# Mount Etna

- **Country:** Italy
- **Coordinates:** 37.755000, 14.995000
- **Id:** 1427
- **Age:** 350,000–500,000 years
- **Area:** 19,237 ha
- **Type:** Composite volcano
- **Year:** 2013
- **Child:** yes
- **Listing:** Ultra
- **Criteria:** Natural: viii
- **Embedded:** {{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site
- **Location:** Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
- **Buffer Zone:** 26,220 ha
- **Elevation M:** 3403
- **Prominence M:** 3,403
- **Elevation Ref:** (varies)
- **Last Eruption:** 27 December 2025 (ongoing)
- **Label Position:** left
- **Prominence Ref:** Ranked 54th

Etna covers an area of with a basal circumference of . This makes it by far the largest of the four active volcanoes in Italy, being about two and a half times the height of the next largest, Mount Vesuvius. Only Mount Teide on Tenerife in the Canary Islands surpasses it in the whole of the European–North-African region west of the Black Sea.

![Photo of Mount Etna](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Mt_Etna_and_Catania1.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Etna (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)