Costa del Sol
The Costa del Sol is a long stretch of Mediterranean coastline in the Andalucia region of southern Spain. It is one of the most important tourist areas in Spain, drawing northern Europeans and Spaniards for its beaches, beautiful weather, and relaxed attitude.
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Costa del Sol
- Type: Coast with 1,360,000 residents
- Description: coastal area in Andalusia, Spain
- Also known as: “Coast of the Sun”, “Costa del Crime”, “costa del viento”, “Côte du Soleil”, “Sonnenküste”, “Spanska solkusten”, “Wybrzeże Słońca”, “Ακτή του ήλιου”, “Коста дель Соль”, and “الساحل الشمس”
- Categories: coast, tourism region, and tourist destination
- Location: Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
36.6761° or 36° 40′ 34″ north
Longitude of center
-4.4247° or 4° 25′ 29″ west
Population
1,360,000
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Costa del Sol” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Costa del Sol”
- Arabic: “ساحل الشمس”
- Armenian: “Կոստա դել Սոլ”
- Basque: “Costa del Sol”
- Bengali: “কোস্টা দেল সল”
- Catalan: “Costa del Sol”
- Cebuano: “Costa del Sol”
- Chinese: “太阳海岸”
- Chinese: “太陽海岸”
- Czech: “Costa del Sol”
- Danish: “Costa del Sol”
- Dutch: “Costa del Sol”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوستا ديل سول”
- Esperanto: “Costa del Sol”
- Estonian: “Costa del Sol”
- Finnish: “Aurinkorannikko”
- French: “Costa del Sol”
- Galician: “Costa do Sol”
- German: “Costa del Sol”
- Greek: “Κόστα δελ Σολ”
- Hebrew: “קוסטה דל סול”
- Hungarian: “Costa del Sol”
- Icelandic: “Costa del Sol”
- Indonesian: “Spanyol selatan”
- Italian: “Costa del Sol”
- Japanese: “コスタ・デル・ソル”
- Korean: “코스타델솔”
- Lithuanian: “Kosta del Solis”
- Low German: “Costa del Sol”
- Luxembourgish: “Costa del Sol”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Costa del Sol”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Costa del Sol”
- Norwegian: “Costa del Sol”
- Persian: “کوستا دل سل”
- Polish: “Costa del Sol”
- Portuguese: “Costa del Sol”
- Romanian: “Costa del Sol”
- Russian: “Коста-дель-Соль”
- Serbian: “Kosta del Sol”
- Serbian: “Коста дел Сол”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Costa del Sol”
- Slovak: “Costa del Sol”
- Spanish: “Costa del Sol”
- Swedish: “Costa del Sol”
- Thai: “โกสตาเดลโซล”
- Turkish: “Costa del Sol”
- Ukrainian: “Коста-дель-Соль”
- Urdu: “کوسٹا ڈیل سول”
- Vietnamese: “Costa del Sol”
- Vlaams: “Costa del Sol”
- Welsh: “Costa del Sol”
- “Costa del Sol”
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