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Gibraltar

Gibraltar, colloquially known as The Rock or Gib, is an overseas territory of the at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by to the north, while is a short distance across the strait to the south.
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  • Type: City with 32,600 residents
  • Description: British overseas territory on the coast of Spain
  • Also known as: “gi”, “Gib”, and “The Rock of Gibraltar”
  • Languages: English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Gibraltar International Airport and The Rock.

Aerodrome
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, previously known as North Front Airport, is the civilian airport that serves the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.

Peak
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of Gibraltar is a monolithic limestone mountain 426 m high dominating the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. It is situated near the end of a narrow 9-kilometre-long promontory stretching due south into the Mediterranean Sea and is located within the British territory of Gibraltar.

Cave
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Gorham's Cave is a sea-level cave in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. Though not a sea cave, it is often mistaken for one. Considered to be one of the last known habitations of the Neanderthals in Europe, the cave gives its name to the Gorham's…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Línea de la Concepción and Moorish Castle.

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is a city of 63,000 people in the Cadiz province of southwestern , just over the border from Gibraltar. It doesn't have much to recommend it as a tourist destination, but as you will have to at least pass through it if you're entering Gibraltar by land, its many atmospheric bars and restaurants might warrant a visit.

Neighborhood
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The is the name given to a medieval fortification in Gibraltar comprising various buildings, gates, and fortified walls, with the dominant features being the Tower of Homage and the Gate House.

Hamlet
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Catalan Bay is a bay and fishing in Gibraltar, on the eastern side of away from Westside.

