Spain
Eastern Spain
Murcia

Cartagena

Cartagena is the main seaport of the region. It has 214,000 inhabitants, the second-largest city in the region. Cartagena concentrates an artistic legacy that summarizes almost three millennia of Spanish history, being inhabited by most great Mediterranean empires that have conquered the Iberian Peninsula.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Hospital General Universitario Santa Lucía and Cartagena railway station.

Hospital
Photo: P4K1T0, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Railway station
Photo: Øyvind Holmstad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway terminal station located in the Spanish municipality of , in the region of Murcia. It has medium- and long-distance services operated by Renfe. is situated 3½ km west of Cartagena.

Castle
Photo: Rafesmar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 3½ km west of Cartagena.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Unión and La Unión.

Town
Photo: Nanosanchez, Public domain.
is situated in the in the southeast of . It has an area of 24.6 km², and had a population of 19,907 on 1 January 2018. It has an elevation of 86 m. is situated 5 km northeast of Cartagena.

Neighborhood
Photo: Nanosanchez, Public domain.
is a neighborhood, which is situated 5 km east of Cartagena.

Cartagena

Latitude
37.604° or 37° 36′ 14″ north
Longitude
-0.934° or 0° 56′ 2″ west
Population
214,000
Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)
Open location code
8C9XJ338+HC
Geo­Names ID
6359521
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cartagena” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cartagena”
  • Albanian: “Kartagjena”
  • Amharic: “ካርታሔና”
  • Arabic: “قرطاجنة”
  • Aragonese: “Cartachena”
  • Armenian: “Նոր Կարթագեն”
  • Asturian: “Cartaxena”
  • Basque: “Cartagena”
  • Belarusian: “Картахена”
  • Bengali: “কার্টাগেনা”
  • Breton: “Cartagena”
  • Bulgarian: “Картахена”
  • Catalan: “Cartagena”
  • Cebuano: “Cartagena”
  • Chinese: “卡塔赫纳”
  • Chuvash: “Картахена”
  • Czech: “Cartagena”
  • Danish: “Cartagena”
  • Dutch: “Cartagena”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كارتاخينا”
  • Esperanto: “Kartaĥeno”
  • Estonian: “Cartagena”
  • Finnish: “Cartagena”
  • French: “Carthagène”
  • Galician: “Cartaxena”
  • Georgian: “კარტახენა”
  • German: “Cartagena”
  • Greek: “Καρθαγένη”
  • Gujarati: “કાર્ટેજેના”
  • Hebrew: “קרטחנה”
  • Hindi: “कार्टाजेना”
  • Hungarian: “Cartagena”
  • Icelandic: “Cartagena”
  • Ido: “Cartagena”
  • Indonesian: “Cartagena”
  • Interlingua: “Cartagena”
  • Irish: “Cartagena”
  • Italian: “Cartagena”
  • Japanese: “カルタヘナ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಟೆಜಿನಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Картахена”
  • Korean: “카르타헤나”
  • Ladin: “Cartagena”
  • Ladino: “Cartagena”
  • Latin: “Carthago Nova”
  • Latvian: “Kartahena”
  • Lithuanian: “Kartachena”
  • Macedonian: “Картагина”
  • Malay: “Cartagena”
  • Marathi: “कार्ताजिना”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cartagena”
  • Mongolian: “Картахена”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cartagena”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cartagena i Spania”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cartagena”
  • Ossetian: “Картахенæ”
  • Persian: “کارتاگنا”
  • Polish: “Kartagena”
  • Portuguese: “Cartagena”
  • Quechua: “Cartagena”
  • Romanian: “Cartagena”
  • Russian: “Картахена”
  • Sanskrit: “कार्टाजेना”
  • Sardinian: “Cartagena”
  • Scots: “Cartagena”
  • Serbian: “Картахена”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cartagena”
  • Silesian: “Cartagena”
  • Sinhala: “කාර්ටගේනා”
  • Slovak: “Cartagena”
  • Slovenian: “Cartagena”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کارتاخنا”
  • Spanish: “Cartagena”
  • Swedish: “Cartagena”
  • Tamil: “கார்டஜெனா”
  • Tatar: “Картахена”
  • Telugu: “కార్టజేనా”
  • Thai: “การ์ตาเกนา”
  • Turkish: “Cartagena”
  • Ukrainian: “Картахена”
  • Urdu: “کارتاجینا”
  • Uzbek: “Cartagena”
  • Venetian: “Cartagena”
  • Vietnamese: “Cartagena”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cartagena”
  • Welsh: “Cartagena”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارتیگانا”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡塔赫纳”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡塔赫納”

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Localities in the Area

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cartagena”. Photo: Tordo12, CC BY-SA 4.0.