Europe

Iberia

The Iberian Peninsula is the westernmost section of the continent, lying between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It is separated from by the snow capped mountains.
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is famous for its friendly inhabitants, relaxed lifestyle, its cuisine, vibrant nightlife, and world-famous folklore and festivities, and historically the core of the vast Spanish Empire.

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is a modern country with strong links to its past and people of a friendly and hospitable nature. It has become an acclaimed international tourist and vacation destination due to its many beautiful beaches and long warm summers, a rich gastronomy, historical and cultural heritage.

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is a small, mountainous country in Western , up in the between and . Full of beautiful mountains and charming old villages, the country thrives on tourism, mainly visitors from nearby countries who come for shopping, skiing, hiking, and banking.

Iberia

Latitude of center
40.35° or 40° 21′ north
Longitude of center
-3.98° or 3° 58′ 48″ west
Elevation
441 metres (1,447 feet)
Geo­Names ID
6947191
Wiki­data ID
Q12837
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Iberia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Iberiese Skiereiland”
  • Albanian: “Gadishulli Iberik”
  • Albanian: “Gadishulli Pirinej”
  • Amharic: “የኢቤሪያ ልሳነ ምድር”
  • Arabic: “إيبريا”
  • Arabic: “إيبيريا”
  • Arabic: “إيبيريون”
  • Arabic: “الجزيرة الأيبرية”
  • Arabic: “ايبريا”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة الأندلس”
  • Arabic: “شبه الجزيرة الأيبرية”
  • Arabic: “شبه الجزيرة الأيبيرية”
  • Arabic: “شبه الجزيرة الإيبيرية”
  • Arabic: “شبه الجزيرة الايبيرية”
  • Arabic: “شبه الجزيرة الايبيريه”
  • Arabic: “شبه جزيرة أيبريا”
  • Arabic: “شبه جزيرة أيبيريا”
  • Arabic: “شبه جزيرة إيبيريا”
  • Arabic: “شبه جزيرة ايبيريا”
  • Aragonese: “Peninsula Iberica”
  • Armenian: “Պիրենեյան թերակղզի”
  • Arpitan: “Pèninsula ibèrica”
  • Arpitan: “Pèninsula Ibèrica”
  • Asturian: “Península Ibérica”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pireney yarımadası”
  • Bashkir: “Пиреней ярымутрауы”
  • Basque: “Iberiar penintsula”
  • Belarusian: “Пірэнейскі паўвостраў”
  • Belarusian: “Пірэнэйскі паўвостраў”
  • Bengali: “আইবেরিয়া”
  • Bengali: “আইবেরিয়ান উপদ্বীপ”
  • Bengali: “আইবেরীয় উপদ্বীপ”
  • Bengali: “ইবেরিয়া”
  • Bengali: “ইবেরিয়ান উপদ্বীপ”
  • Bengali: “ইবেরীয় উপদ্বীপ”
  • Bosnian: “Iberijsko poluostrvo”
  • Bosnian: “Pirenejsko poluostrvo”
  • Bosnian: “Pirinejsko poluostrvo”
  • Breton: “Ledenez iberek”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиренейски полуостров”
  • Burmese: “အိုင်ဘီးရီးယားကျွန်းဆွယ်”
  • Catalan: “península Ibèrica”
  • Catalan: “Península Ibèrica”
  • Cebuano: “Penynsula sa Iberia”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیمچەدوورگەی ئیبیریا”
  • Chechen: “Пиренейн ахгӀайре”
  • Chinese: “Iberia Poàn-tó”
  • Chinese: “伊比利亚”
  • Chinese: “伊比利亚半岛”
  • Chinese: “伊比利半島”
  • Chuvash: “Пиреней çурутравĕ”
  • Corsican: “Peninsula Iberica”
  • Corsican: “penisula iberica”
  • Croatian: “Pirenejski poluotok”
  • Czech: “Iberský poloostrov”
  • Czech: “Pyrenejský poloostrov”
  • Danish: “Den Iberiske Halvø”
  • Danish: “Pyrenæiske Halvø”
  • Dutch: “Iberië”
