Central Spain

The Meseta Central is one of the basic geographical units of the . It consists of a plateau covering a large part of the latter's interior.
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is a region of Central Spain, named for its many medieval castles.

Central Spain

  • Plateau
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,182 metres (3,878 feet)
  • Description: highland in Castilla, Spain
  • Also known as
    “Altiplà de Castella”
    “Iberian Meseta”
    “Iberian Plateau”
    “La Meseta”
    “Meseta”
    “Meseta Central”
    “Meseta Iberica”
    “Meseta of Spain”
    “Spanish Meseta”
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Latitude of center
41° north
Longitude of center
-4° or 4° west
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Central Spain” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Meseta”
  • Armenian: “Մեսետա”
  • Basque: “Iberiar goi lautada”
  • Basque: “Iberiar goi-lautada”
  • Basque: “Meseta Central”
  • Basque: “Meseta”
  • Belarusian: “Месета”
  • Belarusian: “Мэсэта”
  • Bulgarian: “Месета”
  • Catalan: “Altiplà de Castella”
  • Catalan: “Meseta Central”
  • Catalan: “Meseta”
  • Cebuano: “Meseta Central (ibabaw’mg patag sa Espanya)”
  • Cebuano: “Meseta Central”
  • Chinese: “中西班牙”
  • Chinese: “梅塞塔高原”
  • Czech: “Meseta”
  • Dutch: “Castiliaanse Hoogvlakte”
  • Dutch: “Centraal-Spanje”
  • Dutch: “Kastiliaanse Hoogvlakte”
  • Dutch: “Meseta”
  • Dutch: “Spaanse Hoogland”
  • Dutch: “Spaanse Hoogvlakte”
  • Esperanto: “Centra Altebenaĵo”
  • Esperanto: “Centra Hispana Altebenaĵo”
  • Esperanto: “Centra Plataĵo”
  • Esperanto: “Hispana Centra Altebenaĵo”
  • Esperanto: “Hispana Centra Ebenaĵo”
  • Esperanto: “Meseta Central”
  • French: “Altiplano castillan”
  • French: “Altiplano de Castille”
  • French: “Altiplano de la Meseta”
  • French: “Meseta castillane”
  • French: “Meseta centrale”
  • French: “Meseta”
  • French: “Plateau central espagnol”
  • Galician: “Meseta Central”
  • Georgian: “მესეტა”
  • German: “Iberische Meseta”
  • German: “Zentralspanien”
  • Greek: “Κεντρική Ισπανία”
  • Hebrew: “מסטה”
  • Hebrew: “מרכז ספרד”
  • Hindi: “मेसेटा का पठार”
  • Hungarian: “Meseta Central”
  • Hungarian: “Meseta”
  • Hungarian: “Mezeta”
  • Italian: “Altopiano della Meseta”
  • Italian: “Meseta”
  • Italian: “Spagna centrale”
  • Japanese: “メセータ”
  • Japanese: “メセタ・セントラル”
  • Japanese: “メセタ”
  • Kirghiz: “Месета”
  • Korean: “메세타”
  • Korean: “메세타고원”
  • Latin: “Media planities Hispanica”
  • Latin: “Planitia centralis Hispanica”
  • Lithuanian: “Centrinė Meseta”
  • Lithuanian: “Kastilijos plokščiakalnis”
  • Lithuanian: “Meseta”
  • Macedonian: “Месета”
  • Macedonian: “Централна Висорамнина”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Meseta Central”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mesetaen”
  • Norwegian: “Meseta Central”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Meseta”
  • Polish: “Meseta Iberyjska”
  • Polish: “Meseta”
  • Portuguese: “Meseta Central”
  • Portuguese: “Meseta Ibérica”
  • Russian: “Иберийская Месета”
  • Russian: “Кастильское плоскогорье”
  • Russian: “Месета”
  • Serbian: “Мезета”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Meseta”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mezeta”
  • Slovenian: “Meseta Central”
  • Slovenian: “Osrednja Mezeta”
  • Spanish: “Centro de España”
  • Spanish: “Meseta castellana”
  • Spanish: “Meseta Central Iberica”
  • Spanish: “Meseta Central Ibérica”
  • Spanish: “Meseta Central”
  • Spanish: “meseta ibérica”
  • Swedish: “Iberiska mesetan”
  • Swedish: “Meseta Central (platå i Spanien)”
  • Swedish: “Meseta Central”
  • Turkish: “Meseta Central”
  • Ukrainian: “Месета”
  • Venetian: “Mezeta”
  • Vietnamese: “Trung Tây Ban Nha”
  • Western Frisian: “Spaanske Heechflakte”

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