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Asturias, officially the Principality of Asturias, is a region in the north of . It sits in the narrow strip between the Cantabrian Sea and the Cantabrian Mountains, forming part of "Green Spain".
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Gijón and Villaviciosa.

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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 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 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 and concejo in the Principality of Asturias. It lies on the road from to , and on a small subtributary of the river Narcea.

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is a village in Asturias, . It has 370 inhabitants and lies on the Original Way of St. James.

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is a village in Asturias, . It lies on the Way of El Salvador of the Camino de Santiago.

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The fishing village of is a coastal town, with a beach, in Asturias province in northern . It has an interesting historic centre, and beautiful beaches washed by the Bay of Biscay.

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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 village of 1200 people in the Asturias region of . It is known as the beautiful village of Asturias. Visitors who dare to get lost in the 'Calle Real' and the innumerable stairs of the village can captivating squares with fountains and chapels.

is the capital town of the municipality of , in the province of Asturias, Spain. It is 5 km west of Avilés, 32 km west of Gijón, 40 km northwest of Oviedo and 6 km east of .

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is a lovely village and parish in Cangas del Narcea, in the southwest of Asturias, surrounded by green forests and giant rocky mountains. is the capital of the Fuentes del Narcea natural park, and another natural park, the Reserva de Muniellos, is a 10-min drive away.

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or Corniana is a village in Asturias in northern Spain, with a population of around 550 in 2023. It's a stopover on Camino Primitivo, the original route of the pilgrimage trail to Santiago.

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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Астури”
  • Pampanga: “Asturias”
  • Persian: “آستوریاس”
  • Piemontese: “Asturie”
  • Polish: “Asturia”
  • Portuguese: “Astúrias”
  • Portuguese: “Principado das Astúrias”
  • Portuguese: “Principado de Astúrias”
  • Portuguese: “Principáu d’Asturies”
  • 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”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Asturias”. Photo: MickStephenson, CC BY-SA 3.0.