Gijón

Gijón is a port and metropolis in on the north coast of Spain. With a population of 270,000 in 2024, it's mostly modern but has an attractive old centre and many cultural attractions.
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  • Type: City with 256,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Asturias, Spain
  • Also known as: “Gijón/Xixón” and “Xixón”
  • Postal codes: 33200-33213, 33290, 33299, 33350, 33390-33394, and 33697
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include El Molinón and Gijón Railway Station.

Stadium
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Estadio , officially Estadio Municipal El Molinón-Enrique Castro "Quini", is an association football in Gijón, , . The stadium is the home ground of Real Sporting de Gijón.

Railway station
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, also known as Gijón Sanz Crespo, is the main railway station of Gijón, . Since 2011 it is located in Sanz Crespo street due to the works for the Metrotrén Asturias project.

Stadium
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The is a bullring located in Gijón, , . Situated in the neighbourhood of El Bibio, it was inaugurated on August 12, 1888, with a bullfighting with Luis Mazzantini and Rafael Guerra, Guerrita.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El Natahoyo and El Coto.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
is a parish of the municipality of Gijón / Xixón, in , Spain. Civil parishes are the legal subdivisions of the municipalities under the current statute of autonomy of Asturias.

Gijón

Latitude
43.5449° or 43° 32′ 42″ north
Longitude
-5.6628° or 5° 39′ 46″ west
Population
256,000
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
IATA airport code
QIJ
United Nations Location Code
ES GIJ
Open location code
8CMPG8VP+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 529391484
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3121424
Wiki­data ID
Q12273
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Gijón” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “خيخون”
  • Aragonese: “Gijón”
  • Aragonese: “Xixón”
  • Armenian: “Խիխոն”
  • Asturian: “Gijón”
  • Asturian: “Xixón”
  • Balinese: “Gijón”
  • Balinese: “Xixón”
  • Bashkir: “Хихон”
  • Basque: “Gijon”
  • Basque: “Gijón”
  • Basque: “Kixoi”
  • Basque: “Xixon”
  • Basque: “Xixón”
  • Belarusian: “Хіхон”
  • Breton: “Xixón”
  • Bulgarian: “Хихон”
  • Catalan: “Gijón”
  • Catalan: “Xixon”
  • Catalan: “Xixón”
  • Cebuano: “Gijón(kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Gijón”
  • Central Kurdish: “خیخۆن”
  • Chinese: “Gijón”
  • Chinese: “希杭”
  • Chinese: “希洪”
  • Chuvash: “Хихон”
  • Czech: “Gijón”
  • Danish: “Gijón”
  • Dutch: “Gijon”
  • Dutch: “Gijón”
  • Dutch: “Xixón”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “خيخون”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥiĥono”
  • Estonian: “Gijón”
  • Estonian: “Xixón”
  • Extremaduran: “Xixón”
  • Finnish: “Gijón”
  • French: “Gijon”
  • French: “Gijón”
  • Galician: “Gijón”
  • Galician: “Xixón”
  • Georgian: “ხიხონი”
  • German: “Gijon”
  • German: “Gijón”
  • German: “Xixon”
  • German: “Xixón”
  • Greek: “Χιχόν”
  • Hebrew: “חיחון”
  • Hungarian: “Gijón”
  • Icelandic: “Gijon”
  • Icelandic: “Gijón”
  • Indonesian: “Gijón”
  • Interlingua: “Gijón”
  • Interlingue: “Gijón”
  • Irish: “Gijón”
  • Italian: “Gijón”
  • Japanese: “ヒホン”
  • Kazakh: “Хихон”
  • Korean: “히혼”
  • Ladin: “Gijón”
  • Ladino: “Gijón”
  • Ladino: “Xixon”
  • Latin: “Gigia”
  • Latvian: “Hihona”
  • Lithuanian: “Chichonas”
  • Lombard: “Gijón”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gijón”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Gijón”
  • Macedonian: “Хихон”
  • Macedonian: “Шишон”
  • Malagasy: “Gijón”
  • Malay: “Gijón”
  • Maltese: “Gijon”
  • Maltese: “Gijón”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gijón”
  • Moksha: “Хихон”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gijón”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gijón”
  • Norwegian: “Gijón”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gijón”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Xixón”
  • Ossetian: “Хихон”
  • Pampanga: “Gijón”
  • Persian: “خیخن/کسیکسن”
  • Persian: “خیخن”
  • Polish: “Gijon”
  • Polish: “Gijón”
  • Portuguese: “Gijão”
  • Portuguese: “Gijón”
  • Quechua: “Gijón”
  • Romanian: “Gijon”
  • Romanian: “Gijón”
  • Russian: “Хихон”
  • Sanskrit: “हिहोन”
  • Scots: “Gijón”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gijón”
  • Serbian: “Хихон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gijón”
  • Silesian: “Gijón”
  • Sinhala: “ගිහෝන්”
  • Slovak: “Gijón”
  • Slovenian: “Gijón”
  • South Azerbaijani: “خیخن”
  • Spanish: “Gijon”
  • Spanish: “Gijón”
  • Spanish: “Xixón”
  • Swahili: “Gijón”
  • Swedish: “Gijón”
  • Swedish: “Xixón”
  • Talysh: “Gijón”
  • Talysh: “Xixon”
  • Tamil: “கிகோன்”
  • Tatar: “Gijón”
  • Tatar: “Хихон”
  • Thai: “คีคอน”
  • Thai: “ฆิฆอน”
  • Turkish: “Gijón / Xixón”
  • Turkish: “Gijón”
  • Twi: “Gijón”
  • Ukrainian: “Хіхон”
  • Urdu: “خیخون”
  • Venetian: “Gijón”
  • Vietnamese: “Gijón”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gijón”
  • Welsh: “Gijón”
  • Welsh: “Xixón”
  • Western Panjabi: “گیجون”
  • Wu Chinese: “希洪”
  • Yue Chinese: “希杭”
  • “Gijón”
  • “Xixón”

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