Puglia (region)

Japanese: プーリア[州](英語表記)Puglia
Puglia (region)
A region in southern Italy. It has an area of ​​19,347 km2 and a population of 4.07 million (1994). It occupies the southeastern part of the Italian peninsula, running along the Adriatic Sea, and the southern coast of the Salento Peninsula at the southeastern end faces the Gulf of Taranto on the Ionian Sea. It has five provinces: Foggia, Bari, Taranto, Brindisi, and Lecce, and its capital is Bari. In a mountainous Italy, this region is mostly plains or hilly plateaus, with only the Gargano Peninsula, which juts out into the Adriatic Sea in the northwest, and the borders with the Molise and Campania regions being mountainous, and there are only a few mountains over 1,000 m above sea level.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
イタリア南部の州。面積1万9347km2,人口407万(1994)。イタリア半島の南東部を占め,アドリア海に沿っており,南東端のサレント半島の南岸はイオニア海のターラント湾に臨んでいる。フォッジア,バーリ,ターラント,ブリンディジ,レッチェの五つの県があり,州都はバーリ。山がちなイタリアのなかで,この州はほとんどが平野もしくは台地上の丘陵で,北西部のアドリア海に突き出たガルガノ半島およびモリーゼ,カンパニア両州との境界が山地をなしている程度で,標高1000mを超える山はわずかである。

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