Bilbao
Bilbao, with a population of about 350,000, is the largest city in Spain's Basque Country. Bilbao 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Archaeodontosaurus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 346,000 residents
- Description: municipality and city in Spain
- Postal codes: 48001-48015, 48070, 48071, and 48080
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and San Mamés Stadium.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Museum
Photo: Naotake Murayama, CC BY 2.0.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Biscay, Spain. It is one of several museums affiliated to the Solomon R.
San Mamés Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Xabier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The San Mamés Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Rafael Moreno Pitxitxi Kalea, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. Inaugurated on 16 September 2013, the stadium replaced the "old" San Mamés as the home of Athletic Bilbao.
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Museum
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is an art museum located in the city of Bilbao, Spain. The building of the museum is located entirely inside the city's Doña Casilda Iturrizar park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rekaldeberri and Basurtu.
Bilbao
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Biscay, Basque Country, Northern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
43.263° or 43° 15′ 47″ northLongitude
-2.935° or 2° 56′ 6″ westPopulation
346,000Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)IATA airport code
BIOUnited Nations Location Code
ES BIOOpen location code
8CMV7377+6XOpenStreetMap ID
node 27000762OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3128026Wikidata ID
Q8692
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Bilbao” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Bilbao”
- Amharic: “ቢልባው”
- Arabic: “بلباو”
- Aragonese: “Bilbau”
- Armenian: “Բիլբաո”
- Asturian: “Bilbao”
- Asturian: “Bilbo”
- Aymara: “Bilbao”
- Azerbaijani: “Bilbao”
- Balinese: “Bilbao”
- Bashkir: “Бильбао”
- Basque: “Bilbao”
- Basque: “Bilbo”
- Belarusian: “Більбаа”
- Belarusian: “Більбао”
- Bengali: “বিলবাও”
- Bosnian: “Bilbao”
- Breton: “Bilbo”
- Bulgarian: “Билбао”
- Capiznon: “Bilbawu”
- Catalan: “Bilbao”
- Cebuano: “Bilbao”
- Cebuano: “Bilbawu”
- Central Kurdish: “بیلباو”
- Chechen: “Билбао”
- Cheyenne: “Bilbao”
- Chinese: “比爾巴沃”
- Chinese: “毕尔巴鄂”
- Chinese: “畢爾包”
- Chinese: “畢爾巴鄂”
- Chuvash: “Бильбао”
- Cornish: “Bilbao”
- Croatian: “Bilbao”
- Czech: “Bilbao”
- Danish: “Bilbao”
- Dutch: “Bilbao”
- Eastern Mari: “Бильбао”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلباو”
- Esperanto: “Bilbao”
- Estonian: “Bilbao”
- Extremaduran: “Bilbau”
- Finnish: “Bilbao”
- French: “Bilbao”
- Galician: “Bilbao”
- Galician: “Bilbo”
- Georgian: “ბილბაო”
- German: “Abando”
- German: “Bilbao”
- German: “Bilbo”
- German: “Otxarkoaga Txurdinaga”
- German: “Rekalde”
- Greek: “Μπιλμπάο”
- Gujarati: “બિલ્બાઓ”
- Haitian: “Bilbao”
- Hausa: “Bilbao”
- Hebrew: “בילבאו”
- Hiligaynon: “Bilbawu”
- Hindi: “बिल्बाओ”
- Hungarian: “Bilbao”
- Icelandic: “Bilbao”
- Ido: “Bilbao”
- Indonesian: “Bilbao”
- Interlingua: “Bilbao”
- Interlingue: “Bilbao”
- Irish: “Bilbao”
- Irish: “Bilbo”
- Italian: “Bilbao”
- Japanese: “ビルバオ”
- Javanese: “Bilbao”
- Kannada: “ಬಿಲ್ಬಾವ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Bilbao”
- Kazakh: “Бильбао”
- Kinaray-A: “Bilbawu”
- Kirghiz: “Бильбро шаары”
- Korean: “빌바오”
- Ladin: “Bilbao”
- Ladino: “Bilbao”
- Latin: “Bilbaum”
- Latvian: “Bilbao”
- Limburgan: “Bilbao”
- Lingala: “Bilbao”
- Lithuanian: “Bilbao”
- Livvi: “Bilbo”
- Lombard: “Bilbao”
- Luxembourgish: “Bilbao”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Bilbao”
- Macedonian: “Билбао”
- Malagasy: “Bilbao”
- Malay: “Bilbao”
- Maltese: “Bilbao”
- Marathi: “बिल्बाओ”
- Mazanderani: “بیلبائو”
- Mingrelian: “ბილბაო”
- Moksha: “Бильбаа”
- Moksha: “Бильбао”
- Mongolian: “Бильбао”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بيلباو”
- Northern Frisian: “Bilbao”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bilbao”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bilbao”
- Norwegian: “Bilbao”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bilbao”
- Ossetian: “Бильбао”
- Pampanga: “Bilbáu”
- Persian: “بیلبائو”
- Piemontese: “Bilbo / Bilbao”
- Piemontese: “Bilbo/Bilbao”
- Polish: “Bilbao”
- Portuguese: “Bilbao”
- Portuguese: “Bilbau”
- Quechua: “Bilbao”
- Romanian: “Bilbao”
- Russian: “Бильбао”
- Sanskrit: “बिल्बाओ”
- Sardinian: “Bilbao”
- Scots: “Bilbao”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bilbao”
- Serbian: “Билбао”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bilbao”
- Sicilian: “Bilbao”
- Silesian: “Bilbao”
- Sinhala: “බිල්බාවෝ”
- Slovak: “Bilbao”
- Slovenian: “Bilbao”
- South Azerbaijani: “بیلبائو”
- Spanish: “Bilbao”
- Spanish: “Bilbo”
- Spanish: “El Bocho”
- Swahili: “Bilbao”
- Swedish: “Bilbao”
- Tagalog: “Bilbao”
- Tajik: “Билбао”
- Talysh: “Bilbao”
- Tamil: “பில்போ”
- Tatar: “Билбао”
- Telugu: “బిల్బావో”
- Thai: “บิลบาโอ”
- Turkish: “Bilbao”
- Twi: “Bilbao”
- Uighur: “Bilbaw”
- Ukrainian: “Більбао”
- Urdu: “بلباو”
- Uzbek: “Bilbao”
- Venetian: “Bilbao”
- Veps: “Bil’bao”
- Vietnamese: “Bilbao”
- Volapük: “Bilbao”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bilbao”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bilbawu”
- Welsh: “Bilbo”
- Wu Chinese: “毕尔巴鄂”
- Yiddish: “בילבאָ”
- Yiddish: “בילבאא”
- Yiddish: “בילבאַאָ”
- Yue Chinese: “畢爾包”
- “Bilbao”
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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 “Bilbao”. Photo: Archaeodontosaurus, CC BY-SA 3.0.