Asturias

Asturias is a region on the north coast of Spain, hemmed in by mountains. It's considered part of along with its neighbouring regions of to the east and to the west, because of the cool fertile maritime climate and distinct culture.
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is a cathedral city, capital of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain. It's mostly modern but has a small old town, with monuments cited on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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is a port and metropolis in Asturias on the north coast of Spain. With a population of 270,000 in 2024, it's mostly modern but has an attractive old centre and many cultural attractions.

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is a post-industrial city in Asturias in northwest Spain. With a population of 76,000 in 2024, it's best known for the Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre.

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is a town on the coast of Asturias in northwest Spain, historically a port and a stopover on the pilgrimage trail to Santiago. The town population in 2023 was 6600, with another 9000 in its outlying villages.

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is a beach resort in Asturias on the north coast of Spain. It's known as Ribeseya in Asturian, and in 2024 had a population of 5500.

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is a town in Asturias in northern Spain, known in Asturian as Grau. With a population of 9700 in 2027, it's a commuter town for Oviedo 27 km east.

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is a town in Asturias in the north of Spain, with a population of 1400 in 2024. It has an old castle and church, and is a stopover on El Camino pilgrimage trail to Santiago.

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is a village in Asturias in the north of Spain, with a population of 7000 in 2024. It lies on a historic trade route through the mountains from León to Oviedo and the coast, and in the 20th century it had coal mines.

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is a village in the hills of Asturias in northern Spain. It was briefly busy from 1946 to 1953 as a service base for constructing the Salime dam.

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is a town in Asturias in the northwest of Spain, usually simply called "La Pola". With a population of 12,700 in 2023, it's a commuter town for .

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is a fishing village and beach resort in Asturias on the north coast of Spain, with a population of 5400 in 2023.

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is a village in Asturias on the north coast of Spain. Its population is in decline, dipping below 700 in 2024, and its heyday was in the 16th / 17th century hunting whales for their oil.

is a town in Asturias near the north coast of Spain. With a population of 9200 in 2024, it was historically a mining district but is now mostly a commuter town for nearby cities.

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is a town in Asturias in northern Spain, 20 km southeast of Oviedo, with a population of 38,000 in 2024. It's post-industrial, part of the Asturias rust belt, and that heritage is the main reason to visit.

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is a village in the mountains of Asturias, 90 km southwest of the provincial capital Oviedo. "Cangas" means canyons and it's the largest village of a scattered collection of upland hamlets and summer cottages, with a combined population of 11,000 in 2025.

