Riviera

There is more than one place called Riviera, originally two regions of France and Italy neighbouring each other:

• French Riviera — A region in France.
• Italian Riviera — A region in Italy.

Elsewhere on the planet, a "Riviera" often denotes an area with popular beaches and a sunny climate:

• Adriatic Riviera — a region in Northeast Italy, extending along the Adriatic shores of Veneto and Emilia-Romagna
• Albanian Riviera — the southern part of the Coastal Albania
• American Riviera — as Santa Barbara, California is known among some
• Australian Riviera — the Gold Coast of Queensland
• Austrian Riviera — the Adriatic coast of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, now corresponding to the Slovenian coast and the Istria Peninsula of Croatia
• Balkan Riviera — combining the Budva Riviera of Montenegro and the Makarska Riviera of Croatia
• Baltic Riviera — the Latvian resort of Jūrmala
• Belgian Riviera — the area around the city of Ostend
• Brazilian Riviera — the beaches of Armação dos Búzios in the state of Rio de Janeiro
• Budva Riviera — the main tourist drag of Montenegro
• Bulgarian Riviera — another name for the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
• Cajun Riviera — a nickname for the community of Holly Beach in the Lake Charles metropolitan area of Louisiana
• Caucasian Riviera (formerly the Soviet Riviera) — a stretch of the Black Sea coastline running south from Novorossiysk in Russian Krasnodar Krai (a region itself known as the Russian Riviera), through Abkhazia and Samegrelo to Batumi in Southwestern Georgia
• Chinese Riviera — refers to two separate areas in South China; the coastal districts of the city of Zhuhai, and the area around the resort of Sanya on the Hainan island
• Crimean Riviera — the southern coast of Crimea, disputed between Ukraine and Russia (effectively under the control of the latter)
• Danish Riviera — the North Coast of Zealand
• English Riviera — around the town of Torquay
• Furness Riviera — coastline around the town of Barrow-in-Furness in the English region of Cumbria
• Gambarogno Riviera — a region in Ticino, Switzerland
• German Riviera — the Baltic Sea Coast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• Greek Riviera — the Aegean coast of Peloponnese (this mainland part being also known as the Athens Riviera) and the Saronic Gulf Islands just off it
• Haggerston Riviera — not a 'Riviera' in the typical sense, this is a tongue in cheek referral to a gentrified area along the Regent's Canal in the Hackney district of London
• Lakeland Riviera — the town of Grange-over-Sands in Lancashire, England
• Makarska Riviera — in the Split-Dalmatia county of the central Dalmatian coast of Croatia
• Mayan Riviera — the Caribbean coasts of the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, also called Riviera Maya in Spanish
• Mexican Riviera — on the Pacific Coast of the country, including Riviera Nayarita in the state of Nayarit
• Neapolitan Riviera — the town of Sant'Agnello in the Province of Naples, Italy
• Norrbotten Riviera — the Baltic coast in the Swedish municipality of Piteå
• Norwegian Riviera — Agder on the southern coast of the country
• Portuguese Riviera — the Atlantic coast of the western Lisbon Region
• Red Sea Riviera — the Red Sea coasts of Sinai and Eastern Egypt
• Redneck Riviera — informal name for the Emerald Coast of Florida
• Riviera Beach — a city in South Florida
• Riviera of the South Island — around the town of Motueka on the South Island of New Zealand
• Roman Riviera — the seaside community of Ostia near Rome
• Romanian Riviera — the Black Sea coast of Northern Dobruja
• Scandinavian Riviera — around the city of Landskrona on the Swedish side of the Oresund Strait
• Slovenian Riviera — the Adriatic coast of the country
• Spanish Riviera — a collective name for the Mediterranean coasts of Costa Brava, Costa Blanca and Costa del Sol in the eastern and southern parts of the country
• Sussex Riviera — in the town of Worthing in the English region of West Sussex
• Swiss Riviera — on the shores of the Lake Geneva
• Turkish Riviera — the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts between Izmir and Antalya, more specifically refers to the Lycian coast
• Venetian Riviera — the outlying islands of the Venetian Lagoon around the city of Venice itself, also known as Riviera del Brenta

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