Lipari Island

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Lipari (LIP-ər-ee, [ˈliːpari], Sicilian: Lìpari, Latin: Lipara or Meligūnis, Ancient, Meligounís, Lipára) is the largest of the seven Aeolian Islands, located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the northern coast of the Sicily in southern Italy, and a comune (municipality) including six of them (Lipari, Vulcano, Panarea, Stromboli, Filicudi and Alicudi); it is administratively part of Metropolitan City of Messina. It has 12,794 permanent residents, but during the May to September tourist season, the total population may reach up to 20,000. It is also the name of the biggest island in the archipelago, where the main urban area of the municipality is located.

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