Gela
Gela is a medium-sized city on the south coast of Sicily, Italy. It is an ancient town, founded around 688 BC by colonists from Rhodes and Crete, and among the oldest continually inhabited settlements in southern Italy.
- Type: Town with 70,700 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “Capo Soprano”, “Gilisi”, “Heraclea”, “Lindis”, “Terra Nova Siciliae”, “Terranova”, “Terranova di Sicilia”, “Терранова”, “เกลา”, and “เกล่า”
- Neighbors: Caltagirone
Places of Interest
Highlights: Gela railway station and Bosco Littorio.
Stadio Vincenzo Presti
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Macchitella.
Gela
- Categories: comune of Italy, polis, and locality
- Location: Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.0664° or 37° 3′ 59″ north
Longitude
14.2502° or 14° 15′ 1″ east
Population
70,700
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IT GEA
Open location code
8F9P3782+H3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gela” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gela”
- Albanian: “Gela”
- Arabic: “جيلا”
- Arabic: “مدينة الأعمدة”
- Armenian: “Ջելա”
- Asturian: “Gela”
- Azerbaijani: “Cela”
- Basque: “Gela”
- Belarusian: “Джэла”
- Bosnian: “Gela”
- Breton: “Gela”
- Bulgarian: “Джела”
- Catalan: “Gela”
- Cebuano: “Gela”
- Chechen: “Джела”
- Chinese: “傑拉”
- Chinese: “杰拉”
- Chinese: “格拉”
- Cree: “Gela”
- Czech: “Gela”
- Danish: “Gela”
- Dimli (individual language): “Gela”
- Dutch: “Gela”
- Emilian: “Gela”
- Esperanto: “Gela”
- Estonian: “Gela”
- Finnish: “Gela”
- French: “Gela”
- French: “Géla”
- Galician: “Gela”
- Georgian: “ჯელა”
- German: “Gela”
- Greek: “Γέλα”
- Greek: “Τζέλα”
- Hebrew: “ג’לה”
- Hindi: “गेल”
- Hindi: “गेला”
- Hungarian: “Gela”
- Icelandic: “Gela”
- Indonesian: “Gela”
- Interlingua: “Gela”
- Irish: “Gela”
- Italian: “Gela”
- Japanese: “ジェーラ”
- Javanese: “Gela”
- Kannada: “ಜೇಲ”
- Kazakh: “Гела”
- Korean: “젤라”
- Kotava: “Gela”
- Kurdish: “Gela”
- Ladin: “Gela”
- Ladino: “Gela”
- Latin: “Gela”
- Latvian: “Džela”
- Lithuanian: “Džela”
- Lombard: “Gela”
- Luxembourgish: “Gela”
- Macedonian: “Џела”
- Malay: “Gela”
- Marathi: “गेला”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gela”
- Neapolitan: “Gela”
- Newari: “गेला”
- Newari: “ङेल”
- Northern Frisian: “Gela”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gela”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gela”
- Norwegian: “Gela”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gela”
- Ossetian: “Джелæ”
- Persian: “گلا”
- Piemontese: “Gela”
- Polish: “Gela”
- Portuguese: “Gela”
- Quechua: “Gela”
- Romanian: “Gela”
- Russian: “Джела”
- Sanskrit: “गेला”
- Sardinian: “Gela”
- Scots: “Gela”
- Serbian: “Ђела”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gela”
- Sicilian: “Gela”
- Slovak: “Gela”
- Slovenian: “Gela”
- South Azerbaijani: “قلا”
- Spanish: “Gela”
- Swahili: “Gela”
- Swedish: “Gela”
- Tagalog: “Gela”
- Tatar: “Җела”
- Thai: “เจลา”
- Tumbuka: “Gela”
- Turkish: “Gela, Sicilya”
- Turkish: “Gela”
- Ukrainian: “Джела”
- Venetian: “Gela”
- Vietnamese: “Gela”
- Vlaams: “Gela”
- Volapük: “Gela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gela”
- Welsh: “Gela”
- Western Armenian: “Ճելա”
- Wu Chinese: “杰拉”
- Yue Chinese: “傑拉”
- “Gela”
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