Ceuta
Ceuta is one of two Spanish exclaves in North Africa. The territory had several rulers before the Portuguese in 1415 took control of this city east of Tangier. Since 1580 it has been under Spanish administration, but has the status of an autonomous city.
- Type: City with 68,800 residents
- Description: Spanish autonomous city in northwestern Africa
- Also known as: “ciutat autònoma de Ceuta”, “Septem Fratres”, “Seūta”, “Κέουτα”, “سەبتە”, “কেতোয়া”, “ஸுடா”, “සබ්තාහ්”, “มณฑลตงซา”, “사브타”, and “塞卜泰”
- Postal codes: 51001-51005, 51070, 51071, and 51080
Places of Interest
Highlights: Monte Hacho and Royal Walls of Ceuta.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Foso Real, Ceuta.
Ceuta
Latitude
35.8884° or 35° 53′ 18″ north
Longitude
-5.3041° or 5° 18′ 15″ west
Population
68,800
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
IATA airport code
JCU
UN/LOCODE
ES CEU
Open location code
8C7PVMQW+88
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ceuta” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ceuta”
- Albanian: “Ceuta”
- Albanian: “Seuta”
- Amharic: “ሴውታ”
- Arabic: “سبتة”
- Aragonese: “Ceuta”
- Armenian: “Սեուտա”
- Arpitan: “Ceuta”
- Assamese: “চেউটা”
- Asturian: “Ceuta”
- Azerbaijani: “Seuta”
- Basque: “Ceuta”
- Bavarian: “Ceuta”
- Belarusian: “Сеута”
- Belarusian: “Сэўта”
- Bengali: “সেউতা”
- Betawi: “Sabtah”
- Bosnian: “Ceuta”
- Breton: “Ceuta”
- Bulgarian: “Сеута”
- Catalan: “Ceuta”
- Cebuano: “Ceuta”
- Central Kurdish: “سێوتا”
- Chinese: “休达”
- Chinese: “休達”
- Cornish: “Ceuta”
- Croatian: “Ceuta”
- Czech: “Ceuta”
- Danish: “Ceuta”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ceuta”
- Dutch: “Ceuta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ثيويتا”
- Esperanto: “Ceŭto”
- Estonian: “Ceuta”
- Extremaduran: “Ceuta”
- Fiji Hindi: “Ceuta”
- Finnish: “Ceuta”
- French: “Ceuta”
- Gagauz: “Ceuta”
- Galician: “Ceuta”
- Georgian: “სეუტა”
- German: “Ceuta”
- Greek: “Θέουτα”
- Guianese Creole French: “Ceuta”
- Gujarati: “સ્યુટા”
- Haitian: “Ceuta”
- Hausa: “Ceuta”
- Hebrew: “סאוטה”
- Hindi: “सेउटा”
- Hindi: “सेउता”
- Hungarian: “Ceuta”
- Icelandic: “Ceuta”
- Ido: “Ceuta”
- Inari Sami: “Ceuta”
- Indonesian: “Ceuta”
- Interlingua: “Ceuta”
- Interlingue: “Ceuta”
- Irish: “Ceuta”
- Italian: “Ceuta”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Siuta”
- Japanese: “セウタ”
- Javanese: “Ceuta”
- Kabyle: “Sebta”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಯುಟಾ”
- Kazakh: “Сеута”
- Kirghiz: “Сеута”
- Korean: “세우타”
- Kurdish: “Ceuta”
- Ladin: “Ceuta”
- Ladino: “Seuta”
- Latin: “Septa”
- Latvian: “Seuta”
- Ligurian: “Ceuta”
- Limburgan: “Ceuta”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Ceuta”
- Lithuanian: “Seuta”
- Lombard: “Ceuta”
- Lower Sorbian: “Ceuta”
- Luxembourgish: “Ceuta”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Ceuta”
- Macedonian: “Сеута”
- Malagasy: “Ceuta”
- Malay: “Ceuta”
- Maltese: “Ceuta”
- Marathi: “सेउता”
- Mazanderani: “سئوتا”
- Mazanderani: “سبته”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ceuta”
- Minangkabau: “Ceuta”
- Mingrelian: “სეუტა”
- Mirandese: “Ceuta”
- Moksha: “Сэута”
- Mongolian: “Сеута”
- Moroccan Arabic: “سبتة”
- Neapolitan: “Ceuta”
- Nepali: “सेउटा”
- Northern Frisian: “Ceuta”
- Northern Luri: “سئوتا”
- Northern Sami: “Ceuta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ceuta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ceuta”
- Norwegian: “Ceuta”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ceuta”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sabta”
- Ossetian: “Сеутæ”
- Pampanga: “Ceuta”
- Papiamento: “Ceuta”
- Pedi: “Ceuta”
- Persian: “سئوتا”
- Persian: “سبته”
- Picard: “Ceuta”
- Piemontese: “Ceuta”
- Polish: “Ceuta”
- Portuguese: “Ceuta”
- Pushto: “سیوتا”
- Quechua: “Siwta”
- Romanian: “Ceuta”
- Russia Buriat: “Сеута”
- Russian: “Сеута”
- Sardinian: “Ceuta”
- Scots: “Ceuta”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ceuta”
- Serbian: “Сеута”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ceuta”
- Shan: “သူးတ”
- Sicilian: “Ceuta”
- Sinhala: “සියුටා”
- Skolt Sami: “Ceuta”
- Slovak: “Ceuta”
- Slovenian: “Ceuta”
- South Azerbaijani: “سئوتا”
- Spanish: “Ceuta”
- Sundanese: “Céuta”
- Swahili: “Ceuta”
- Swedish: “Ceuta”
- Swiss German: “Ceuta”
- Tagalog: “Ceuta”
- Tamil: “சியூடா”
- Tamil: “செயுத்தா”
- Tatar: “Seuta”
- Tatar: “Сеута”
- Telugu: “సియుటా”
- Telugu: “సియూటా”
- Thai: “เซวตา”
- Turkish: “Sebte”
- Ukrainian: “Сеута”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ceuta”
- Urdu: “سبته”
- Urdu: “سبتہ”
- Uzbek: “Seuta”
- Venetian: “Ceuta”
- Vietnamese: “Ceuta”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ceuta”
- Welsh: “Ceuta”
- Western Armenian: “Սեուտա”
- Wu Chinese: “休达”
- Yoruba: “Ceuta”
- Yue Chinese: “休達”
- Zeeuws: “Ceuta”
- Zulu: “Ceuta”
- “Ceuta”
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