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Extremadura is a region of . Extremadura is characterized by the joviality of its people, so in any corner of the land of Extremadura there is a place of fun.
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is the capital of the Extremadura region in Spain. Founded in 25 BC, was once the capital of the Roman province of Lusitania. The city of 59,000 people still has numerous well-preserved Roman ruins, the group of which were declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1993.

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is a city in Extremadura on the western border of Spain, looking across into Portugal. Its sprawling surrounds are industrial and residential, with a population of 151,565 in 2011, but the old city centre has many places worth seeing, such as its Moorish citadel Alcazaba.

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Cáceres is a beautiful small city of 96,000 people in the Extremadura region of that is worth spending several days visiting. The Old Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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is a municipality of belonging to the , Extremadura. As of 2013, it has a population of 41,047. is located in the Western-Central , to the south of the .

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is a city of 9,000 people in Extremadura. Visitors are drawn by its old town's many medieval and renaissance buildings, and by the largest cheese fair in the world held in May.

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is a town of 17,000 people in Extremadura. Dominated by its 15th-century fortress is a pleasant town where you can take a stroll or hang out in one of its parks eating tapas while watching the world go by.

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is a rural area east of , . It is on the eastern boundary of Extremadura with Castile and Leon.

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The Roman city of is located in the north of Extremadura in the valley of the River Alagón. In Roman times it was in the province of Lusitania within the Conventus Iuridicus Emeritensis, whose capital was Colonia Augusta Emerita.

