Biscay
The Province of Biscay is a province of the Basque Autonomous Community, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the eponymous bay.
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- Province of Spain with about 1,160,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 200 metres (660 feet)
- Description: province of Basque Country, Spain
- Also known as“Biscay Province”“Bizkaia”“Province of Biscay”“Provincia de Bizkaia”“Vizcaya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and San Mamés Stadium.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Biscay, Spain.
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is an art museum located in the city of Bilbao, Spain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bilbao and Barakaldo.
Bilbao
Bilbao, with a population of about 350,000, is the largest city in Spain's Basque Country.
Biscay
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Latitude
43.25° or 43° 15′ north
Longitude
-2.9167° or 2° 55′ west
Open location code
8CMV732M+28
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Biscay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Biskaje”
- Albanian: “Provinca Biscay”
- Arabic: “بسقاية”
- Arabic: “بسكاية”
- Arabic: “بيسكاي”
- Aragonese: “Bizcaya”
- Aragonese: “Vizcaya”
- Armenian: “Բիսկայա”
- Asturian: “Bizkaia”
- Asturian: “Vizcaya”
- Azerbaijani: “Biskaya vilayəti”
- Basque: “Bizkaia”
- Belarusian: “Біская”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Біская”
- Bengali: “বিসকে”
- Breton: “Bizkaia”
- Bulgarian: “Биская”
- Catalan: “Biscaia”
- Catalan: “Bizkaia”
- Catalan: “Província de Biscaia”
- Cebuano: “Bizkaia”
- Chinese: “比斯开省”
- Chinese: “比斯開省”
- Croatian: “Biskaja”
- Czech: “Bizkaia”
- Danish: “Vizcaya”
- Dimli (individual language): “Biskay”
- Dutch: “Biskaje”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Biskajo”
- Estonian: “Biskaia provints”
- Estonian: “Biskaia”
- Extremaduran: “Viscaya”
- Finnish: “Biskaja”
- Finnish: “Vizcaya”
- French: “Biscaye”
- French: “Bizkaia”
- French: “Vizcaya”
- Galician: “Biscaia”
- Galician: “Bizkaia”
- Galician: “provincia de Biscaia”
- Georgian: “ბისკაია”
- German: “Biscaya”
- German: “Bizkaia”
- German: “ES-BI”
- German: “Provinz Biskaya”
- German: “Vizcaya”
- Greek: “Βισκαΐα”
- Greek: “Μπισκάγια, Μπισκάια”
- Greek: “Μπισκάγια”
- Gujarati: “બિસ્કે”
- Hebrew: “ביסקאיה”
- Hindi: “बिस्के”
- Hungarian: “Bizkaia”
- Indonesian: “Biskay”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Biskay”
- Indonesian: “Vizcaya”
- Interlingua: “Biscaya”
- Irish: “An Bhioscáin”
- Italian: “Biscaglia”
- Japanese: “ビスカヤ”
- Japanese: “ビスカヤ県”
- Kannada: “ಬಿಸ್ಕೆ”
- Kazakh: “Бискайя”
- Kirghiz: “Бискай”
- Korean: “비스카야 주”
- Korean: “비스카이아도”
- Ladin: “Biscaia”
- Ladino: “Provinsia de Vizkaya”
- Ladino: “Vizkaya”
- Latin: “Biscaia”
- Latvian: “Biskaja”
- Latvian: “Biskajas province”
- Lithuanian: “Biskajos provincija”
- Livvi: “Bizkaia”
- Luxembourgish: “Vizcaya”
- Malay: “Biscay”
- Malay: “Wilayah Biscay”
- Marathi: “बिस्के”
- Mazanderani: “بیسکای اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vizcaya”
- Mingrelian: “ბისკაიაშ პროვინცია”
- Northern Frisian: “Bizkaia (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Bizkaia”
- Northern Luri: “بیسکای”
- Northern Sami: “Vizcaya eanangoddi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bizkaia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vizcaya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bizkaia”
- Norwegian: “Bizkaia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Biscaia”
- Ossetian: “Бискайя”
- Pampanga: “Biscay”
- Persian: “استان بیسکای”
- Polish: “Biskaja”
- Polish: “Bizkaia”
- Polish: “Vizcaya”
- Portuguese: “Biscaia”
- Romanian: “Provincia Vizcaya”
- Russian: “Бискайя”
- Scots: “Biscay”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bizkaia”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Vizcaya”
- Serbian: “Покрајина Бискаја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Biskaja”
- Sicilian: “Biscagghia”
- Sinhala: “බිස්කේ”
- Slovenian: “Biskaja”
- Slovenian: “Bizkaia”
- Slovenian: “provinca Vizcaya”
- Slovenian: “Vizcaya”
- South Azerbaijani: “بیسکای اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Bizkaia”
- Spanish: “Vizcaya”
- Spanish: “Señorío de Vizcaya” (historical)
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Vizcaya”
- Swedish: “Biscaya”
- Tagalog: “Vizcaya”
- Tajik: “Бискай”
- Tamil: “பிஸ்கேய்”
- Telugu: “బిస్కే”
- Thai: “จังหวัดบิซกายา”
- Turkish: “Biskay”
- Ukrainian: “Біскайя”
- Ukrainian: “Біская”
- Ukrainian: “Віская”
- Urdu: “بیسکای”
- Uzbek: “Vizcaya”
- Venetian: “Bizkaia”
- Vietnamese: “Biscay”
- Vietnamese: “Bizkaia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vizcaya”
- Welsh: “Biskaia”
- Welsh: “Bizkaia”
- Western Armenian: “Պիսքայ”
- Wu Chinese: “比斯开省”
- Yue Chinese: “比斯開省”
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