Asturias

Latitude of center
43.3134° or 43° 18′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
-5.9419° or 5° 56′ 31″ west
Population
1,080,000
Elevation
284 metres (932 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3513471344
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3114710
Wiki­data ID
Q3934
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Asturias” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Asturië”
  • Albanian: “Asturia”
  • Albanian: “Asturias”
  • Amharic: “አስቱርያስ”
  • Arabic: “أشتورية”
  • Arabic: “أَشْتُورِيَةُ”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة أستورياس”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة أشتورية”
  • Arabic: “منطقة أستورياس”
  • Arabic: “منطقة أشتورية”
  • Aragonese: “Prencipato d’Asturias”
  • Aragonese: “Prencipau d’Asturias”
  • Armenian: “Աստուրիա”
  • Arpitan: “Asturies”
  • Asturian: “Asturies”
  • Asturian: “Principáu d’Asturies”
  • Azerbaijani: “Asturiya”
  • Basque: “Asturias”
  • Basque: “Asturiasko Printzerria”
  • Belarusian: “Астурыя”
  • Bengali: “আস্তুরিয়াস”
  • Bosnian: “Asturija”
  • Breton: “Asturiez”
  • Breton: “Priñselezh Asturiez”
  • Bulgarian: “Астурия”
  • Catalan: “Astúries”
  • Catalan: “Principat d’Astúries”
  • Cebuano: “Principality of Asturias”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاستۆریاس”
  • Chinese: “Asturias Thâu-lâng-kok”
  • Chinese: “阿斯图里亚斯”
  • Chinese: “阿斯圖里亞斯”
  • Cornish: “Asturya”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Asturiya”
  • Croatian: “Asturija”
  • Czech: “Asturias”
  • Czech: “Asturie”
  • Czech: “Asturies”
  • Czech: “Asturské knížectví”
  • Czech: “Astursko”
  • Czech: “Principado de Asturias”
  • Czech: “Principáu d’Asturies”
  • Dagbani: “Asturias”
  • Danish: “Asturien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Asturyas”
  • Dutch: “Asturië”
  • Dutch: “Prinsdom Asturië”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “استورياس”
  • Esperanto: “Asturio”
  • Estonian: “Astuuria”
  • Extremaduran: “Asturias”
  • Extremaduran: “Asturies”
  • Extremaduran: “Prencipau d’Asturias”
  • Finnish: “Asturia”
  • French: “Asturies”
  • French: “Principauté des Asturies”
  • Galician: “Asturias”
  • Galician: “Asturies”
  • Galician: “Principado de Asturias”
  • Galician: “Principáu d’Asturies”
  • Georgian: “ასტურია”
  • German: “Asturias”
  • German: “Asturien”
  • German: “Fürstentum Asturien”
  • Greek: “Αστούριες”
  • Guarani: “Asturias”
  • Gujarati: “અસ્ટુરિયાસ”
  • Haitian: “Asturies”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Â-sṳ̂-thù-lî-â-sṳ̂-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Asturias”
  • Hausa: “Asturias”
  • Hebrew: “אסטוריאס”
  • Hindi: “आस्तुरियास”
  • Hungarian: “Asztúria”
  • Icelandic: “Astúría”
  • Ido: “Asturia”
  • Indonesian: “Asturia”
  • Indonesian: “Asturias”
  • Indonesian: “Kepangeranan Asturia”
  • Interlingua: “Principato de Asturias”
  • Interlingue: “Asturia”
  • Interlingue: “Asturias”
  • Irish: “Asturias”
  • Irish: “Asturies”
  • Italian: “Asturie”
  • Italian: “Principato delle Asturie”
  • Japanese: “アストゥリアス”
  • Japanese: “アストゥリアス州”
  • Javanese: “Asturias”
  • Kabardian: “Астуриэ”
  • Kannada: “ಆಸ್ಟೂರಿಯಸ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Астурия”
  • Kazakh: “Астурия”
  • Kinaray-A: “Asturyanhën”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kaastoryahan”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kaasturyahan”
  • Kirghiz: “Астуриа”
  • Korean: “아스투리아스 지방”
  • Korean: “아스투리아스주”
  • Ladin: “Asturies”
  • Ladino: “Asturias”
  • Latin: “Asturiae”
  • Latin: “Principatus Asturiarum”
  • Latvian: “Astūrija”
  • Ligurian: “Asturias”
  • Limburgan: “Asturië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Asturias”
  • Literary Chinese: “阿斯圖里亞斯”
  • Lithuanian: “Astūrija”
  • Lombard: “Asturie”
  • Luxembourgish: “Asturien”
  • Macedonian: “Астурија”
  • Macedonian: “Кнежевство Астурија”
  • Malay: “Asturias”
  • Maori: “Asturias”
  • Marathi: “आस्तुरियास”
  • Mazanderani: “آستوریاس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Asturias Thâu-lâng-kok”
  • Mingrelian: “ასტურია”
  • Mirandese: “Stúrias”
  • Mongolian: “Астур муж”
  • Mongolian: “Астур”
  • Mongolian: “Астури”
  • Mongolian: “ᠠᠰᠲ᠋ᠦ᠋ᠷ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Astuurien”
  • Northern Sami: “Asturia eanangoddi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Asturias”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asturias”
  • Norwegian: “Asturias”
  • Novial: “Asturias”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Astúrias”
  • Oromo: “Asturias”
  • Ossetian: “Астури”
  • Pampanga: “Asturias”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਸਤੁਰੀਆਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Asturias”
  • Persian: “آستوریاس”
  • Piemontese: “Asturie”
  • Polish: “Asturia”
  • Portuguese: “Astúrias”
  • Portuguese: “Principado das Astúrias”
  • Portuguese: “Principado de Astúrias”
  • Portuguese: “Principáu d’Asturies”
  • Pushto: “استوریاس”
  • Romanian: “Asturia”
  • Russian: “Астурийское княжество”
  • Russian: “Астурия”
  • Sardinian: “Astùrias”
  • Scots: “Asturias”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Prionnsachd Asturias”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Prionnsachd Asturies”
  • Serbian: “Астурија”
  • Serbian: “Кнежевина Астурија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Asturija”
  • Sicilian: “Asturi”
  • Sinhala: “අස්ටුරියස්”
  • Slovak: “Astúria”
  • Slovenian: “Asturias”
  • Slovenian: “Asturija”
  • Slovenian: “Kneževina Asturija”
  • Slovenian: “Principáu d’Asturies”
  • Somali: “Asturias”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آستوریاس”
  • Spanish: “Asturias”
  • Spanish: “Asturies”
  • Spanish: “Comunidad Autónoma del Principado de Asturias”
  • Spanish: “Principado de Asturias”
  • Spanish: “Principáu d’Asturies”
  • Swahili: “Asturias”
  • Swedish: “Asturias”
  • Swedish: “Asturien”
  • Sylheti: “ꠅꠍꠐꠥꠞꠤꠀ”
  • Tagalog: “Asturias”
  • Tajik: “Астурия”
  • Tamil: “ஆதூரியா”
  • Tamil: “ஆஸ்டூரியஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Астурия”
  • Telugu: “అస్టూరియాస్”
  • Thai: “แคว้นอัสตูเรียส”
  • Turkish: “Asturias”
  • Turkish: “Asturies”
  • Ukrainian: “Астурія”
  • Ukrainian: “Князівство Астурія”
  • Urdu: “آستوریاس”
  • Urdu: “استوریاس”
  • Uzbek: “Asturiya”
  • Venetian: “Asturie”
  • Venetian: “Astùrie”
  • Vietnamese: “Asturias”
  • Vietnamese: “Asturies”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Principado de Asturias”
  • Welsh: “Asturias”
  • Western Frisian: “Astuerje”
  • Western Mari: “Астурвлӓ”
  • Western Panjabi: “استوریا”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿斯图里亚斯”
  • Yiddish: “אסטוריאס”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿斯圖里亞斯”
  • “Asturias”
  • “Asturie”
  • “ma Asitulija”
  • “ma Atulija”

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