Gibraltar

Latitude
36.1306° or 36° 7′ 50″ north
Longitude
-5.3466° or 5° 20′ 48″ west
Population
32,600
Area
6 km² (2.3 miles²)
Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)
Capital
Gibraltar
Currency
Pound (GIP)
Phone code
.gi
Internet domain
350
Open location code
8C8P4MJ3+69
Open­Street­Map ID
node 267933614
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2411586
Wiki­data ID
Q1410
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Gibraltar” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Gibraltar”
  • Afrikaans: “Gibraltar”
  • Akan: “Gyebralta”
  • Albanian: “Gjibraltar”
  • Albanian: “Gjibraltari”
  • Amharic: “ጂብራልተር”
  • Amharic: “ጅብራልታር”
  • Angika: “जिब्राल्टर”
  • Arabic: “جبرلتار”
  • Arabic: “جبل طارق (منطقة حكم ذاتي)”
  • Arabic: “جبل طارق”
  • Arabic: “جبلرتار”
  • Arabic: “جيبرالتار”
  • Arabic: “محمية جبل طارق”
  • Arabic: “مستعمرة جبل طارق”
  • Aragonese: “Chibraltar”
  • Armenian: “Ջիբրալթար”
  • Arpitan: “Gibraltar”
  • Arpitan: “Gibraltâr”
  • Assamese: “জিব্ৰাল্টৰ”
  • Asturian: “Xibraltar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cəbəli-Tariq”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cəbəllütariq”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cəbəllüttariq”
  • Balinese: “Gibraltar”
  • Bambara: “Zibralitari”
  • Bashkir: “Гибралтар”
  • Basque: “Gibraltar”
  • Bavarian: “Gibraltar”
  • Belarusian: “Гібралтар”
  • Belarusian: “Гібральтар”
  • Bengali: “জাবাল আল তারিক”
  • Bengali: “জিব্রাল্টার”
  • Betawi: “Jabal Tarik”
  • Bishnupriya: “জিব্রালটার”
  • Bosnian: “Gibraltar”
  • Breton: “Jibraltar”
  • Bulgarian: “Гибралтар”
  • Burmese: “ဂျီဘရော်လ်တာ”
  • Catalan: “Gibraltar”
  • Cebuano: “Gibraltar”
  • Central Kurdish: “گیبرالتار”
  • Chechen: “Гибралтар”
  • Chinese: “Gibraltar”
  • Chinese: “直布罗陀 / 直布羅陀”
  • Chinese: “直布罗陀”
  • Chinese: “直布羅陀”
  • Chuvash: “Гибралтар”
  • Cornish: “Jibraltar”
  • Croatian: “Gibraltar”
  • Czech: “Gibraltar”
  • Czech: “Gibraltár”
  • Danish: “Gibraltar”
  • Dhivehi: “ޖަބަލްޠާރިޤު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cebelitarıq”
  • Dutch: “GI”
  • Dutch: “GIB”
  • Dutch: “Gibraltar”
  • Dzongkha: “ཇིབ་རཱལ་ཊར”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيبرالتار”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝibraltaro”
  • Estonian: “Gibraltar”
  • Ewe: “Gibraltar nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Gibraltar”
  • Faroese: “Gibraltar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Gibraltar”
  • Finnish: “Gibraltar”
  • French: “Gibraltar”
  • Fulah: “Jibraltaar”
  • Gagauz: “Cebelitarık”
  • Galician: “Gibraltar”
  • Galician: “Xibraltar”
  • Ganda: “Giburalita”
  • Georgian: “გიბრალტარი”
  • Georgian: “ჰიბრალტარი”
  • German: “Gibraltar”
  • Gothic: “𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌲𐌿𐌽𐌹 𐍄𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌹𐍃”
  • Greek: “Γιβραλτάρ”
  • Gujarati: “જિબ્રાલ્ટર”
  • Gujarati: “જીબ્રાલ્ટર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Gibraltar”
  • Hausa: “Gibraltar”
  • Hausa: “Jibaraltar”
  • Hebrew: “גיברלטר”
  • Hindi: “जिब्राल्टर”
  • Hungarian: “Dzsabal Tárik”
  • Hungarian: “Gibraltár”
  • Hungarian: “Ţāriq hegye”
  • Hungarian: “جبل طارق”
  • Icelandic: “Gíbraltar”
  • Ido: “Gibraltar”
  • Igbo: “Gibraltar”
  • Inari Sami: “Gibraltar”
  • Indonesian: “Gibraltar”
  • Interlingua: “Gibraltar”
  • Interlingue: “Gibraltar”
  • Irish: “Giobráltar”
  • Italian: “Gibilterra”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Jibralta”
  • Japanese: “ジブラルタル”
  • Javanese: “Gibraltar”
  • Kabyle: “Adrar n Ṭariq”
  • Kalaallisut: “Gibraltar”
  • Kalmyk: “Гибралта Балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಗಿಬ್ರಾಲ್ಟರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಬ್ರಾಲ್ಟರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gibraltar”
  • Kashmiri: “جِبرالٹَر”
  • Kazakh: “Гибралтар”
  • Khmer: “ហ្ស៊ីប្រាល់តា”
  • Kikuyu: “Jibralta”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Giburalitari”
  • Kirghiz: “Гибралтар”
  • Korean: “지브롤터”
  • Kurdish: “Cîbraltar”
  • Kurdish: “Gibraltar”
  • Ladin: “Gibraltar”
  • Ladino: “Gibraltar”
  • Ladino: “Jibraltar”
  • Lao: “ກິບຣາທາ”
  • Lao: “ຈິບບຣອນທາ”
  • Latin: “Calpe”
  • Latin: “Gibraltar”
  • Latin: “Gibraltaria”
  • Latvian: “Gibraltārs”
  • Lezghian: “Гибралтар”
  • Ligurian: “Gibiltæra”
  • Limburgan: “Gibraltar”
  • Lingala: “Zibatalɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Jibraltar”
  • Literary Chinese: “直布羅陀”
  • Lithuanian: “Gibraltaras”
  • Lombard: “Gibiltera”
