France. The regional capital is Ajaccio. Although the region is divided into two administrative departments, Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud, their respective regional and departmental territorial collectivities were merged on 1 January 2018 to form the single territorial collectivity of Corsica. As such, Corsica enjoys a greater degree of autonomy than other French regional collectivities; for example, the Corsican Assembly is permitted to exercise limited executive powers. Corsica's second-largest town is Bastia, the prefecture of Haute-Corse.

Corsica was ruled by the Republic of Genoa from 1284 to 1755, when it seceded to become a self-proclaimed, Italian-speaking Republic. In 1768, Genoa officially ceded it to Louis XV of France as part of a pledge for the debts it had incurred by enlisting France's military help in suppressing the Corsican revolt, and as a result France went on to annex it in 1769. The future Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, was a native Corsican, born that same year in Ajaccio: his ancestral home, Maison Bonaparte, is today a visitor attraction and museum. Because of Corsica's historical ties to Tuscany, the island has retained many Italian cultural elements and many Corsican surnames are rooted in the Italian peninsula. Corsican, the native tongue, is recognised as one of France's regional languages. Corsica is the smallest Metropolitan French region by population, and the third-smallest overall after Mayotte and French Guiana.

This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Corsica. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
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