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Antioquia

Medellín

Medellín is the second largest city in . It has 2.62 million residents and is the capital of the department of . It's set in a valley running south to north and just a one-hour flight from .
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  • Type: City with 2,440,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Antioquia, Colombia
  • Also known as: “City ​​of Eternal Spring”, “Medellin”, “Medellín, Special District of Science, Technology and Innovation”, “Municipality of Medellín”, “Special District of Science, Technology and Innovation of Medellín”, and “Town of Our Lady of Candelaria of Medellín”
Photo: XalD, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Medellín Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Cathedral of Medellín.

Museum
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The Museum of Modern Art of Medellín is a museum of modern art in the city of Medellín. It was founded in 1978. Many artworks by Débora Arango, who was born in Medellín, are part of the museum's collection.

Church
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The , officially the Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Virgin Mary under the title of the Immaculate Conception.

Museum
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The is an art museum in Medellín, . It houses a large collection of works by Medellín native Fernando Botero and Pedro Nel Gómez.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El Poblado and Robledo.

Suburb
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is the 14th commune in the metropolitan area of the city of Medellín, . According to a 2005 census the population was 94,704, distributed among its land area of 23 km2, and by the year 2015, it had a population of 128,839.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Medellín

Latitude
6.2443° or 6° 14′ 40″ north
Longitude
-75.5736° or 75° 34′ 25″ west
Population
2,440,000
Elevation
1,405 metres (4,610 feet)
IATA airport code
MDE
United Nations Location Code
CO MDE
Open location code
67R66CVG+PH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 344799743
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3674962
Wiki­data ID
Q48278
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Medellín” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Medellín”
  • Afrikaans: “Medellin”
  • Afrikaans: “Medellín”
  • Albanian: “Medellín”
  • Arabic: “ميديلين”
  • Armenian: “Մեդելյին”
  • Arpitan: “Medellín”
  • Asturian: “Medellín (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “Medellín”
  • Aymara: “Medellín”
  • Azerbaijani: “Medelin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Medellin”
  • Balinese: “Medellín”
  • Basque: “Medellin”
  • Basque: “Medellín”
  • Bavarian: “Medellín”
  • Belarusian: “Медэін”
  • Belarusian: “Медэлін”
  • Belarusian: “Медэльін”
  • Bengali: “মেডেলিন”
  • 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 Tatar: “Medellín”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Medelyin”
  • Croatian: “Medellin”
  • Croatian: “Medellín”
  • Czech: “Medellin”
  • Czech: “Medellín”
  • Czech: “Villa de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Medellín”
  • Danish: “Medellin”
  • Danish: “Medellín”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Medellín”
  • Dutch: “Medellín (Colombia)”
  • Dutch: “Medellin”
  • Dutch: “Medellín”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميديللين”
  • Esperanto: “Medeĝino”
  • Esperanto: “Medeĵino”
  • Esperanto: “Medelino”
  • Esperanto: “Medeljino”
  • Esperanto: “Medellin”
  • Esperanto: “Medellín”
  • Estonian: “Medellín”
  • Fijian: “Medellín”
  • Finnish: “Medellin”
  • Finnish: “Medellín”
  • French: “La ville du printemps éternel”
  • French: “Medellin”
  • French: “Medellín”
  • Friulian: “Medellín”
  • Gagauz: “Medellín”
  • Galician: “Medellín”
  • Georgian: “მედელინი”
  • German: “Medellin”
  • German: “Medellín”
  • Greek: “Μεδεγίν”
  • Guarani: “Medellín”
  • Gujarati: “મેડેલિન”
  • Haitian: “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: “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”
  • Kölsch: “Medellín”
  • Korean: “매데인”
  • Korean: “메데인”
  • Korean: “메데진”
  • Korean: “메델린”
  • Kotava: “Medellín”
  • Kurdish: “Medellín”
  • Ladino: “Medellín”
  • Ladino: “Medeyin”
  • Latin: “Medellium”
  • Latvian: “Medeljina”
  • Latvian: “Medellín”
  • Ligurian: “Medellín”
  • Lithuanian: “Medelinas”
  • Lithuanian: “Medeljinas”
  • Lithuanian: “Medellin”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Medellin”
  • Luxembourgish: “Medellín”
  • Macedonian: “Медељин”
  • Madurese: “Medellín”
  • Malay: “Medellín”
  • Maltese: “Medellin”
  • Maltese: “Medellín”
  • Marathi: “मेदेयिन”
  • Marathi: “मेदेयीन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Medellín”
  • Minangkabau: “Medellín”
  • Mirandese: “Medellín”
  • Moksha: “Мэдэльин”
  • Mongolian: “Меделин”
  • Mongolian: “Медельин”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ميديين”
  • Northern Frisian: “Medellín (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Medellín”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Medellin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Medellín”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Medellín”
  • Norwegian: “Medellín”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Medellín”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Medellín”
  • Ossetian: “Медельин”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੇਦੇਯੀਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Medellín”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Medellín”
  • Persian: “مدئین”
  • Persian: “مدلین”
  • Picard: “Medellín”
  • Piemontese: “Medellìn”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Medellín”
  • Polish: “Medellin”
  • Polish: “Medellín”
  • Portuguese: “A Cidade da Eterna Primavera”
  • 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”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Medellín”
  • Serbian: “Medellín”
  • Serbian: “Меделин”
  • Serbian: “Медељин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Medellín”
  • Silesian: “Medellín”
  • Sinhala: “මෙඩිලින්, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “මෙඩිලින්”
  • Slovak: “Medellín”
  • Slovenian: “Medellín”
  • Spanish: “Capital paisa”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de la Eterna Primavera”
  • Spanish: “Distrito Especial de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de Medellín”
  • Spanish: “La Tacita de Plata”
  • Spanish: “Medellín, Distrito Especial de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación”
  • Spanish: “Medellin”
  • Spanish: “Medellín”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Medellín”
  • Spanish: “Villa de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Medellín”
  • Sranan Tongo: “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: “Đặc khu Khoa học, Công nghệ, Đổi mới Medellín”
  • Vietnamese: “Đô thị Medellín”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu tự quản Medellín”
  • Vietnamese: “Medellín”
  • Vlaams: “Medellín”
  • Volapük: “Medellín”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Medellín”
  • Welsh: “Medellín”
  • Western Frisian: “Medellín”
  • Western Panjabi: “میڈیلن”
  • Wu Chinese: “麦德林”
  • Yoruba: “Medellín”
  • Yue Chinese: “麥德連”
  • Zeeuws: “Medellín”
  • Zhuang: “Medellín”
  • “Medellín”

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