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 .
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  • Type: City with 337,000 residents
  • Description: city in Valencian Community, Spain
  • Also known as: Alacant” and “Alacant / Alicante
  • Postal codes: 03001-03016, 03070, 03071, 03080, 03114, 03540, and 03559
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio José Rico Pérez and Alicante Railway Station.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a multi-purpose stadium in Alicante, . It is currently used mostly for football matches, being home to Hércules CF. It also hosted World Cup matches when Spain organized the event in 1982.

Railway station
Photo: FDV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alicante Terminal is the central railway station of Alicante, . Commonly referred locally as the RENFE station, the station is part of Adif system, and is a terminal station.

is a fortification in the center of Alicante, , . It stands on bordering the sea, which gave it enormous strategic value since from it you can see the entire bay of Alicante and its land surroundings.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gran Via Sud and Villafranqueza.

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Alicante

Latitude
38.3436° or 38° 20′ 37″ north
Longitude
-0.4882° or 0° 29′ 17″ west
Population
337,000
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
IATA airport code
ALC
United Nations Location Code
ES ALC
Open location code
8CCX8GV6+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21323935
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2521978
Wiki­data ID
Q11959
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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: Alicante
  • Chinese: 阿利坎特
  • Chuvash: Аликанте (хула)
  • Chuvash: Аликанте
  • Croatian: Alicante
  • Czech: Alicante
  • Dagbani: Alicante
  • Danish: Alicante
  • Dutch: Alicante
  • Egyptian Arabic: اليكانتى
  • Esperanto: Alacant
  • Esperanto: Alakanto
  • Esperanto: Alicante
  • Estonian: Alicante
  • Extremaduran: Alacant
  • Extremaduran: Alicante
  • Extremaduran: Alicanti
  • Finnish: Alicante
  • French: Alacant
  • French: Alicante
  • Galician: Alacant
  • Galician: Alacante
  • Galician: Alicante
  • Georgian: ალიკანტე
  • German: Alacant
  • German: Alicante
  • Greek: Αλικάντε
  • Hakka Chinese: Â-li-kham-thi̍t
  • Hakka Chinese: Alicante
  • Hebrew: אליקנטה
  • 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
  • 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
  • Alicànt
  • Alicante

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