Central Spain
Extremadura
Badajoz

Badajoz

Badajoz is a city in on the western border of Spain, looking across into Portugal. Its sprawling surrounds are industrial and residential, with a population of 151,565 in 2011, but the old city centre has many places worth seeing, such as its Moorish citadel Alcazaba.
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  • Type: City with 125,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Extremadura, Spain
  • Also known as: “Badajoz, Spain”
  • Historically known as: “Badajos”
  • Postal codes: 06001-06012, 06070, 06071, and 06080
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alcazaba of Badajoz and Door of Palmas.

Photo: CARLOS TEIXIDOR CADENAS, CC BY 4.0.
The is an ancient Moorish citadel in Badajoz, , western . The alcazaba, as it now appears, was built by the Almohads in the 12th century, although it probably existed from the 9th century, when Badajoz was founded.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Railway station
Photo: Zarateman, CC0.
is the central railway station of Badajoz, . Commonly referred locally as the RENFE station, the station is part of Adif and high-speed rail systems: it is located at the western part of the Southwest–Portuguese high speed line.

Badajoz

Latitude
38.8782° or 38° 52′ 42″ north
Longitude
-6.9701° or 6° 58′ 12″ west
Population
125,000
Elevation
192 metres (630 feet)
IATA airport code
BJZ
United Nations Location Code
ES BJZ
Open location code
8CCMV2HH+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240423001
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2521420
Wiki­data ID
Q15679
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Badajoz” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باداخوز”
  • Arabic: “بطليوس”
  • Aragonese: “Badajoz”
  • Armenian: “Բադախոս”
  • Asturian: “Badajoz”
  • Asturian: “Badayoz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Badaxos”
  • Basque: “Badajoz”
  • Belarusian: “Бадахас”
  • Belarusian: “Бадахос”
  • Bengali: “বাদাহোজ”
  • Bosnian: “Badajoz”
  • Breton: “Badajoz”
  • Bulgarian: “Бадахос”
  • Catalan: “Badajoz”
  • Cebuano: “Badajoz”
  • Chinese: “Badajoz”
  • Chinese: “巴达霍斯”
  • Chinese: “巴達何斯”
  • Chinese: “巴達霍斯”
  • Croatian: “Badajoz”
  • Czech: “Badajoz”
  • Danish: “Badajoz”
  • Dutch: “Badajoz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باداخوز”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بطليوس”
  • Esperanto: “Badaĥozo”
  • Estonian: “Badajoz”
  • Extremaduran: “Baajós”
  • Extremaduran: “Badajó”
  • Extremaduran: “Badajós”
  • Finnish: “Badajoz”
  • French: “Badajoz”
  • Galician: “Badajoz”
  • Galician: “Badaxoz”
  • Georgian: “ბადახოსი”
  • German: “Badajoz”
  • Greek: “Μπαδαχόθ”
  • Gujarati: “બડાજોઝ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Badajoz”
  • Hebrew: “בדחוס”
  • Hindi: “बदजोज़”
  • Hungarian: “Badajoz”
  • Icelandic: “Badajoz”
  • Ido: “Badajoz”
  • Indonesian: “Badajoz”
  • Interlingua: “Badajoz”
  • Interlingue: “Badajoz”
  • Irish: “Badajoz”
  • Italian: “Badajoz”
  • Japanese: “バダホス”
  • Kannada: “ಬಡಜೊಜ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Badaxos”
  • Korean: “바다호스”
  • Ladin: “Badajoz”
  • Ladino: “Badajoz”
  • Latin: “Ara Pacis Augustalis”
  • Latin: “Badaiocium”
  • Latvian: “Badahosa”
  • Lithuanian: “Badachosas”
  • Lombard: “Badajoz”
  • Luxembourgish: “Badajoz”
  • Macedonian: “Бадахос”
  • Malagasy: “Badajoz”
  • Malay: “Badajoz”
  • Maltese: “Badajoz”
  • Marathi: “बदाजोज”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Badajoz”
  • Northern Frisian: “Badajoz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Badajoz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Badajoz”
  • Norwegian: “Badajoz”
  • Novial: “Badajoz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Badajoz”
  • Ossetian: “Бадахос”
  • Pampanga: “Badajoz”
  • Persian: “باداخوس”
  • Polish: “Badajoz”
  • Portuguese: “Badajoz”
  • Quechua: “Badajoz”
  • Romanian: “Badajoz”
  • Russian: “Бадахос”
  • Sanskrit: “बादाजोज”
  • Sanskrit: “बादाहोज़”
  • Sardinian: “Badajoz”
  • Scots: “Badajoz”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Badajoz”
  • Serbian: “Бадахоз”
  • Serbian: “Бадахос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Badajoz”
  • Sinhala: “බඩජෝස්”
  • Slovak: “Badajoz”
  • Slovenian: “Badajoz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باداخوس”
  • Spanish: “Badajoz (España)”
  • Spanish: “Badajoz”
  • Swahili: “Badajoz”
  • Swedish: “Badajoz”
  • Tamil: “படாஜோஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Бадахос”
  • Telugu: “బాడజోజ్”
  • Thai: “บาดาโฆซ”
  • Turkish: “Badajoz”
  • Ukrainian: “Бадахос”
  • Urdu: “بطليوس”
  • Uzbek: “Badaxos”
  • Venetian: “Badajoz”
  • Vietnamese: “Badajoz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Badajoz”
  • Welsh: “Badajoz”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴達霍斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴達祖斯”
  • “Badajoz”

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