Loiu
Loiu is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. The Bilbao Airport terminal lies within the municipality limits.- Type: Locality with 2,500 residents
- Description: municipality of Spain
- Also known as: “48903”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bilbao Airport and Sondika station.
Bilbao Airport
Aerodrome
Bilbao Airport is a minor international airport located 9 km north of Bilbao, in the municipality of Loiu, in Biscay. It is the largest airport in the Basque Country and northern Spain, with 6,336,441 passengers in 2023.
Sondika station
Railway station
Sondika is a railway station in Sondika, Basque Country, Spain. It is owned by Euskal Trenbide Sarea and operated by Euskotren. It lies on the Txorierri line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bilbao and Derio.
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.Derio
Village
Derio is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. It is part of Greater Bilbao and was part of the municipality of Bilbao until 1983 and hosts Bilbao's biggest municipal cemetery.
Sondika
Village
Sondika is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain. Situated directly south of the runway of Bilbao Airport, it is the location of Bilbao British Cemetery, containing a Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery with 58 casualties.
Loiu
- Category: municipality of Spain
- Location: Biscay, Basque Country, Northern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
43.3105° or 43° 18′ 38″ north
Longitude
-2.9127° or 2° 54′ 46″ west
Population
2,500
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
Open location code
8CMV836P+6W
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Loiu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لوايو”
- Aragonese: “Loiu”
- Aragonese: “Lujua”
- Asturian: “Loiu”
- Basque: “Loiu”
- Breton: “Loiu”
- Bulgarian: “Лоиу”
- Catalan: “Loiu”
- Catalan: “Lujua”
- Cebuano: “Loiu”
- Chechen: “Лухуа”
- Chinese: “卢华”
- Chinese: “盧華”
- Czech: “Loiu”
- Dutch: “Loiu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لوايو”
- French: “Loiu”
- French: “Lujua”
- Galician: “Loiu”
- Georgian: “ლუხუა”
- German: “Loiu”
- Hungarian: “Loiu”
- Interlingua: “Loiu”
- Irish: “Loiu”
- Italian: “Loiu”
- Japanese: “ロイウ”
- Ladin: “Loiu”
- Latin: “Lujua”
- Latin: “Luxua”
- Lithuanian: “Luchua”
- Lombard: “Loiu”
- Luxembourgish: “Lujua”
- Malay: “Loiu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lujua”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Loiu”
- Persian: “لویو”
- Polish: “Loiu”
- Portuguese: “Loiu”
- Portuguese: “Lujua”
- Russian: “Лухуа”
- Scots: “Loiu”
- South Azerbaijani: “لویو”
- Spanish: “Loiu”
- Spanish: “Lujua”
- Swedish: “Loiu”
- Tatar: “Лухуа”
- Turkish: “Loiu”
- Ukrainian: “Лою”
- Ukrainian: “Лухуа”
- Urdu: “لوئیو”
- Uzbek: “Lujua”
- Uzbek: “Luxua”
- Uzbek: “Лужуа”
- Uzbek: “Лухуа”
- Venetian: “Loiu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Loiu”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bilboko aireportua / Aeropuerto de Bilbao and Sondika.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sondikako geltokia / Estación de Sondika and Elotxelerri.
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