  • Dutch: “Iberisch Schiereiland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شبه الجزيره الايبيريه”
  • Esperanto: “Ibera duoninsulo”
  • Esperanto: “Iberio”
  • Estonian: “Pürenee poolsaar”
  • Extremaduran: “Península Ibérica”
  • Faroese: “Iberianes”
  • Finnish: “Iberia”
  • Finnish: “Iberian niemimaa”
  • Finnish: “Pyreneiden niemimaa”
  • Finnish: “Pyreneitten niemimaa”
  • French: “péninsule Ibérique”
  • French: “Péninsule ibérique”
  • French: “Péninsule Ibérique”
  • Galician: “Península Ibérica”
  • Georgian: “პირენეს ნახევარკუნძული”
  • German: “Iberische Halbinsel”
  • German: “Pyrenäenhalbinsel”
  • German: “Pyrenäische Halbinsel”
  • German: “Südwesteuropa”
  • Greek: “Ιβηρία”
  • Greek: “Ιβηρική Χερσόνησος”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Iberia Pan-tó”
  • Hebrew: “חצי האי האיברי”
  • Hindi: “इबेरिया प्रायद्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Ibériai-félsziget”
  • Iban: “Semenanjung Iberia”
  • Icelandic: “Íberíuskagi”
  • Icelandic: “Íberíuskaginn”
  • Ido: “Iberia”
  • Ido: “Peninsulo Iberia”
  • Indonesian: “Iberia”
  • Interlingua: “Peninsula Iberic”
  • Interlingue: “Peninsul Iberic”
  • Irish: “An Ibéir”
  • Irish: “Leithinis na hIbéire”
  • Italian: “Iberia”
  • Italian: “penisola iberica”
  • Italian: “Penisola iberica”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Aibiirian Peninsiula”
  • Japanese: “イベリア半島”
  • Kannada: “ಐಬೀರಿಯನ್ ಪರ್ಯಾಯದ್ವೀಪ”
  • Kazakh: “Пиреней түбегі”
  • Kirghiz: “Пиреней жарым аралы”
  • Korean: “이베리아반도”
  • Kurdish: “Nîvgirava Îberî”
  • Ladino: “Peninsola Iberika”
  • Lao: “ຄາບສະໝຸດອີເບລີ”
  • Lao: “ແຫຼມອີເບລີ”
  • Latin: “Hiberia”
  • Latin: “Iberia”
  • Latvian: “Pireneju pussala”
  • Lezghian: “Пиреней зуростров”
  • Ligurian: “Penîzoa Ibérica”
  • Limburgan: “Iberië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Iberia”
  • Literary Chinese: “伊比利半島”
  • Lithuanian: “Pirėnų pusiasalis”
  • Low German: “Iberie”
  • Low German: “Iberies Schiereilaand”
  • Low German: “Iberies skiereilaand”
  • Low German: “Iberiese skiereailaand”
  • Low German: “Iberiese Skiereilaand”
  • Low German: “Iberisch schieraailaand”
  • Low German: “Iberisch Schiereilaand”
  • Low German: “Iberisch skiereiland”
  • Low German: “Iberische skiereailaand”
  • Low German: “Iberisk skyreiland”
  • Low German: “Iberiske skiereiland”
  • Low German: “Iberiske skyreiland”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Pyrenejska połkupa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ibeeresch Hallefinsel”
  • Macedonian: “Пиринејски Полуостров”
  • Malagasy: “Saikanosy Iberika”
  • Malagasy: “Tanjona Iberika”
  • Malay: “Semenanjung Iberia”
  • Malayalam: “ഐബീരിയൻ ഉപദ്വീപ്‌”
  • Manx: “Lieh-innys ny h-Ibeir”
  • Manx: “Lieh-innys yn Ibeir”
  • Marathi: “इबेरियन द्वीपकल्प”
  • Mazanderani: “ایبری”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iberia Poàn-tó”
  • Mingrelian: “პირენეშ ჩქონი”
  • Mirandese: “Península Eibérica”
  • Mongolian: “Иберийн хойг”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إيبيريا”
  • Nepali: “इबेरियन प्रायद्वीप”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ibeerisk Hualeweilun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den iberiske halvøy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pyrenéhalvøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pyrenéhalvøyen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den iberiske halvøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pyrenéhalvøya”
