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Basque Country

The Basque Country is a region in . The name can also refer to all the land of the Basques from a historical, cultural, linguistic and identity standpoint.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Bilbao and San Sebastián.

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, with a population of about 350,000, is the largest city in 's Basque Country. is perhaps the best place in the world to experience the ancient culture and language of the Basque people, which has stubbornly held its own over thousands of years and is now completely unlike any modern-day culture in Europe.

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Donostia-San Sebastián is a major city in the Basque Country, an Autonomous Community of Spain. Donostia/San Sebastian boasts one of the best in-city beaches in Europe.

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is in the heart of the Basque Country in . The old town has some of the best preserved medieval streets and plazas in the region and it is one of very few cities with two cathedrals.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Guernica and Irun.

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is a Basque town known for its Monday market day which has for decades been considered as a holiday in the town. Airborne bombing by the German Condor Legion in support of Spanish fascists in 1937 destroyed much of 's old town, but several parts were spared and many were rebuilt.

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is a town in Basque Country, at the border of France. It has about 61,000 inhabitants and lies on the Northern Way of the Camino de Santiago.

is a fishing town in the province of Guipuzcoa, Basque Country of on the Bay of Txingudi, by the border with . It is the last remaining walled town in Guipuzcoa.

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Zarautz is a coastal town located in central Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, in Spain. It is bordered by to the east and the south and Getaria to the west, located about 15 kilometres west of .

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is a town of 7,700 people in Vizcaya, Basque Country. A small and charming Basque town near the border with Burgos. Nestled in the mountains, it is an excellent base for exploring the wilderness.

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is a small fishing town in Guipuzcoa, on the coast between to the east and Zumaia to the west. The town is dominated by a rocky promontory, nicknamed El Raton, or mouse.

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is a town in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country of northern . It is famous for its specific wave.

