Bilbao
Bilbao, with a population of about 350,000, is the largest city in Spain's Basque Country. Bilbao is perhaps the best place in the world to experience the ancient culture and language of the Basque people, which has stubbornly held its own over thousands of years and is now completely unlike any modern-day culture in Europe.Places of Interest
Highlights include Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and San Mamés Stadium.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Museum
Photo: Naotake Murayama, CC BY 2.0.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Biscay, Spain. It is one of several museums affiliated to the Solomon R.
San Mamés Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Валерий Дед, CC BY 3.0.
The San Mamés Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Rafael Moreno Pitxitxi Kalea, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. Inaugurated on 16 September 2013, the stadium replaced the "old" San Mamés as the home of Athletic Bilbao.
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Museum
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is an art museum located in the city of Bilbao, Spain. The building of the museum is located entirely inside the city's Doña Casilda Iturrizar park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rekaldeberri and Basurtu.
Bilbao
- Type: Locality with 352,000 residents
- Also known as: “48020” and “毕尔巴鄂”
- Location: Biscay, Basque Country, Northern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.2604° or 43° 15′ 37″ northLongitude
-2.9334° or 2° 56′ 0″ westPopulation
352,000Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)Open location code
8CMV7368+4JGeoNames ID
6362368
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bilbao” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلباو”
- Aragonese: “Bilbau”
- Armenian: “Բիլբաո”
- Basque: “Bilbo”
- Belarusian: “Горад Більбаа”
- Breton: “Bilbo”
- Bulgarian: “Билбао”
- Chechen: “Билбао”
- Eastern Mari: “Бильбао”
- Extremaduran: “Bilbau”
- French: “Bilbao”
- Galician: “Bilbo”
- Georgian: “ბილბაო”
- German: “Bilbao”
- Greek: “Μπιλμπάο”
- Hebrew: “בילבאו”
- Japanese: “ビルバオ”
- Korean: “빌바오”
- Latin: “Bilbaum”
- Marathi: “बिल्बाओ”
- Mingrelian: “ბილბაო”
- Ossetian: “Бильбао”
- Persian: “بیلبائو”
- Piemontese: “Bilbo / Bilbao”
- Portuguese: “Bilbau”
- Russian: “Бильбао”
- Serbian: “Билбао”
- Thai: “บิลบาโอ”
- Uighur: “Bilbaw”
- Ukrainian: “Більбао”
- Welsh: “Bilbo”
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Notable Places Nearby
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