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Municipalities around Vesuvius

Source: R/data_doc_df_geology.R
df_geology_vesuvius_municipalities.Rd

The municipalities within 40 km of the crater of Vesuvius with their population and whether they belong to the red zone of the national emergency plan (the area to evacuate before an eruption, threatened by pyroclastic flows).

Usage

df_geology_vesuvius_municipalities

Format

An sf object with 6 columns and 258 rows

code

ISTAT municipality code

name

Municipality

province

Province

population

Population on 1 January 2026 (ISTAT estimate)

red_zone

"entirely", "partly" (Napoli, Nola and Pomigliano d'Arco) or "no"

geometry

Polygons in UTM 33N (EPSG:32633)

Source

ISTAT, generalised administrative boundaries and resident population on 1 January 2026 https://www.istat.it/; red zone: Direttiva del Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri of 14 February 2014 (Gazzetta Ufficiale of 12 May 2014)