Medellín
Medellín is the second largest city in Colombia. It has 2.6 million residents and is the capital of the department of Antioquia. It's set in a valley running south to north and just a one-hour flight from Bogotá.
Photo: Seb26, CC0.
Notable Places in the Area
Museum of Antioquia
Museum
The Museum of Antioquia is an art museum in Medellín, Colombia. Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Medellín Museum of Modern Art
Museum
The Museum of Modern Art of Medellín is a museum of modern art in the Colombian city of Medellín. Photo: Pedro Felipe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Medellín Metropolitan Theatre
Theater
The José Gutiérrez Gómez Medellín Metropolitan Theatre is the most important and biggest theater in Medellín, Colombia. Photo: SajoR, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Teatro Lido
Theater
The Teatro Lido is a Colombian theater placed at the southeastern coast of Park of Bolívar, in Medellín. Photo: SajoR, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City
- Description: city in Colombia, capital of Colombian department Antioquia
- Categories: municipality of Colombia, big city, million city, second largest city and locality
- Location: Antioquia, Andino, Colombia, South America
Localities in the Area
Medellín
Latitude
6.2443° or 6° 14' 40" northLongitude
-75.5736° or 75° 34' 25" westPopulation
2,440,000Elevation
1,405 metres (4,610 feet)IATA airport code
MDEUnited Nations Location Code
CO MDEOpen Location Code
67R66CVG+PHOpenStreetMap ID
node 344799743GeoNames ID
3674962Also Known As
- Achinese: Medellín
- Afrikaans: Medellin
- Afrikaans: Medellín
- Albanian: Medellín
- Arabic: Medellín
- Arabic: ميديلين
- Armenian: Մեդելյին
- Asturian; Bable: Medellín
- Avaric: Medellín
- Aymara: Medellín
- Azerbaijani: Medelin
- Azerbaijani: Medellin
- Basque: Medellin
- Basque: Medellín
- Bavarian: Medellín
- Belarusian: Медэльін
- Belarusian: Мэдэльін
- Bengali: মেদেয়িন
- Bengali: মেদেলিন
- Bosnian: Medellín
- Breton: Medellín
- Bulgarian: Меделин
- Catalan: Medellín
- Cebuano: Medellín
- Chechen: Медельин
- Chinese: 麥德林
- Chinese: 麥德連
- Chinese: 麦德林
- Cornish: Medellín
- Corsican: Medellín
- Crimean Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Medellín
- Crimean Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Medelyin
- Croatian: Medellin
- Croatian: Medellín
- Czech: Medellin
- Czech: Medellín
- Danish: Medellin
- Danish: Medellín
- Dimli: Medellín
- Dutch: Medellín
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: ميديللين
- English, Old (ca.450-1100): Medellín
- English: City of Eternal Spring
- English: Medellin
- Esperanto: Medelino
- Esperanto: Medeljino
- Esperanto: Medellin
- Esperanto: Medellín
- Esperanto: Medeĝino
- Esperanto: Medeĵino
- Estonian: Medellín
- Fijian: Medellín
- Finnish: Medellin
- Finnish: Medellín
- Franco-Provençal: Medellín
- French: Medellin
- French: Medellín
- Frisian: Medellín
- Friulian: Medellín
- Gaelic (Scots): Medellín
- Gagauz: Medellín
- Gallegan: Medellín
- Georgian: მედელინი
- German: Medellin
- German: Medellín
- Greek: Μεδεγίν
- Guarani: Medellín
- Gujarati: મેડેલિન
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: Medellín
- Hakka Chinese: Medellín
- Hausa: Medellín
- Hebrew: מדז'ין
- Hebrew: מדיין
- Hindi: मेडेलिन
- Hungarian: Medellin
- Hungarian: Medellín
- Icelandic: Medellin
- Icelandic: Medellín
- Ido: Medellín
- Iloko: Medellin