Extremadura

Latitude of center
39.1748° or 39° 10′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
-6.153° or 6° 9′ 11″ west
Population
1,050,000
Elevation
364 metres (1,194 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1721119349
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2593112
Wiki­data ID
Q5777
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Extremadura” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Extremadura”
  • Albanian: “Ekstremadura”
  • Albanian: “Extremadura”
  • Arabic: “إكستريمادورا”
  • Aragonese: “Estremadura”
  • Aragonese: “Extremadura”
  • Armenian: “Էստրեմադուրա”
  • Arpitan: “Èstrèmadura”
  • Asturian: “Estremadura”
  • Asturian: “Extremadura”
  • Azerbaijani: “Estremadura”
  • Balinese: “Extremadura”
  • Basque: “Extremadura”
  • Belarusian: “Эстрэмадура”
  • Bengali: “এক্সত্রেমাদুরা”
  • Bengali: “এস্ত্রেমাদুরা”
  • Bosnian: “Ekstremadura”
  • Bosnian: “Extremadura”
  • Breton: “Estremadura”
  • Breton: “Extremadura”
  • Bulgarian: “Естремадура”
  • Catalan: “Extremadura”
  • Cebuano: “Extremadura”
  • Chinese: “埃斯特雷馬杜拉”
  • Chinese: “埃斯特雷马杜拉”
  • Chinese: “易斯特里馬杜拉”
  • Cornish: “Extremadura”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Estremadura”
  • Croatian: “Ekstremadura”
  • Czech: “Extremadura”
  • Danish: “Extremadura”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ekstremadura”
  • Dutch: “Extremadura”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكستريمادورا”
  • Esperanto: “Ekstremaduro”
  • Estonian: “Extremadura”
  • Extremaduran: “Ehtremaúra”
  • Extremaduran: “Estremaúra”
  • Finnish: “Extremadura”
  • French: “Estrémadure”
  • Friulian: “Estremadure”
  • Galician: “Estremadura”
  • Galician: “Extremadura”
  • Georgian: “ესტრემადურა”
  • German: “Estremadura”
  • German: “Extremadura”
  • Greek: “Εξτρεμαδούρα”
  • Greek: “Εστρεμαδούρα”
  • Guarani: “Eteremaúra”
  • Guarani: “Extremadura”
  • Haitian: “Estremadure”
  • Hebrew: “אקסטרמדורה”
  • Hindi: “एक्सत्रेमेद्युरा”
  • Hungarian: “Extremadura”
  • Icelandic: “Extremadúra”
  • Ido: “Extremadura”
  • Indonesian: “Extremadura”
  • Interlingua: “Communitate Autonome Extremadura”
  • Interlingua: “Extremadura”
  • Interlingue: “Extremadura”
  • Irish: “Extremadura”
  • Italian: “Estremadura”
  • Japanese: “エストゥレマドゥーラ”
  • Japanese: “エストレマドゥーラ州”
  • Kazakh: “Естремадура”
  • Kazakh: “Эстремадура”
  • Kinaray-A: “Ekstremadura”
  • Kinaray-A: “Ekstremaduranhën”
  • Kinaray-A: “Ikstrimadora”
  • Kinaray-A: “Ikstrimadoranhun”
  • Kirghiz: “Эстремаура”
  • Korean: “에스트레마두라 지방”
  • Korean: “엑스트레마두라주”
  • Ladin: “Extremadura”
  • Ladino: “Estremadura”
  • Lao: “ແຄວ້ນແອສະຕະເຣມາດູ”
  • Latin: “Extremadura”
  • Latvian: “Estremadura”
  • Limburgan: “Extremadura”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Estremadura”
  • Literary Chinese: “埃斯特雷馬杜拉”
  • Lithuanian: “Estremadūra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Extremadura”
  • Macedonian: “Екстремадура”
  • Malay: “Extremadura”
  • Maltese: “Extremadura”
  • Maori: “Extremadura”
  • Marathi: “एस्त्रेमादुरा”
  • Mazanderani: “اکسترمادورا”
  • Mingrelian: “ესტრემადურა”
  • Mirandese: “Stremadura (Spanha)”
  • Mirandese: “Stremadura”
  • Moksha: “Эстрэмадура”
  • Mongolian: “Эстремадура”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ekstremaduura”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Extremadura”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Extremadura”
  • Norwegian: “Extremadura”
  • Novial: “Extremadura”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Extremadura”
  • Ossetian: “Эстремадурæ”
  • Papiamento: “Extremadura”
  • Persian: “اکسترمادورا”
  • Piemontese: “Estremadura”
  • Polish: “Estremadura”
  • Portuguese: “Estremadura”
  • Portuguese: “Extremadura”
  • Quechua: “Ikstrimadura”
  • Romanian: “Extremadura”
  • Russian: “Эстремадура”
  • Sardinian: “Estremadura”
  • Sardinian: “Istremadura”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Extremadura”
  • Scots: “Extremadura”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Extremadura”
  • Serbian: “Екстремадура”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ekstremadura”
  • Sicilian: “Estremadura”
  • Slovak: “Estremadura”
  • Slovak: “Extremadura”
  • Slovenian: “Ekstremadura”
  • Slovenian: “Estremadura”
  • Slovenian: “Extremadura”
  • Spanish: “Comunidad Autónoma de Extremadura”
  • Spanish: “Estremadura”
  • Spanish: “Extremadura”
  • Swahili: “Extremadura”
  • Swedish: “Extremadura”
  • Tagalog: “Extremadura”
  • Tatar: “Эстремадура”
  • Thai: “แคว้นเอกซ์เตรมาดูรา”
  • Thai: “แคว้นเอซเตรมาดูรา”
  • Turkish: “Ekstremadura”
  • Turkish: “Extremadura”
  • Ukrainian: “Естремадура”
  • Urdu: “اکستریمادورا”
  • Uzbek: “Extremadura”
  • Venetian: “Estremadura”
  • Veps: “Estremadur”
  • Vietnamese: “Extremadura”
  • Walloon: “Estremadoure”
  • Walloon: “Extremadura”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Extremadura”
  • Welsh: “Extremadura”
  • Western Frisian: “Ekstremadoera”
  • Western Frisian: “Ekstremadûra”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایکسٹریماڈورا”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃斯特雷馬杜拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “易斯特里馬杜拉”
  • “Estremadura”
  • “Extremadura”
  • “ma Ekematula”

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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 “Extremadura”. Photo: Mikel Ortega, CC BY-SA 2.0.