Bilbao

Bilbao, with a population of about 350,000, is the largest city in 's . 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.
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  • City with 351,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 20 metres (66 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code BIO
  • Description: municipality and city in Spain
  • Postal codes
    48001-48015
    48070
    48071
    48080

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and San Mamés Stadium.

Museum
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The is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Biscay, Spain.

Stadium
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The is an all-seater football…

Museum
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The is an art museum located in the city of Bilbao, Spain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rekaldeberri and Basurtu.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Bilbao

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Latitude
43.263° or 43° 15′ 47″ north
Longitude
-2.935° or 2° 56′ 6″ west
UN/LOCODE
ES BIO
Open location code
8CMV7377+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27000762
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3128026
Wiki­data ID
Q8692

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bilbao” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bilbao”
  • 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: “बिलबाओ”
  • Hindi: “बिल्पाऒ”
  • 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: “ಬಿಲ್ಪಾಒ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಲ್ಬಾವ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bilbao”
  • Kazakh: “Бильбао”
  • Kinaray-A: “Bilbao”
  • Kirghiz: “Билбао”
  • 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”

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