Mount Vesuvius

Summary

Mount Vesuvius is a Volcano^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.78% of volcano entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,036 views/month, #2 of 256).^[2]

Key Facts

• Mount Vesuvius is located in Metropolitan City of Naples^[3].
• Mount Vesuvius is in the country of Italy^[4].
• Mount Vesuvius's image is recorded as Il cratere del Vulcano - panoramio.jpg^[5].
• Mount Vesuvius's instance of is recorded as Volcano^[6].
• Mount Vesuvius's instance of is recorded as stratovolcano^[7].
• Mount Vesuvius's instance of is recorded as tourist attraction^[8].
• Mount Vesuvius's instance of is recorded as mountain^[9].
• Mount Vesuvius's made from material is recorded as tephrite^[10].
• Mount Vesuvius's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 246126882^[11].
• Mount Vesuvius's GND ID is recorded as 4108229-1^[12].
• Mount Vesuvius's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85142963^[13].
• Mount Vesuvius's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12039932b^[14].
• Mount Vesuvius's IdRef ID is recorded as 028595181^[15].
• Mount Vesuvius's Commons category is recorded as Mount Vesuvius^[16].
• Mount Vesuvius's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 40.82261, 'lon': 14.42919}^[17].
• Mount Vesuvius's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cmnc^[18].
• Mount Vesuvius's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ge292699^[19].
• Mount Vesuvius's significant event is recorded as eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79^[20].
• Mount Vesuvius's significant event is recorded as eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1861^[21].
• Mount Vesuvius's significant event is recorded as volcanic eruption^[22].
• Mount Vesuvius's significant event is recorded as Vesuvius eruption of 1906^[23].
• Mount Vesuvius's significant event is recorded as eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1944^[24].
• Mount Vesuvius's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mount Vesuvius^[25].
• Mount Vesuvius's Commons gallery is recorded as Vesuvio^[26].
• Mount Vesuvius's page banner is recorded as Mount Vesuvius Wikivoyage banner.jpg^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Mount Vesuvius include vesuvianite^[28], a mineral species^[29] and 13897 Vesuvius^[30], an asteroid^[31].

Why It Matters

Mount Vesuvius ranks in the top 0.78% of volcano entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,036 views/month, #2 of 256).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[32] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[33]

Entities named for it include vesuvianite^[28], a mineral species^[29] and 13897 Vesuvius^[30], an asteroid^[31].