  • Norwegian: “Den iberiske halvøy”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Peninsula Iberica”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Iberia”
  • Ossetian: “Пиренейты æрдæгсакъадах”
  • Ossetian: “Пиренейы æрдæгсакъадах”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਬੇਰੀਆਈ ਟਾਪੂਨੁਮਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਬੇਰੀਆਈ ਪਰਾਇਦੀਪ”
  • Papiamento: “Península Ibériko”
  • Persian: “ایبریا”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیره ایبری”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیرهٔ ایبریا”
  • Piemontese: “Penìsola Ibérica”
  • Polish: “Półwysep Iberyjski”
  • Pontic: “Ιβηρικόν Χερσόνησος”
  • Portuguese: “Ibéria”
  • Portuguese: “Península Ibérica”
  • Pushto: “د ایبریا شبه الجزیره”
  • Romanian: “Peninsula iberică”
  • Romanian: “Peninsula Iberică”
  • Russia Buriat: “Пиренейн хахад арал”
  • Russian: “Иберийский полуостров”
  • Russian: “Иберия”
  • Russian: “Пиренейский полуостров”
  • Saraiki: “جزیرہ نما آئبیریا”
  • Sardinian: “Penìsula Ibèrica”
  • Scots: “Iberie Peninsula”
  • Scots: “Peninsula o Ibeirie”
  • Serbian: “Иберија”
  • Serbian: “Иберијско полуострво”
  • Serbian: “Пиринејско полуострво”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pirinejski poluotok”
  • Sicilian: “Pinìsula ibbèrica”
  • Sindhi: “جزیرو نما آئیبیریا”
  • Sinhala: “අයිබීරියානු අර්ධද්වීපය”
  • Slovak: “Pyrenejský polostrov”
  • Slovenian: “Iberski polotok”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آیبریا”
  • Spanish: “Iberia”
  • Spanish: “La Peninsula Iberica”
  • Spanish: “La Península Ibérica”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula Iberica”
  • Spanish: “península ibérica”
  • Spanish: “Península ibérica”
  • Swahili: “Rasi ya Iberia”
  • Swedish: “Iberiska halvön”
  • Swedish: “Pyreneiska halvön”
  • Swiss German: “Iberischi Halbinsle”
  • Tagalog: “Tangway ng Iberia”
  • Tagalog: “Tangway ng Iberya”
  • Tamil: “ஐபீரிய மூவலந்தீவு”
  • Tatar: “Пиреней ярымутравы”
  • Thai: “คาบสมุทรไอบีเรีย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Iberische Halbinsel”
  • Turkish: “İber Yarımadası”
  • Turkmen: “Pireneý ýarymadasy”
  • Ukrainian: “Іберія”
  • Ukrainian: “Піренейський пів острів”
  • Ukrainian: “Піренейський півострів”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Iberiska połkupa”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Pyrenejska połkupa”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ نما آئبیریا”
  • Uzbek: “Pireney yarim oroli”
  • Veps: “Iberijan pol’sar‘”
  • Veps: “Pirenejan pol’sar‘”
  • Veps: “Pirenejan pol’sar’”
  • Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Iberia”
  • Vietnamese: “Iberia”
  • Vlaams: “Iberisch Schiereiland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rawis han Iberia”
  • Welsh: “Penrhyn Iberia”
  • Western Armenian: “Իբերական Թերակղզի”
  • Western Armenian: “Իպերական Թերակղզի”
  • Western Frisian: “Ibearysk Skiereilân”
  • Western Mari: “Пиреней пел ошмаоты”
  • Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ نما آئیبیریا”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊比利亚半岛”
  • Yiddish: “איבערישער האלבאינזל”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊比利半島”

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