Ferrol
Ferrol is a port in Galicia in northwest Spain, with a population of 64,000 in 2024. It's Spain's Atlantic navy base and ship-building centre, so it's industrial but with a long heritage.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Locality with 66,800 residents
- Description: municipality of Galicia, Spain, in the La Coruña province
- Also known as: “Cidade Departamental”, “El Ferolis”, “El Ferrol”, “El Ferrol del Caudillo”, “Ferrol del Caudillo”, “Ferrol, A Coruña”, “Ferrolterra”, “Le Ferrol”, “O Ferrol”, “Эль Ферроль”, “Эль-Фероль”, “فيرول، لا كرونيا”, and “埃尔费罗尔”
- Postal codes: 15401-15406, 15470, 15471, 15480, 15490, 15550, 15560, 15562, 15565, and 15590-15595
Places of Interest
Highlights: Estadio Municipal de A Malata and Spain’s National Exhibition of Ship Building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ferrol and Narón.
Ferrol
- Category: municipality of Galicia
- Location: A Coruña, Galicia, Green Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.4845° or 43° 29′ 4″ north
Longitude
-8.2329° or 8° 13′ 59″ west
Population
66,800
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
UN/LOCODE
ES FRO
Open location code
8CMHFQM8+RR
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Ferrol” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Ferrol, Galicia”
- Albanian: “Ferrol”
- Arabic: “فيرول، قرجيطة”
- Arabic: “فيرول”
- Aragonese: “Ferrol”
- Armenian: “Ֆեռոլ”
- Asturian: “Ferrol”
- Basque: “Ferrol”
- Belarusian: “Фероль”
- Belarusian: “Фэроль”
- Bosnian: “Ferrol”
- Breton: “Ferrol”
- Bulgarian: “Ферол”
- Catalan: “Ferrol”
- Cebuano: “Ferrol”
- Chechen: “Ферроль”
- Chinese: “費羅爾”
- Chinese: “费罗尔”
- Czech: “Ferrol”
- Danish: “Ferrol”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ferrol”
- Dutch: “Ferrol”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيرول, لا كرونيا”
- Esperanto: “Ferrol”
- Estonian: “Ferrol”
- Extremaduran: “Ferrol”
- Finnish: “Ferrol”
- French: “Ferrol”
- Galician: “Ferrol”
- Georgian: “ფეროლი”
- German: “Ferrol”
- Greek: “Φερόλ”
- Greek: “Φερρόλ”
- Guarani: “Ferrol”
- Hebrew: “פרול”
- Hungarian: “Ferrol”
- Icelandic: “Ferrol”
- Indonesian: “Ferrol”
- Interlingua: “Ferrol”
- Interlingue: “Ferrol”
- Irish: “Ferrol”
- Italian: “Ferrol”
- Japanese: “フェロル”
- Korean: “페롤”
- Ladin: “Ferrol”
- Ladino: “Ferrol”
- Latvian: “Ferola”
- Lithuanian: “Ferolis”
- Lombard: “Ferrol”
- Macedonian: “Ферол”
- Malay: “Ferrol, Sepanyol”
- Malay: “Ferrol”
- Maori: “Ferrol”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ferrol”
- Northern Frisian: “Ferrol”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ferrol”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ferrol”
- Norwegian: “Ferrol”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ferrol”
- Ossetian: “Ферроль”
- Persian: “فرول”
- Piemontese: “Ferrol”
- Polish: “Ferrol”
- Portuguese: “Ferrol”
- Romanian: “Ferrol”
- Russian: “Феррол”
- Russian: “Ферроль”
- Russian: “Эль-Ферроль”
- Scots: “Ferrol”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ferrol”
- Serbian: “Ferol”
- Serbian: “Ферол”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ferrol”
- Slovenian: “Ferrol”
- South Azerbaijani: “فرول”
- Spanish: “Ferrol”
- Swedish: “Ferrol”
- Tatar: “Ферроль”
- Thai: “เฟร์รอล”
- Turkish: “Ferrol”
- Ukrainian: “Ферроль”
- Urdu: “فیرول”
- Uzbek: “Ferrol”
- Venetian: “Ferrol”
- Vietnamese: “Ferrol, Tây Ban Nha”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ferrol, Espanya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ferrol”
- Welsh: “Ferrol”
- Western Panjabi: “فیرول”
- Wu Chinese: “费罗尔”
- Yue Chinese: “費羅爾”
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