Galicia

Galicia or Galiza is a region in the northwest corner of Spain, part of "". It's bordered by to the northeast, to the east, and the region of Portugal to the south.
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is the capital city of Galicia in northwest Spain. It's named for Saint James, one of the twelve Apostles of Christ, and in legend is his burial site.

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is a city in Galicia in northwest Spain, encircled by intact Roman walls, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It's a popular start point for pilgrims on one of the trails to Santiago de Compostela.

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is a city in Galicia in northwest Spain, with a population of 83,000 in 2024. Its old town has a fine collection of 16th - 18th century churches, and stands on the Portuguese branch of the pilgrimage route to Santiago.

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is a large port in Galicia in northwest Spain. Its sights reflect its heritage as a fortified harbour much battered by other nations. The city is the site of the Roman Tower of Hercules, a lighthouse which has been in continuous operation since possibly the 2nd century AD.

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is a port in Galicia in northwest Spain. It's industrial but has an old town and lots of maritime heritage. In 2024 the population was 295,000.

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is a city in Galicia in northwest Spain, with a population of 105,000 in 2024. It's mostly modern and industrial but has a medieval quarter around its cathedral, a stop on the Via de la Plata branch of El Camino pilgrimage trail to Santiago.

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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.

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is a town in Galicia on the north bank of the Miño River, on the border with Portugal. In Castilian Spanish it's "Tuy" but Galician place names are now the official version.

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is a town in Galicia on the Atlantic coast of Spain, 20 km south of Vigo. It has a small fishing fleet but is mostly a tourist resort, with a resident population of 12,500 in 2024.

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is a town in Galicia in northwest Spain. It's on the coast at the east edge of the region, separated by the broad river from the region of Asturias. In 2024 the population was 10,000.

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is a town in Galicia in northwest Spain, with a population of 5000 in 2024. It has an old quarter but is short of visitor accommodation.

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is a town in Galicia in northwest Spain, with a population of 13,800 in 2024. It has few visitor attractions but makes for a stopover on the Camino del Norte branch of the pilgrimage trail to Santiago.

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is a municipality in Galicia, . Its namesake main village has 9,300 inhabitants and lies on the French Way of the Way of St. James.

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is a village in Galicia, . It has 1,500 inhabitants and lies on the Northern Way of St. James. From via it's 114 km to Santiago de Compostela, which makes this section eligible to get the compostela, a certificate.

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or Finisterre means "land's end" and is in Galicia near the northwest tip of Spain. The name refers both to the rugged headland and the nearby village, which had a population of 4700 in 2021.

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is a peninsula, and the main town on that peninsula, linked by a tombola and highway to mainland Galicia in northwest Spain. It's a beach resort and in 2024 had a population of 11,000.

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is a town on the coast of Galicia in northwest Spain. With a population of 8200 in 2024, it's the largest of a string of fishing villages along this coast, with Serres to the north and Louro to the south. It's nowadays a relaxing beach resort.

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is a village in Galicia in northwest Spain, with a population of 3100 in 2025. The name derives from fontem sacratam, a holy or healing spring.

