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Gela

Gela is a medium-sized city on the south coast of , . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 70,700 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gela railway station and Bosco Littorio.

Railway station
Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gela is the main railway station of the Italian city of Gela, in the , . It is owned by the Ferrovie dello Stato, the national rail company of .

Photo: Io‘, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a sandy area with dense vegetation on the coast in the comune of Gela, containing the archaeological remains of the archaic emporium of Gela, which dates to the period between the 8th and 5th centuries BC.

Stadium
Vincenzo Presti is a multi-use in Gela, Italy. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Gela Calcio. The stadium holds 4,400.

Gela

Latitude
37.0664° or 37° 3′ 59″ north
Longitude
14.2502° or 14° 15′ 1″ east
Population
70,700
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT GEA
Open location code
8F9P3782+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2175182737
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2524653
Wiki­data ID
Q39971
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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: “Гела”
  • Belarusian: “Джэла”
  • Bosnian: “Gela”
  • Breton: “Gela”
  • Bulgarian: “Джела”
  • Catalan: “Gela”
  • Catalan: “Lindis”
  • Cebuano: “Gela”
  • Chechen: “Джела”
  • Chinese: “Gela”
  • Chinese: “傑拉”
  • Chinese: “杰拉”
  • Chinese: “格拉”
  • Cree: “Gela”
  • Czech: “Gela”
  • Danish: “Gela”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gela”
  • Dutch: “Gela”
  • Dutch: “Terranova di Sicilia”
  • 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: “Capo Soprano”
  • Italian: “Gela”
  • Italian: “Heraclea”
  • Italian: “Terranova di Sicilia”
  • Italian: “Terranova”
  • Japanese: “ジェーラ”
  • Javanese: “Gela”
  • Kannada: “ಜೇಲ”
  • Kazakh: “Гела”
  • Korean: “젤라”
  • Kotava: “Gela”
  • Kurdish: “Gela”
  • Ladin: “Gela”
  • Ladino: “Gela”
  • Latin: “Gela”
  • Latin: “Terra Nova Siciliae”
  • Latvian: “Džela”
  • Latvian: “Gela”
  • Lithuanian: “Džela”
  • Lithuanian: “Gela”
  • Lombard: “Gela”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gela”
  • Macedonian: “Џела”
  • Malay: “Gela”
  • Marathi: “गेल”
  • 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: “Гела”
  • Russian: “Джела”
  • Russian: “Терранова”
  • Sanskrit: “गेला”
  • Sardinian: “Gela”
  • Scots: “Gela”
  • Serbian: “Gela”
  • Serbian: “Ђела”
  • Serbian: “Џела”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gela”
  • Sicilian: “Gela”
  • Sicilian: “Gilisi”
  • Slovak: “Gela”
  • Slovenian: “Gela”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قلا”
  • Spanish: “Gela”
  • Swahili: “Gela”
  • Swedish: “Gela”
  • Tagalog: “Gela”
  • Tatar: “Җела”
  • Thai: “Gela”
  • Thai: “เกลา”
  • Thai: “เกล่า”
  • Thai: “เจลา”
  • Turkish: “Gela, Sicilya”
  • Turkish: “Gela”
  • Ukrainian: “Гела”
  • 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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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 “Gela”. Photo: Filippodbrs, CC BY-SA 3.0.