Ceuta

Ceuta is one of two exclaves in . The territory had several rulers before the in 1415 took control of this city east of . Since 1580 it has been under Spanish administration, but has the status of an autonomous city.
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  • Type: City with 68,800 residents
  • Description: Spanish autonomous city in northwestern Africa
  • Also known as: “Sabtah”
  • Postal codes: 51001-51005, 51070, 51071, and 51080

Places of Interest

Highlights include Monte Hacho and Royal Walls of Ceuta.

Peak
Photo: Jguk 2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a low mountain that overlooks the city of Ceuta, on the north coast of the . is positioned on the Mediterranean coast at the Strait of Gibraltar opposite , and along with the is claimed by some to be one of the Pillars of Hercules.

Castle
Photo: Jim Gordon, CC BY 2.0.
The are a line of fortification in Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish city in north Africa. The walls date to 962 in its oldest part and the most modern parts to the 18th century.

Church
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The Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption is a Roman Catholic church located in the city of Ceuta, in a small exclave on the northwest coast of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Foso Real, Ceuta.

Locality
Photo: Mario Sánchez Bueno, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a locality.

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
United Nations Location Code
ES CEU
Open location code
8C7PVMQW+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 291768008
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6362987
Wiki­data ID
Q5823
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Satellite Map

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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: “কেতোয়া”
  • Bengali: “সেউতা”
  • Betawi: “Sabtah”
  • Bosnian: “Ceuta”
  • Breton: “Ceuta”
  • Bulgarian: “Сеута”
  • Catalan: “Ceuta”
  • Catalan: “ciutat autònoma de Ceuta”
  • Cebuano: “Ceuta”
  • Central Kurdish: “سەبتە”
  • Central Kurdish: “سێوتا”
  • Chinese: “Ceuta”
  • Chinese: “休达”
  • Chinese: “休達”
  • Chinese: “塞卜泰”
  • Cornish: “Ceuta”
  • Croatian: “Ceuta”
  • Czech: “Ceuta”
  • Danish: “Ceuta”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ceuta”
  • Dutch: “Ceuta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ثيويتا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سبته”
  • Esperanto: “Ceŭto”
  • Estonian: “Ceuta”
  • Extremaduran: “Ceuta”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ceuta”
  • Finnish: “Ceuta”
  • French: “Ceuta”
  • Gagauz: “Ceuta”
  • Galician: “Ceuta”
  • Georgian: “სეუტა”
  • German: “Ceuta”
  • Greek: “Θέουτα”
  • Greek: “Κέουτα”
  • 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: “사브타”
  • Korean: “세우타”
  • Kurdish: “Ceuta”
  • Ladin: “Ceuta”
  • Ladino: “Seuta”
  • Latin: “Septa”
  • Latin: “Septem Fratres”
  • Latvian: “Sabta”
  • Latvian: “Seuta”
  • Latvian: “Seūta”
  • 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”
  • 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: “සබ්තාහ්”
  • 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”
  • Tamil: “ஸுடா”
  • Tatar: “Seuta”
  • Tatar: “Сеута”
  • Telugu: “సియుటా”
  • Telugu: “సియూటా”
  • Thai: “เซวตา”
  • Thai: “มณฑลตงซา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Ceuta”
  • 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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