Alicante

Alicante is a popular tourist city of 332,000 people in the Valencian Community of . It is the capital of and a historic Mediterranean port. The city has become a hub of tourism directed to the beaches of the .
  • City with 352,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 18 metres (59 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code ALC
  • Description: city in Valencian Community, Spain
  • Postal codes
    03001-03016
    03070
    03071
    03080
    03114
    03540
    03559
  • Also known as
    “Alacant”
    “Alacant / Alicante”
  • Neighbors

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio José Rico Pérez and Alicante Railway Station.
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is a multi-purpose stadium in Alicante, .
Alicante Terminal is the central railway station of Alicante, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gran Via Sud and Villafranqueza.

Alicante

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Latitude
38.3436° or 38° 20′ 37″ north
Longitude
-0.4882° or 0° 29′ 17″ west
UN/LOCODE
ES ALC
Open location code
8CCX8GV6+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Yue Chinese—“Alicante” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Akra Leuke”
  • Arabic: “ألَلَقَنْت”
  • Arabic: “أليقنت”
  • Arabic: “أليكانته”
  • Arabic: “أليكانتى”
  • Arabic: “أليكانتي”
  • Arabic: “أليكنت”
  • Arabic: “اللقنت”
  • Arabic: “اليقنت”
  • Arabic: “اليكانتى”
  • Arabic: “اليكانتي”
  • Arabic: “لقنت”
  • Aragonese: “Alicant”
  • Armenian: “Ալիկանտե”
  • Asturian: “Alacant”
  • Asturian: “Alicante”
  • Balinese: “Alicante”
  • Basque: “Alacant”
  • Belarusian: “Алікантэ”
  • Bosnian: “Alicante”
  • Breton: “Alacant”
  • Bulgarian: “Аликанте”
  • Catalan: “Alacant”
  • Cebuano: “Alicante (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Alicante”
  • Chamorro: “Alicante”
  • Chinese: “阿利坎特”
  • Chuvash: “Аликанте (хула)”
  • Chuvash: “Аликанте”
  • Croatian: “Alicante”
  • Czech: “Alicante”
  • Dagbani: “Alicante”
  • Danish: “Alicante”
  • Dutch: “Alicante”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اليكانتى”
  • Emilian: “Alicànt”
  • Esperanto: “Alacant”
  • Esperanto: “Alakanto”
  • Esperanto: “Alicante”
  • Estonian: “Alicante”
  • Extremaduran: “Alacant”
  • Extremaduran: “Alicante”
  • Extremaduran: “Alicanti”
  • Finnish: “Alicante”
  • French: “Alacant”
  • French: “Alicante”
  • Friulian: “Alicante”
  • Galician: “Alacant”
  • Galician: “Alacante”
  • Galician: “Alicante”
  • Georgian: “ალიკანტე”
  • German: “Alicante”
  • Greek: “Αλικάντε”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Â-li-kham-thi̍t”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Alicante”
  • Hebrew: “אליקנטה”
  • Hindi: “अलिकंटे”
  • Hungarian: “Alicante”
  • Icelandic: “Alicante”
  • Icelandic: “Alícante”
  • Icelandic: “Alíkante”
  • Indonesian: “Alicante”
  • Interlingue: “Alicante”
  • Irish: “Alacant”
  • Italian: “Alacant”
  • Italian: “Alacante”
  • Italian: “Alicante”
  • Japanese: “アリカンテ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲಿಕಂಟೇ”
  • Kazakh: “Аликанте”
  • Korean: “알리칸테”
  • Ladin: “Alicante”
  • Ladino: “Alikante”
  • Latin: “Lucentum”
  • Latvian: “Alakanta”
  • Latvian: “Alikante”
  • Ligurian: “Alicante”
  • Lithuanian: “Alikantė”
  • Lombard: “Alacant”
  • Lombard: “Alicante”
  • Luxembourgish: “Alicante”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Alacant”
  • Macedonian: “Аликанте”
  • Malagasy: “Alicante”
  • Malay: “Alicante”
  • Maltese: “Alicante”
  • Marathi: “आलिकांते”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alicante”
  • Moksha: “Аликантэ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Alicante”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alicante”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alicante”
  • Norwegian: “Alicante”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Alacant”
  • Ossetian: “Аликанте”
  • Persian: “آلیکانته”
  • Polish: “Alicante”
  • Portuguese: “Alacante”
  • Portuguese: “Alicante”
  • Romanian: “Alicante”
  • Russian: “Аликанте”
  • Sanskrit: “आलिकान्ते”
  • Scots: “Alicante”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Alacant”
  • Serbian: “Аликанте”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alicante”
  • Sicilian: “Alacanti”
  • Sicilian: “Alicanti”
  • Silesian: “Alicante”
  • Sinhala: “අලිකන්තේ”
  • Slovak: “Alicante”
  • Slovenian: “Alicante”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلیکانته”
  • Spanish: “Alacant”
  • Spanish: “Alicante”
  • Spanish: “Alacante” (historical)
  • Swahili: “Alicante”
  • Swedish: “Alicante”
  • Tajik: “Аликанте”
  • Tatar: “Аликанте”
  • Thai: “อาลากันต์”
  • Thai: “อาลิกันเต”
  • Thai: “อาลีกันเต”
  • Turkish: “Alicante”
  • Ukrainian: “Аліканте”
  • Urdu: “الیکانتے”
  • Urdu: “لقنت”
  • Uzbek: “Alicante”
  • Uzbek: “Alikante”
  • Venetian: “Alicante”
  • Vietnamese: “Alicante”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alicante”
  • Welsh: “Alacante”
  • Welsh: “Alicante”
  • Western Panjabi: “الیکانت”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿利坎特”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿利坎特”

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