Basque Country

Latitude of center
42.9912° or 42° 59′ 28″ north
Longitude of center
-2.5543° or 2° 33′ 16″ west
Population
2,220,000
Elevation
876 metres (2,874 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
3336903
Wiki­data ID
Q3995
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Yue Chinese—“Basque Country” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Баск къэралыгъо”
  • Afrikaans: “Outonome Gemeenskap van die Baskeland”
  • Albanian: “Baskia”
  • Amharic: “ባስክ ሀገር”
  • Arabic: “منطقة إقليم الباسك”
  • Aragonese: “País Basco”
  • Aragonese: “País Vasco”
  • Armenian: “Բասկերի երկիր”
  • Arpitan: “Comunôtât ôtonoma bâsca”
  • Arpitan: “Payis bâsco”
  • Asturian: “Comunidá Autónoma Vasca”
  • Asturian: “Euskadi”
  • Asturian: “Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa”
  • Asturian: “País Bascu”
  • Asturian: “País Vascu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Basklar ölkəsi”
  • Basque: “EAE”
  • Basque: “Euskadi”
  • Basque: “Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa”
  • Basque: “Euskal Herria”
  • Basque: “Euzkadi”
  • Belarusian: “Краіна Баскаў”
  • Bosnian: “Baskija (autonomna zajednica)”
  • Bosnian: “Baskija”
  • Breton: “Kumuniezh Emren Euskadi”
  • Bulgarian: “Баска автономна област”
  • Catalan: “Comunitat autònoma basca”
  • Catalan: “Comunitat Autònoma del País Basc”
  • Catalan: “Euskadi”
  • Catalan: “País Basc”
  • Cebuano: “Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa / Comunidad Autónoma Vasca”
  • Cebuano: “Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa/Comunidad Autónoma Vasca”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەرێمی باسک”
  • Chinese: “Euskadi”
  • Chinese: “巴斯克自治区”
  • Chinese: “巴斯克自治區”
  • Chuvash: “Баск Ен”
  • Cornish: “Kemmynieth Omrewlys Bask”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Basklar Memleket”
  • Croatian: “Baskija”
  • Czech: “Autonomní společenství Baskicko”
  • Czech: “Baskicko”
  • Danish: “Baskerlandet”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mıntıqay Baskiya Otonome”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mıntıqaya Baskiya Otonome”
  • Dutch: “Baskenland”
  • Dutch: “Spaans Baskenland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اقليم الباسك”
  • Esperanto: “Eŭska Aŭtonoma Komunumo”
  • Estonian: “Baski autonoomne piirkond”
  • Extremaduran: “Euskadi”
  • Extremaduran: “País Vascu”
  • Finnish: “Baskimaa”
  • French: “communauté autonome basque”
  • French: “communauté autonome du Pays basque”
  • French: “Pays basque (communauté autonome)”
  • French: “Pays basque (Espagne)”
  • French: “Pays basque”
  • French: “Pays Basque”
  • Galician: “País Vasco”
  • Georgian: “ბასკეთი”
  • German: “Autonome Gemeinschaft Baskenland”
  • German: “Baskenland”
  • Greek: “Χώρα των Βάσκων”
  • Haitian: “Peyi bask”
  • Haitian: “Peyi basque”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Āina Basque”
  • Hebrew: “חבל הבסקים”
  • Hindi: “बास्क प्रदेश”
  • Hungarian: “Baszkföld”
  • Icelandic: “Baskaland”
  • Ido: “Baskia”
  • Igbo: “Basque Autonomous Community”
  • Indonesian: “Komunitas Otonom Basque”
  • Indonesian: “Negara Bask”
  • Indonesian: “Negara Basque”
  • Interlingua: “Pais Basc”
  • Interlingue: “Pais Basc (Autonom Comunité)”
  • Interlingue: “Pais Basc”
  • Inupiaq: “Paaskuut Nunaat”
  • Irish: “Tír na mBascach Theas”
  • Italian: “Paese basco”
  • Italian: “Paesi Baschi”
  • Japanese: “エウスカディ”
  • Japanese: “エウスカル・アウトノミア・エルキデゴア”
  • Japanese: “パイス・バスコ”
  • Japanese: “パイスバスコ”
  • Japanese: “バスク州”
  • Javanese: “País Vasco”
  • Kabardian: “Баскхэм я Къэрал”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Баскланы джурту”
  • Kazakh: “Басктар елі”
  • Kazakh: “Басктер елі”
  • Kinaray-A: “Banwa Basko”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kabaskuhan”
  • Kirghiz: “Басктар Өлкөсү”
  • Korean: “바스크 지방”
  • Korean: “바스크주”
  • Kurdish: “Herêma Otonom a Baskî”
  • Kurdish: “Herêma Xweser a Baskî”
  • Ladin: “Paesc Basch”
  • Ladino: “Pais Basko”
  • Ladino: “Paiz Vasko”
  • Latin: “Vasconia”
  • Latvian: “Basku Zeme”
  • Limburgan: “Baskeland”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Euscadi”
  • Literary Chinese: “巴斯克自治區”
  • Lithuanian: “Baskija”
  • Lombard: “Comunità autonoma di Paes Basch”
  • Luxembourgish: “Autonom Gemeinschaft Baskeland”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Euskadi”
  • Macedonian: “Баскија”
  • Malay: “Negara Basque”
  • Maltese: “Pajjiż Bask (komunità awtonoma)”
  • Maltese: “Pajjiż Bask”
  • Manx: “Yn Çheer Vascagh”
  • Marathi: “पाईज बास्को”
  • Mazanderani: “باسک”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Euskadi”
  • Mingrelian: “ბასკეთი”
  • Moksha: “Баскимастор”
  • Mongolian: “Баск орон”
  • Mongolian: “Баск”
  • Mongolian: “Баскийн Өөртөө Засах Нийгэмлэг”
  • Mongolian: “ᠪᠠᠰᠻ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لمنطقة لمستاقلة د لباسك”
  • Northern Frisian: “Autonoom Gemianskap Baskenlun”
  • Northern Luri: “ڤولات باسک”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baskerland (autonom region)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baskerland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baskarland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Regionen Baskarland”
  • Norwegian: “Baskerland”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Comunautat Autonòma Basca”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wascic Land”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wascisc Land”
  • Ossetian: “Баскæгты Бæстæ”
  • Pampanga: “Basque Country”
  • Persian: “سرزمین باسک”
  • Piemontese: “Pais Basch”
  • Polish: “Kraj Basków”
  • Portuguese: “Comunidade Autónoma do País Basco”
  • Portuguese: “Euskadi”
  • Portuguese: “Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa”
  • Portuguese: “País Basco (comunidade autónoma)”
  • Portuguese: “País Basco”
  • Portuguese: “País Vasco”
  • Pushto: “باسک خپلواکه ټولنه”
  • Pushto: “باسک خپلواکه سيمه”
  • Pushto: “باسک سيمه”
  • Pushto: “باسک هېواد”
  • Quechua: “Yuskadi”
  • Romanian: “Comunitatea Autonomă a Țării Basce”
  • Romanian: “Țara Bascilor”
  • Russian: “Баскония”
  • Russian: “Страна Басков”
  • Russian: “Эускади”
  • Sardinian: “Paisu Bascu”
  • Scots: “Basque Kintra”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dùthaich nam Basgach”
  • Serbian: “Баскија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baskija”
  • Sicilian: “Paisi Baschi”
  • Slovak: “Baskicko”
  • Slovenian: “Avtonomna dežela Baskija”
  • Slovenian: “Baskija”
  • Slovenian: “Baskovska avtonomna skupnost”
  • Slovenian: “Baskovska dežela”
  • Spanish: “CAV”
  • Spanish: “Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco”
  • Spanish: “Comunidad Autonoma Vasca”
  • Spanish: “Comunidad Autónoma Vasca”
  • Spanish: “Euskadi”
  • Spanish: “Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa / Comunidad Autónoma Vasca”
  • Spanish: “Pais Vasco”
  • Spanish: “País Vasco”
  • Spanish: “Provincias Vascongadas”
  • Spanish: “Vascongadas”
  • Swedish: “Baskien”
  • Swedish: “Regionen Baskien”
  • Swiss German: “Autonome Gemeinschaft Baskenland”
  • Tagalog: “Bayang Basko”
  • Tagalog: “País Vasco”
  • Talysh: “Baskon kišvər”
  • Tamil: “பாசுக்கு நாடு”
  • Tatar: “Басклар Иле”
  • Thai: “แคว้นบาสก์”
  • Thai: “แคว้นประเทศบาสก์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Autonome Gemeinschaft Baskenland”
  • Turkish: “Bask Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Країна Басків”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Baskiska”
  • Urdu: “باسک ملک”
  • Uzbek: “Basklar mamlakati”
  • Venetian: “Comunità autonoma dei Paexi Baschi”
  • Venetian: “Paezi Baschi”
  • Vietnamese: “Xứ Basque”
  • Vlaams: “Basknland (regio)”
  • Vlaams: “Basknland”
  • Walloon: “Euscadeye”
  • Walloon: “Ewscadi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “País Vasco”
  • Welsh: “Cymuned Ymreolaethol Gwlad y Basg”
  • Western Frisian: “Baskelân”
  • Western Frisian: “Baskenlân”
  • Western Panjabi: “باسک دیس”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴斯克自治区”
  • Yakut: “Баскилар дойдулара”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴斯克自治區”
  • “ma Esuka”
  • “Pajèsere Basche”
  • “Vasconia”

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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 “Basque Country”. Photo: Euskalduna, CC BY-SA 3.0.