Where is Pompeii
About Where is Pompeii Located
Explore the map to locate Pompeii on world map, it was an old city situated in what is now the Pompei comune near Naples in the Italy's Campania region. Pompeii, as well as Herculaneum and various villas in the neighboring area (like at Stabiae, Boscoreale), was covered under four to six meter (13 to 20 feet) of volcanic ash and pumice (a very light and porous volcanic rock) in the Mount Vesuvius Eruption in 79 AD.