- Iloko: Medellín
- Indonesian: Medellin
- Indonesian: Medellín
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Medellín
- Interlingue: Medellín
- Inupiaq: Medellín
- Irish: Medellín
- Italian: Medellín
- Japanese: メデジン
- Japanese: メデリン
- Kannada: ಮೆಡೆಲಿನ್
- Khmer: ទីក្រុងមេឌេយីណ
- Kikuyu: Medellín
- Kinyarwanda: Medellín
- Kirghiz: Медельин
- Korean: 매데인
- Korean: 메데인
- Korean: 메데진
- Korean: 메델린
- Kurdish: Medellín
- Kölsch: Medellín
- Ladino: Medellín
- Ladino: Medeyin
- Lao: Medellín
- Latin: Medellium
- Latvian: Medeljina
- Latvian: Medellín
- Letzeburgesch: Medellín
- Ligurian: Medellín
- Lithuanian: Medelinas
- Lithuanian: Medeljinas
- Lithuanian: Medellin
- Macedonian: Меделјин
- Malay (generic): Medellín
- Marathi: मेदेयिन
- Marathi: मेदेयीन
- Minangkabau: Medellín
- Mirandese: Medellín
- Mongolian: Меделин
- Mongolian: Медельин
- Moroccan Spoken Arabic: ميديين
- Northern Frisian: Medellín (Steed)
- Northern Frisian: Medellín
- Norwegian: Medellín
- Norwegian Bokmål: Medellin
- Norwegian Bokmål: Medellín
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Medellín
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Medellín
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Медельин
- Panjabi: ਮੇਦੇਯੀਨ
- Papiamento: Medellín
- Persian: مدئین
- Persian: مدلین
- Picard: Medellín
- Piemontese: Medellìn
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Medellín
- Polish: Medellin
- Polish: Medellín
- Portuguese: Medelhim
- Portuguese: Medelim
- Portuguese: Medelin
- Portuguese: Medeline
- Portuguese: Medellin
- Portuguese: Medellín
- Quechua: Medellín
- Quechua: Midiyin
- Romanian: Medellin
- Romanian: Medellín
- Russian: Medellín
- Russian: Медельин
- Scots: Medellin
- Scots: Medellín
- Serbian: Medellín
- Serbian: Меделин
- Serbian: Медељин
- Serbo-Croatian: Medellín
- Sinhalese: මෙඩිලින්
- Slovak: Medellín
- Slovenian: Medellín
- Sorbian, Lower: Medellin
- Spanish: Capital paisa
- Spanish: Ciudad de la Eterna Primavera
- Spanish: La Tacita de Plata
- Spanish: Medellin
- Spanish: Medellín
- Sranan: Medellín
- Sundanese: Medellin
- Sundanese: Medellín
- Swedish: Medellin
- Swedish: Medellín
- Tagalog: Medellín
- Tamil: மெதெயின்
- Tamil: மெதெலின்
- Tatar: Медельин
- Telugu: మెడెలిన్
- Thai: Medellín
- Thai: เมเดยิง
- Thai: เมเดยิน
- Thai: เมเดยีน
- Turkish: Medellin
- Turkish: Medellín
- Turkmen: Medellín
- Ukrainian: Медельїн
- Urdu: میڈیئن
- Uzbek: Medelin
- Venetian: Medellín
- Veps: Medel'jin
- Vietnamese: Medellín
- Vlaams: Medellín
- Volapük: Medellín
- Waray (Philippines): Medellín
- Welsh: Medellín
- Western Panjabi: میڈیلن
- Wu Chinese: 麦德林
- Yoruba: Medellín
- Yue Chinese: 麥德連
- Zeeuws: Medellín
- Zhuang: Medellín
- Medlin
Other Places Named Medellín
- MedellínAntioquia, Colombia
- MedellinLocality in Cebu Province, Central Visayas
- Medellín MunicipalityVillage in Veracruz, Mexico
- MedellinTown in Cebu Province, Central Visayas
- MedellinVillage in Extremadura, Spain
- MedellínLocality in Veracruz, Mexico
- MedellínLocality in Extremadura, Spain
- MedellínVillage in Argentina
In the Area
Localities
- Calle NuevaNeighborhood
- GuayaquilNeighborhood
- ColónNeighborhood
- Corazón de JesúsNeighborhood
Landmarks
- Plazoleta de la alpujarra
- Monumento a la RazaWork of art
- Gobernación de AntioquiaTown hall
- PasaportesGovernment office
Popular Destinations in Antioquia
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