Bari (
Bari dialect:
Bare; ; ,
Bárion) is the capital city of the
Metropolitan City of Bari and of the
Apulia region, on the
Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland
Southern Italy after
Naples, and is well known as a
port and
university city, as well as the city of
Saint Nicholas. The city itself has a population of about 326,799, as of 2015, over , while the urban area counts 653,028 inhabitants over . The
metropolitan area counts 1 million inhabitants.