Gibraltar
Gibraltar, colloquially known as The Rock or Gib, is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Spain to the north, while Morocco 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 southern end of the Iberian Peninsula
- Also known as: “Dzsabal Tárik”, “gi”, “GI”, “Gib”, “GIB”, “la Roca”, “O Rochedo de Gibraltar”, “Ţāriq hegye”, “Zibraltera”, “جبرلتار”, “جبل طارق (منطقة حكم ذاتي)”, “جبلرتار”, “محمية جبل طارق”, and “জাবাল আল তারিক”
- Languages: English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
- Neighbors: Andalusia and Spain
Places of Interest
Highlights: The Rock and Gorham’s Cave.
Gorham’s Cave
Cave
Gibraltar International Airport
Airport terminal
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Línea de la Concepción and East Side.
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
350
Internet domain
.gi
Open location code
8C8P4MJ3+69
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Satellite Map
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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: “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: “জিব্রাল্টার”
- Betawi: “Jabal Tarik”
- Bishnupriya: “জিব্রালটার”
- Bosnian: “Gibraltar”
- Breton: “Jibraltar”
- Bulgarian: “Гибралтар”
- Burmese: “ဂျီဘရော်လ်တာ”
- Catalan: “Gibraltar”
- Cebuano: “Gibraltar”
- Central Kurdish: “گیبرالتار”
- Chechen: “Гибралтар”
- 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: “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: “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: “Gibraltár”
- 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”
- Jèrriais: “Dgibrâltar”
- 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”
- 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”
- Mon: “ဂျဳဗရဝ်တာ”
- Mongolian: “Гибралтар”
- Moroccan Arabic: “جبل الطر”
- 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: “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”
- 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”
- 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”
- Vietnamese: “Gibraltar”
- Vlaams: “Gibraltar”
- Võro: “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”
- “Gibraltar”
- “ma Sipata”
- “ma Sipujola”
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