  • Low German: “Gibraltar”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Gibraltar”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Jibeletale”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gibraltar”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ghibraltar”
  • Macedonian: “Гибралтар”
  • Maithili: “गिब्राल्टार”
  • Malagasy: “Gibraltara”
  • Malagasy: “Zibraltara”
  • Malay: “Gibraltar”
  • Malayalam: “ജിബ്രാൾട്ടർ”
  • Maltese: “Ġibiltà”
  • Manx: “Gibraaltar”
  • Maori: “Kāmaka”
  • Marathi: “जिब्राल्टर”
  • Mazanderani: “جبل طارق”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gibraltar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gibraltar”
  • Mingrelian: “გიბრალტარი”
  • Mirandese: “Gibraltar”
  • Mongolian: “Гибралтар”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جبل الطر”
  • Narom: “Dgibrâltar”
  • Nepali: “गिब्राल्टार”
  • Nepali: “जिब्राल्टार”
  • Newari: “जिब्राल्टर”
  • North Ndebele: “Gibraltar”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gibraltaar”
  • Northern Sami: “Gibraltar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gibraltar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gibraltar”
  • Norwegian: “Gibraltar”
  • Novial: “Gibraltar”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Gibraltar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gibartar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gibraltar”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Calpis”
  • Oriya: “ଜିବ୍ରାଲେଟର”
  • Oriya: “ଜିବ୍ରାଲ୍ଟର”
  • Oriya: “ଜିବ୍ରାଲ୍ଟର୍”
  • Ossetian: “Гибралтар”
  • Pampanga: “Gibraltar”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਿਬਰਾਲਟਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Gibraltar”
  • Persian: “جبل طارق”
  • Persian: “جبل‌الطارق”
  • Picard: “Gibraltar”
  • Piemontese: “Gibiltèra”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Jibrulta”
  • Polish: “Gibraltar”
  • Portuguese: “gi”
  • Portuguese: “Gib”
  • Portuguese: “Gibraltar”
  • Portuguese: “O Rochedo de Gibraltar”
  • Pushto: “جبل الطارق”
  • Quechua: “Gibraltar”
  • Romanian: “Gibraltar”
  • Romansh: “Gibraltar”
  • Rundi: “Juburalitari”
  • Russian: “Гибралтар”
  • Rusyn: “Ґібралтар”
  • Rusyn: “Джібралтар”
  • Samogitian: “Gėbraltars”
  • Sango: “Zibraltära, Zibaratära”
  • Sardinian: “Gibraltar”
  • Scots: “Gibraltar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Diobraltar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Giobraltair”
  • Serbian: “Гибралтар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gibraltar”
  • Shan: “ၵျီႇပရေႃးတႃး”
  • Shona: “Gibraltar”
  • Sicilian: “Gibbilterra”
  • Silesian: “Gibraltar”
  • Sindhi: “جبرالٽر”
  • Sindhi: “جبل الطارق”
  • Sinhala: “ජිබ්‍රෝල්ටාව”
  • Slovak: “Gibraltár”
  • Slovenian: “Gibraltar”
  • Somali: “Gibraltar”
  • Somali: “Jibraltaar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جبل الطارق”
  • Spanish: “Gibraltar”
  • Spanish: “la Roca”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵟⴰⵔⵉⵇ”
  • Sundanese: “Gibraltar”
  • Swahili: “Gibraltar”
  • Swedish: “Gibraltar”
  • Swiss German: “Gibraltar”
  • Tachelhit: “Djabal Ṭariq”
  • Tagalog: “Gibraltar”
  • Tagalog: “Hibraltar”
  • Tajik: “Гибралтар”
  • Tajik: “Ҷабалутториқ”
  • Tamil: “ஜிப்ரால்டர்”
  • Tamil: “ஜிப்ரால்ட்டர்”
  • Tatar: “Гибралтар”
  • Telugu: “జిబ్రాల్టర్”
  • Tetum: “Jibraltár”
  • Thai: “ยิบรอลตาร์”
  • Tibetan: “ཇིབ་རཱལ་ཊར།”
  • Tigrinya: “ጊብራልታር”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sipalālitā”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Gibraltar”
  • Tsonga: “Gibraltar”
  • Tumbuka: “Gibraltar”
  • Turkish: “Cebelitarık”
  • Turkmen: “Gibraltar”
  • Uighur: “جەبىلتارىق”
  • Ukrainian: “Гібралтар”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґібралтар”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Gibraltar”
  • Urdu: “جبرالٹر”
  • Urdu: “جبل الطارق”
  • Urdu: “جبل‌الطارق”
  • Uzbek: “Gibraltar”
  • Venetian: “Gibiltera”
  • Venetian: “Zibiltera”
  • Venetian: “Zibraltera”
  • Vietnamese: “Gibraltar”
  • Vlaams: “Gibraltar”
  • Walloon: “Djibraltar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gibraltar”
  • Welsh: “Gibraltar”
  • Western Frisian: “Gibraltar”
  • Western Panjabi: “جبرالٹر”
  • Wolof: “Jibraltaar”
  • Wolof: “Sibraltaar”
  • Wu Chinese: “直布罗陀”
  • Xhosa: “Gilbhraltha”
  • Yakut: “Гибралтаар”
  • Yiddish: “גיבראלטאר”
  • Yiddish: “גיבראַלטאַר”
  • Yoruba: “Gibaratara”
  • Yoruba: “Gibraltar”
  • Yue Chinese: “直布羅陀”
  • Zeeuws: “Hibraltar”
  • Zulu: “i-Gibraltar”
  • “Gėbraltars”
  • “GI”
  • “GIB”
  • “Gibraltar”
  • “ma Sipata”
  • “ma Sipujola”

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