Green Spain
Green Spain is the region in northern Spain bordering the Atlantic and Bay of Biscay. It's cool, wet, green and culturally distinct from the rest of Spain. It's well-developed for tourism and has major attractions yet few foreign visitors discover it.
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Green Spain
- Region
- Description: Coastal region in the north of Spain
- Also known as“Cantabrian Coast”“Cornisa Cantábrica”“Costa verde”“España verde”
- Category: coast
- Location
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Latitude of center
42.585° or 42° 35′ 6″ north
Longitude of center
-5.933° or 5° 55′ 59″ west
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Green Spain” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կանաչ Իսպանիա”
- Asturian: “Cornisa Cantábrica”
- Asturian: “Rexón Cantábrica”
- Basque: “Kantabriar Erlaitza”
- Basque: “Kantauri itsasoko ertza”
- Basque: “Kantauriar Erlaitz”
- Basque: “Kantauriar erlaitza”
- Basque: “Kantauriar Erlaitza”
- Basque: “Kantauriar eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Зялёная Гішпанія”
- Bengali: “সবুজ স্পেন”
- Bosnian: “Costa Verde”
- Catalan: “cornisa Cantàbrica”
- Catalan: “Cornisa Cantàbrica”
- Chinese: “坎塔布里亞海岸”
- Chinese: “綠西班牙”
- Chinese: “绿西班牙”
- Croatian: “Costa Verde”
- Dutch: “Cornisa Cantabrica”
- Dutch: “Cornisa Cantábrica”
- Dutch: “Costa Cantabrica”
- Dutch: “Costa Cantábrica”
- Dutch: “Costa Verde”
- Dutch: “Groen Spanje”
- Dutch: “Groen-Spanje”
- Dutch: “Region Cantabrica”
- Dutch: “Región Cantábrica”
- Esperanto: “Kantabra Kornico”
- Estonian: “Kantaabria rannik”
- French: “Côte cantabrique”
- French: “Espagne verte”
- Galician: “Cornixa cantábrica”
- Galician: “Cornixa Cantábrica”
- German: “Costa Cantábrica”
- German: “Costa Verde”
- Greek: “Βορειοδυτική Ισπανία”
- Hebrew: “ספרד הירוקה”
- Indonesian: “Spanyol Hijau”
- Italian: “Cornice Cantabrica”
- Italian: “Costa verde spagnola”
- Japanese: “エスパーニャ・ベルデ”
- Korean: “에스파냐 베르데”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Costa Verde”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “España Verde”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grøne Spania”
- Polish: “Costa Verde”
- Portuguese: “Cornija Cantábrica”
- Russian: “Зелёная Испания”
- Serbian: “Коста Верде”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Costa Verde”
- Spanish: “Cornisa cantabrica”
- Spanish: “Cornisa Cantabrica”
- Spanish: “Cornisa cantábrica”
- Spanish: “Cornisa Cantábrica”
- Spanish: “Costa cantabrica”
- Spanish: “Costa cantábrica”
- Spanish: “España Verde”
- Spanish: “Noroeste de España”
- Spanish: “Region Cantabrica”
- Spanish: “Region Cantábrica”
- Spanish: “Región Cantabrica”
- Spanish: “Región cantábrica”
- Spanish: “Región Cantábrica”
- Ukrainian: “Зелена Іспанія”
- Venetian: “Costa Verda spagnoła”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Ban Nha Xanh”
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