Galicia

Latitude of center
42.6195° or 42° 37′ 10″ north
Longitude of center
-7.8631° or 7° 51′ 47″ west
Population
2,700,000
Elevation
576 metres (1,890 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1099011107
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3336902
Wiki­data ID
Q3908
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Galicia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Galicië”
  • Afrikaans: “Galisië”
  • Albanian: “Galicia”
  • Amharic: “ጋሊስያ”
  • Arabic: “جاليسيا”
  • Arabic: “جليقية”
  • Arabic: “غاليسيا”
  • Arabic: “منطقة جليقية”
  • Arabic: “منطقة غاليسيا”
  • Aragonese: “Galicia”
  • Aragonese: “Galiza”
  • Armenian: “Գալիսիա”
  • Arpitan: “Galice”
  • Arpitan: “Goualice”
  • Asturian: “Galicia”
  • Asturian: “Galiza”
  • Aymara: “Galicia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qalisiya”
  • Basque: “Galiza”
  • Basque: “Galizia”
  • Bavarian: “Galicien”
  • Belarusian: “Галісія”
  • Bengali: “গালিথিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Galicija”
  • Breton: “Galiza”
  • Bulgarian: “Галисия”
  • Catalan: “Galícia”
  • Catalan: “Galiza”
  • Cebuano: “Galicia”
  • Central Kurdish: “گالیسیا”
  • Chechen: “Галиси”
  • Cherokee: “ᎦᎵᏍᏆ”
  • Cherokee: “ᎦᎵᏏᎠ”
  • Chinese: “Galicia”
  • Chinese: “加利西亚”
  • Chinese: “加利西亚自治区”
  • Chinese: “加利西亞”
  • Chinese: “加利西亞自治區”
  • Cornish: “Galisi”
  • Cornish: “Galithi”
  • Corsican: “Galizia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Galisiya”
  • Croatian: “Galicija”
  • Czech: “Galicie”
  • Danish: “Galicien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Galiçya”
  • Dutch: “Galicie”
  • Dutch: “Galicië”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جاليسيا”
  • Esperanto: “Galegio”
  • Esperanto: “Galiza”
  • Estonian: “Galicia”
  • Extremaduran: “Galicia”
  • Extremaduran: “Galiza”
  • Finnish: “Galicia”
  • French: “Galice”
  • French: “Galiza”
  • Galician: “Galicia”
  • Galician: “Galiza”
  • Georgian: “გალისია”
  • German: “Galicien”
  • Greek: “Γαλικία”
  • Guarani: “Galicia”
  • Haitian: “Galis”
  • Haitian: “Galisiya”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Galicia”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kâ-li-sî-â”
  • Hausa: “Galicia (Spain)”
  • Hausa: “Galicia”
  • Hausa: “Galiza”
  • Hebrew: “גליסיה”
  • Hindi: “गलिशिया”
  • Hungarian: “Galicia”
  • Icelandic: “Galisía”
  • Ido: “Galisia”
  • Igbo: “Galisa”
  • Indonesian: “Galisia”
  • Interlingua: “Gallecia”
  • Interlingue: “Galicia”
  • Irish: “An Ghailís (An Spáinn)”
  • Irish: “An Ghailís”
  • Irish: “Comunidade Autónoma de Galicia”
  • Irish: “Galicia”
  • Irish: “Galiza”
  • Italian: “Galizia”
  • Japanese: “ガリシア”
  • Japanese: “ガリシア地方”
  • Japanese: “ガリシア州”
  • Japanese: “ガリシア自治州”
  • Javanese: “Galicia”
  • Kabardian: “Галисиэ”
  • Kabyle: “Galisya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Galisiya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Галисия”
  • Kashubian: “Galicia”
  • Kazakh: “Галисия”
  • Kinaray-A: “Galisya”
  • Kinaray-A: “Galisyanhën”
  • Kinaray-A: “Galisyanhun”
  • Kirghiz: “Галисия”
  • Korean: “갈리시아 지방”
  • Korean: “갈리시아주”
  • Kurdish: “Galîsya”
  • Ladin: “Galizia (Spania)”
  • Ladin: “Galizia”
  • Ladino: “Galizia”
  • Latin: “Gallaecia”
  • Latvian: “Galisija”
  • Ligurian: “Galiçia”
  • Ligurian: “Galìçia”
  • Ligurian: “Galissia”
  • Limburgan: “Galicië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Galisia”
  • Lithuanian: “Galisija”
  • Lombard: “Galissia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Galicien”
  • Macedonian: “Галисија”
  • Malay: “Galicia”
  • Manx: “Yn Ghaleesh”
  • Maori: “Galicia”
  • Maori: “Karihia”
  • Marathi: “गालिसिया”
  • Mazanderani: “گالیسیا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Galicia”
  • Mingrelian: “გალისია”
  • Mirandese: “Galízia”
  • Mongolian: “Галиси”
  • Northern Frisian: “Galicien”
  • Northern Frisian: “Galitsien”
  • Northern Luri: “گالیسیا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galicia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galicia i Spania”
  • Norwegian: “Galicia”
  • Novial: “Galicia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Galícia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Galiza”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Galicia”
  • Oromo: “Galicia”
  • Ossetian: “Галиси”
  • Pampanga: “Galicia”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੈਲੀਸੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Galicia”
  • Persian: “گالیسیا”
  • Picard: “Galice”
  • Picard: “Galiche”
  • Piemontese: “Galissia”
  • Polish: “Galicia”
  • Polish: “Galicja”
  • Portuguese: “A Galiza”
  • Portuguese: “Galicia (Espanha)”
  • Portuguese: “Galícia”
  • Portuguese: “Galiza”
  • Pushto: “ګالیسیا”
  • Quechua: “Galisya”
  • Quechua: “Qalisya”
  • Romanian: “Galicia”
  • Russian: “Галисия”
  • Russian: “Галиция”
  • Rusyn: “Ґалісія”
  • Rusyn: “Ґаліція”
  • Samogitian: “Galėsėjė”
  • Sardinian: “Galicia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Galicien”
  • Scots: “Galicie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Galicia”
  • Serbian: “Галисија”
  • Serbian: “Галиција”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Galicija”
  • Sicilian: “Galizzia”
  • Slovak: “Galícia”
  • Slovenian: “Galicija”
  • Somali: “Galicia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قالیسیا”
  • Spanish: “Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia”
  • Spanish: “Galicia”
  • Spanish: “Galiza”
  • Swahili: “Galicia (Spain)”
  • Swahili: “Galicia”
  • Swedish: “Galicien”
  • Swiss German: “Galicien”
  • Tagalog: “Galicia”
  • Tajik: “Галисия”
  • Talysh: “Galisija”
  • Talysh: “Qalisiya”
  • Tamil: “கலீசியா”
  • Tatar: “Галисия”
  • Telugu: “గలిసియా”
  • Thai: “แคว้นกาลิเซีย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Galicien”
  • Turkish: “Galiçya”
  • Ukrainian: “Галісія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Galicija”
  • Urdu: “گالیسیا”
  • Uzbek: “Galisiya”
  • Venetian: “Gałisia”
  • Venetian: “Gałìsia”
  • Vietnamese: “Galicia”
  • Võro: “Galiitsia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Galicia”
  • Welsh: “Galisia”
  • Welsh: “Galiza”
  • Welsh: “Galys”
  • Western Armenian: “Կալիսիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Galysje”
  • Western Mari: “Галиси”
  • Western Panjabi: “گالیسیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “گالیکیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “伽利西亚”
  • Wu Chinese: “加利西亚”
  • Yiddish: “גאליסיע”
  • Yue Chinese: “加利西亞”
  • “Galėsėjė”
  • “Galicia”
  • “Galiitsia”
  • “Galiza”
  • “Galizia”
  • “ma Kaleko”
  • “ma Kaliki”

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