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Cantabria

Cantabria is a region on the northern coast of . Cantabria unites the best of the interior landscape with the proximity of the coast. The region has a varied landscape where mountains, valleys and coast combine to offer a wide range of possibilities for travellers with a multitude of green tourist routes, adventure tourism and wonderful beaches.
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is the capital and largest city of the province of Cantabria in . It's on the north coast, with many beaches, ferries from Britain, and a small historic centre.

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is a picturesque town of 4200 people in Cantabria, , renowned for its medieval architecture. The village is a bit of a tourist trap, and is so swamped with new developments around the outskirts, that on arrival you might be forgiven for wondering what all the fuss is about.

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or 'Castro' for short is a town of 32,000 people in the province of Cantabria. It is a popular tourist destination that offers a sports harbour, a fishing harbour and two beaches.

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The is a rural region in Cantabria, to the south of and north of neighbouring . It is a rugged region full of verdant valleys, picturesque villages and impressive mountains.

Cantabria

Latitude of center
43.1596° or 43° 9′ 34″ north
Longitude of center
-4.0878° or 4° 5′ 16″ west
Population
585,000
Elevation
704 metres (2,310 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
3109716
Wiki­data ID
Q3946
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Cantabria” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Cantabria”
  • Albanian: “Kantabria”
  • Amharic: “ካንታብርያ”
  • Arabic: “قنتبرية”
  • Arabic: “قنطبرية”
  • Arabic: “كنتبريا”
  • Arabic: “كنتبرية”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كانتابريا”
  • Aragonese: “Cantabria”
  • Armenian: “Կանտաբրիա”
  • Arpitan: “Cantabria”
  • Arpitan: “Cantabrie”
  • Asturian: “Cantabria”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kantabriya”
  • Basque: “Kantabria”
  • Belarusian: “Кантабрыя”
  • Bengali: “কান্তাব্রিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Kantabrija”
  • Breton: “Kantabria”
  • Bulgarian: “Кантабрия”
  • Catalan: “Cantàbria”
  • Catalan: “La Muntanya”
  • Catalan: “Província de Cantabria”
  • Cebuano: “Cantabria”
  • Chinese: “Cantabria”
  • Chinese: “坎塔布里亚”
  • Chinese: “坎塔布里亞”
  • Cornish: “Kantabri”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kantabriya”
  • Croatian: “Kantabrija”
  • Czech: “Kantábrie”
  • Danish: “Kantabrien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cantabria”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kantabriya”
  • Dutch: “Cantabrië”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانتابريا”
  • Esperanto: “Kantabrio”
  • Estonian: “Kantaabria”
  • Extremaduran: “Cantabria”
  • Extremaduran: “Cantábria”
  • Extremaduran: “La montaña”
  • Finnish: “Cantabria”
  • Finnish: “Kantabria”
  • French: “Cantabrie”
  • French: “Province de Cantabrie”
  • Galician: “Cantabria”
  • Georgian: “კანტაბრია”
  • German: “Kantabrien”
  • German: “Provinz Cantabria”
  • Greek: “Κανταβρία”
  • Greek: “Καντάμπρια”
  • Gujarati: “કાન્તાબ્રિયા”
  • Haitian: “Cantabrie”
  • Haitian: “Kantabri”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cantabria”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kham-thap-pu-lî-â”
  • Hebrew: “קנטבריה”
  • Hindi: “कंटैब्रिया”
  • Hungarian: “Kantábria”
  • Icelandic: “Kantabría”
  • Ido: “Kantabria”
  • Indonesian: “Kantabria”
  • Interlingua: “Cantabria”
  • Interlingue: “Cantabria”
  • Irish: “Cantabria”
  • Italian: “Cantabria”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Santander”
  • Japanese: “カンタブリア”
  • Japanese: “カンタブリア州”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಂಥಬ್ರಿಯಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Кантабрия”
  • Korean: “칸타브리아 지방”
  • Korean: “칸타브리아주”
  • Ladin: “Cantabria”
  • Ladino: “Kantabria”
  • Latin: “Cantabria”
  • Latvian: “Kantabrija”
  • Limburgan: “Cantabrië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Cantabria”
  • Lithuanian: “Kantabrija”
  • Lombard: “Cantabria”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kantabrien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Cantabria”
  • Macedonian: “Кантабрија”
  • Malay: “Cantabria”
  • Maori: “Cantabria”
  • Marathi: “कांताब्रिया”
  • Mazanderani: “کانتابریا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cantabria”
  • Mingrelian: “კანტაბრია”
  • Mongolian: “Кантабри”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kantaabrien”
  • Northern Luri: “کانتابئریا”
  • Northern Sami: “Kantabria eanangoddi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cantabria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cantabria”
  • Norwegian: “Cantabria”
  • Novial: “Cantabria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cantàbria”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cantabria”
  • Ossetian: “Кантабри”
  • Pampanga: “Cantabria”
  • Persian: “استان کانتابریا”
  • Persian: “کانتابریا”
  • Piemontese: “Cantabria”
  • Polish: “Kantabria”
  • Portuguese: “A Montanha”
  • Portuguese: “Cantábria”
  • Quechua: “Kantawriya”
  • Romanian: “Cantabria”
  • Russian: “Кантабрия”
  • Sardinian: “Cantàbria”
  • Scots: “Cantabrie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cantàbria”
  • Serbian: “Кантабрија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kantabrija”
  • Sicilian: “Cantabria”
  • Sinhala: “කැන්ටබ්රියා”
  • Slovak: “Kantábria”
  • Slovenian: “Kantabrija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانتابریا اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Cantabria”
  • Spanish: “La Montaña”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Cantabria”
  • Spanish: “Santander”
  • Swahili: “Cantabria”
  • Swedish: “Kantabrien”
  • Tagalog: “Cantabria”
  • Tamil: “கண்டப்பிரிஆ”
  • Tamil: “காந்தாபிரியா”
  • Tatar: “Кантабрия”
  • Telugu: “కాంటాబ్రియా”
  • Thai: “แคว้นกันตาเบรีย”
  • Turkish: “Cantabria”
  • Turkish: “Kantabria”
  • Ukrainian: “Кантабрія”
  • Urdu: “کانتابریا”
  • Uzbek: “Cantabria”
  • Venetian: “Cantabria”
  • Venetian: “Cantàbria”
  • Vietnamese: “Cantabria”
  • Vlax Romani: “Kantabriya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cantabria”
  • Welsh: “Cantabria”
  • Western Frisian: “Kantaabrje”
  • Western Panjabi: “کینٹیبریا”
  • Wu Chinese: “坎塔布里亚”
  • Yue Chinese: “坎塔布里亞”
  • “Cantabria”
  • “ma Kantapija”

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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 “Cantabria”. Photo: Adbar, CC BY-SA 3.0.