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
Nutibara Sculpture Park
Park
Sculpture Park is a sculpture garden at the foot of Nutibara Hill in Medellín, Colombia and the first of its kind in the country.
Botanical Garden of Medellín
Garden
The Joaquin Antonio Uribe Botanical Garden of Medellín, more simply known as the Botanical Garden of Medellín, is a 14-hectare botanical garden in Medellín, Colombia. Photo: jlascar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Localities in the Area
El Poblado
Suburb
El Poblado is the 14th commune in the metropolitan area of the city of Medellín, Colombia. Photo: willygil, CC BY 2.0.
Medellín
- Type: City
- Description: city in Colombia, capital of Colombian department Antioquia
- Categories: municipality of Colombia, big city, city with millions of inhabitants and second largest city
- Location: Antioquia, Andino, Colombia, South America
Latitude 6.2443° or 6° 14' 39.6" north | Longitude -75.5736° or 75° 34' 24.8" west |
Population 2,440,000 | IATA airport code MDE |
United Nations Location Code CO MDE | Elevation 1405 metres (4610 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 344799743 | GeoNames ID 3674962 |
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Medellín
- Afrikaans: Medellin
- Afrikaans: Medellín
- Albanian: Medellín
- Arabic: Medellín
- Arabic: ميديلين
- Armenian: Մեդելյին
- Arpitan: Medellín
- Asturian: 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 (kapital sa departamento)
- 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
- Danish: Medellin
- Danish: Medellín
- Dimli (individual language): Medellín
- Dutch: Medellín
- Egyptian Arabic: ميديللين
- English: City of Eternal Spring
- English: Medellin (Colombia)
- English: Medellin
- Esperanto: Medelino
- Esperanto: Medeljino
- Esperanto: Medellin
- Esperanto: Medellín
- Esperanto: Medeĝino
- Esperanto: Medeĵino
- Fijian: Medellín
- Finnish: Medellin
- Finnish: Medellín
- 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 (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
- Ligurian: Medellín
- Lithuanian: Medelinas
- Lithuanian: Medeljinas
- Lithuanian: Medellin
- Lower Sorbian: Medellin
- Luxembourgish: Medellín
- Macedonian: Меделјин
- Malay: Medellín
- Marathi: मेदेयिन
- Marathi: मेदेयीन
- Minangkabau: Medellín
- Mirandese: Medellín
- Mongolian: Медельин
- Northern Frisian: Medellín (Steed)
- Northern Frisian: Medellín
- Norwegian: Medellín
- Norwegian Bokmål: Medellin
- Norwegian Bokmål: Medellín
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Medellín
- Occitan (post 1500): Medellín
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Medellín
- Ossetian: Медельин
- Panjabi: ਮੇਦੇਯੀਨ
- Papiamento: Medellín
- Persian: مدئین
- Persian: مدلین
- Picard: Medellín
- 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
- Scottish Gaelic: Medellín
- Serbian: Medellín
- Serbian: Меделин
- Serbian: Медељин
- Serbo-Croatian: Medellín
- Silesian: Medellín
- Sinhala: මෙඩිලින්
- Slovak: Medellín
- Slovenian: Medellín
- Spanish: Capital paisa
- Spanish: Ciudad de la Eterna Primavera
- Spanish: La Tacita de Plata
- Spanish: Medellin
- Spanish: 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
- Veps: Medel'jin
- 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
- Medlin
Other Places Named Medellín
In the Area
Localities
- Plaza MayorArea
- La Alpujarra
- Calle NuevaNeighborhood
- GuayaquilNeighborhood
- ColónNeighborhood
- Triste
Landmarks
- Plazoleta de la alpujarraPedestrian zone
- Monumento a la RazaWork of art
- Gobernación de AntioquiaTown hall
- PasaportesGovernment office
- Alcaldía de MedellínTown hall
- Asamblea Departamental de AntiquiaPublic building
Popular Destinations in Antioquia
Escape to a Random Place
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