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Mérida

Mérida is the capital of the Extremadura region in Spain. Founded in 25 BC, Mérida was once the capital of the Roman province of Lusitania. The city of 59,000 people still has numerous well-preserved Roman ruins, the group of which were declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1993.
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  • Type: City with 58,200 residents
  • Description: municipality in Extremadura, Spain
  • Also known as: “Merida” and “Mérida, Spain”
  • Postal code: 06800
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Puente Romano and Estadio Romano.

Bridge
Photo: Fernando, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a Roman bridge over the Guadiana River at Mérida in southwest Spain. The was built c. First Century CE. It is the world's longest surviving bridge from ancient times, having once featured an estimated overall length of 755 m with 62 spans.

Stadium
Photo: SmartCasual, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a multi-use in Mérida, Spain. It is currently used for football matches and is the home ground of Mérida AD. The stadium holds 14,600 people and opened in 1954.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mérida

Latitude
38.9175° or 38° 55′ 3″ north
Longitude
-6.3444° or 6° 20′ 40″ west
Population
58,200
Elevation
223 metres (732 feet)
IATA airport code
QWX
United Nations Location Code
ES MEA
Open location code
8CCMWM84+X6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 252217933
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2513917
Wiki­data ID
Q14323
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Mérida” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Mérida, Spanjë”
  • Albanian: “Mérida”
  • Amharic: “ሜሪዳ፣ እስፓንያ”
  • Arabic: “ماردة”
  • Arabic: “مريدا”
  • Aragonese: “Mérida”
  • Armenian: “Մերիդա”
  • Asturian: “Mérida”
  • Azerbaijani: “Merida”
  • Basque: “Mérida”
  • Belarusian: “Мерыда (Іспанія)”
  • Belarusian: “Мерыда”
  • Belarusian: “Мэрыда”
  • Bengali: “মেরিদা, স্পেন”
  • Bislama: “Mérida”
  • Bosnian: “Mérida”
  • Breton: “Mérida”
  • Bulgarian: “Мерида”
  • Catalan: “Mèrida”
  • Cebuano: “Mérida”
  • Chinese: “Mérida”
  • Chinese: “梅里达”
  • Chinese: “梅里達”
  • Chinese: “美利達”
  • Chuvash: “Мерида (Испани)”
  • Chuvash: “Мерида”
  • Croatian: “Mérida”
  • Czech: “Mérida”
  • Dagbani: “Mérida”
  • Danish: “Mérida”
  • Dutch: “Merida (Spanje)”
  • Dutch: “Merida”
  • Dutch: “Mérida”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مارده”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميريدا”
  • Esperanto: “Mérida”
  • Esperanto: “Merido”
  • Estonian: “Mérida”
  • Extremaduran: “Méria”
  • Extremaduran: “Mérida”
  • Finnish: “Mérida”
  • French: “Mérida”
  • Galician: “Mérida, España”
  • Galician: “Mérida”
  • Georgian: “მერიდა”
  • German: “Mérida”
  • Greek: “Μέριδα”
  • Guarani: “Mérida (Epáña)”
  • Guarani: “Mérida”
  • Gujarati: “મેરિડા”
  • Hebrew: “מרידה”
  • Hindi: “मेरिदा”
  • Hungarian: “Mérida”
  • Icelandic: “Mérida”
  • Ido: “Mérida, Hispania”
  • Indonesian: “Mérida, Extremadura”
  • Indonesian: “Mérida, Spanyol”
  • Indonesian: “Mérida”
  • Interlingua: “Mérida”
  • Interlingue: “Mérida”
  • Irish: “Mérida”
  • Italian: “Mérida”
  • Japanese: “メリダ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆರಿಡಾ”
  • Korean: “메리다”
  • Ladin: “Mérida”
  • Ladino: “Mérida, Espanya”
  • Ladino: “Mérida”
  • Latin: “Augusta Emerita”
  • Latin: “Emerita Augusta”
  • Latvian: “Merida”
  • Lithuanian: “Merida”
  • Lombard: “Mérida (Spagna)”
  • Lombard: “Mérida”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mérida”
  • Macedonian: “Мерида”
  • Malay: “Mérida, Sepanyol”
  • Malay: “Merida”
  • Maltese: “Mérida (Spanja)”
  • Maltese: “Mérida”
  • Marathi: “मेरिदा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mérida”
  • Moksha: “Мэрида”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mérida (Spoonien)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mérida”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mérida”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mérida i Spania”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mérida”
  • Norwegian: “Mérida”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mérida”
  • Ossetian: “Меридæ (Испани)”
  • Ossetian: “Меридæ”
  • Persian: “مریدا”
  • Polish: “Mérida”
  • Portuguese: “Mérida (Espanha)”
  • Portuguese: “Mérida”
  • Quechua: “Mérida”
  • Romanian: “Mérida, Spania”
  • Romanian: “Mérida”
  • Russian: “Мерида”
  • Sardinian: “Mérida”
  • Scots: “Mérida, Spain”
  • Scots: “Mérida”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mérida”
  • Serbian: “Мерида”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mérida, Španija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mérida”
  • Sicilian: “Merida”
  • Sinhala: “මෙරිඩා”
  • Slovak: “Mérida”
  • Slovenian: “Mérida, Španija”
  • Slovenian: “Mérida”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مریدا”
  • Spanish: “Merida”
  • Spanish: “Mérida”
  • Swedish: “Mérida”
  • Tajik: “Иёлоти Мерида”
  • Tamil: “மெரிடா”
  • Tatar: “Мерида (Испания)”
  • Tatar: “Мерида”
  • Telugu: “మెరిడ”
  • Thai: “เมริดา”
  • Turkish: “Mérida, Extremadura”
  • Turkish: “Mérida”
  • Ukrainian: “Мерида”
  • Urdu: “میریدا، ہسپانیہ”
  • Urdu: “میریدا”
  • Venetian: “Mérida (Spagna)”
  • Venetian: “Mérida”
  • Vietnamese: “Mérida, Tây Ban Nha”
  • Vietnamese: “Mérida”
  • Volapük: “Mérida”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mérida, Badajoz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mérida”
  • Welsh: “Mérida”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅里達（西班牙）”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅里達”
  • Yue Chinese: “美利達”
  • “Mérida, Caxtillān”

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