Melilla

Melilla is a charming Spanish exclave in , with a small surface area of just 14 km² and a population of around 85,000 inhabitants, 130 km from the Spanish mainland, in the heart of the Rif region, bordered to the east by the Alboran Sea and to the south by .
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  • Type: City with 87,100 residents
  • Description: Spanish autonomous city in northwestern Africa
  • Also known as: “ES-ML”, “M’lila”, “Millela”, “Rusadir”, and “Russadir”
  • Postal codes: 52001-52006, 52070, 52071, and 52080
Photo: Víctor Fernández Salinas, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hernandez Park and Estadio Municipal Álvarez Claro.

Park
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Hernández Park is a historic garden located in the center of the autonomous city of Melilla, , and is situated in the Modernist Expansion District on Plaza de España.

Stadium
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The Estadio Álvarez Claro is a stadium in Melilla, . It is currently used for football matches and it is the home venue of UD Melilla. It was inaugurated on 29 September 1945.

River
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The is a river which flows in northeast to reach the Mediterranean Sea at the harbour of the exclave of Melilla.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beni Ansar and Farkhana.

Town
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is a town in , , , located 12 km north of the city of . It is bordered on the north by the Spanish city of Melilla.

Town
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is a town in , , . According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 50,508 people.

Neighborhood
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is one of the barrios of the city of Melilla, a exclave on the north coast of Africa. is located in the central north of the city, 500 metres from the Mediterranean coast and one kilometre northwest of Melilla la Vieja, the old walled city.

Melilla

Latitude
35.2919° or 35° 17′ 31″ north
Longitude
-2.9407° or 2° 56′ 27″ west
Population
87,100
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
MLN
United Nations Location Code
ES MLN
Open location code
8C7V73R5+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 289031151
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2513947
Wiki­data ID
Q5831
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Melilla” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Melilla”
  • Albanian: “Melila”
  • Albanian: “Melilla”
  • Amharic: “ሜሊያ”
  • Arabic: “المدينة المستقلة لمليلية”
  • Arabic: “مليلية المغربية المحتلة”
  • Arabic: “مليلية”
  • Aragonese: “Melilla”
  • Armenian: “Մելիլյա”
  • Arpitan: “Melilya”
  • Assamese: “মেলিলা”
  • Asturian: “Melilla”
  • Avaric: “Мелилла”
  • Azerbaijani: “Melilya”
  • Balinese: “Melilla”
  • Basque: “Melilla”
  • Bavarian: “Melilla”
  • Belarusian: “Мелілья”
  • Belarusian: “Мэлільля”
  • Bengali: “মেলিইয়া”
  • Bengali: “মেলিলা”
  • Bengali: “মেলিল্যা”
  • Betawi: “Mélila”
  • Bosnian: “Melila”
  • Bosnian: “Melilla”
  • Breton: “Melilla”
  • Buginese: “ᨆᨒᨗᨒ”
  • Bulgarian: “Мелила”
  • Bulgarian: “Мелиля”
  • Catalan: “ciutat autònoma de Melilla”
  • Catalan: “Melilla”
  • Cebuano: “Melilla”
  • Central Bikol: “Melilla”
  • Central Kurdish: “مێلیلا”
  • Chinese: “Melilla”
  • Chinese: “梅利利亚”
  • Chinese: “梅利利亞”
  • Chinese: “麥里亞”
  • Cornish: “Melilla”
  • Croatian: “Melilla”
  • Czech: “Melilla”
  • Danish: “Melilla”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Melilla”
  • Dutch: “Melilla”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مليليه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميلييا”
  • Esperanto: “Melilla”
  • Esperanto: “Melilo”
  • Estonian: “Melilla”
  • Extremaduran: “Melilla”
  • Fijian: “Melilla”
  • Finnish: “Melilla”
  • French: “Melilla”
  • Gagauz: “Melilla”
  • Galician: “Melilla”
  • Georgian: “მელილია”
  • German: “Melilla”
  • Greek: “Μελίγια”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Melilla”
  • Gujarati: “મેલિલા”
  • Haitian: “Melilla”
  • Hebrew: “מלייה”
  • Hindi: “मेलिया”
  • Hindi: “मेलिला”
  • Hungarian: “Melilla”
  • Icelandic: “Melilla”
  • Ido: “Melilla”
  • Indonesian: “Melilla”
  • Interlingua: “Melilla”
  • Irish: “Melilla”
  • Italian: “Melilla”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Meliya”
  • Japanese: “メリリャ”
  • Javanese: “Melilla”
  • Kabyle: “Mlilt”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಲಿಲ್ಲಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Мелилья”
  • Kirghiz: “Мелилья”
  • Korean: “루사디르”
  • Korean: “멜리야”
  • Kurdish: “Melilla”
  • Ladin: “Melilla”
  • Ladino: “Meliya”
  • Latin: “Melila”
  • Latin: “Melilla”
  • Latin: “Rusaddir”
  • Latin: “Ryssadirum”
  • Latvian: “Melilja”
  • Latvian: “Melilla”
  • Ligurian: “Melilla”
  • Limburgan: “Melilla”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Melilla”
  • Lithuanian: “Melilja”
  • Lombard: “Melilla”
  • Luxembourgish: “Melilla”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Melilla”
  • Macedonian: “Мелиља”
  • Malagasy: “Melilla”
  • Malay: “Melilla”
  • Malayalam: “മെലില്ല”
  • Maltese: “Melilla”
  • Marathi: “मेलिया”
  • Mazanderani: “ملیله”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Melilla”
  • Mingrelian: “მელილია”
  • Mirandese: “Melilha”
  • Moksha: “Мэлилья”
  • Mongolian: “Мелилья”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مليلية”
  • Northern Frisian: “Melilla”
  • Northern Luri: “مئلیلا”
  • Northern Sami: “Melilla”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melilla”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melilla”
  • Norwegian: “Melilla”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Melilla”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mrič”
  • Ossetian: “Мелилья”
  • Pampanga: “Melilla”
  • Papiamento: “Melilla”
  • Pedi: “Melilla”
  • Persian: “ملیلیه”
  • Picard: “Melilla”
  • Piemontese: “Melilla”
  • Polish: “Melilla”
  • Portuguese: “Melilha”
  • Portuguese: “Melilla”
  • Pushto: “ملیلیه”
  • Quechua: “Melilla”
  • Romanian: “Melilla”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мелилья”
  • Russian: “Мелилья”
  • Sardinian: “Melilla”
  • Scots: “Melilla”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Melilla”
  • Serbian: “Корисник:Славен Косановић/Мелиља”
  • Serbian: “Мелиља”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Melilla”
  • Shan: “မႄႇလီႇလႃႇ”
  • Sicilian: “Melilla”
  • Silesian: “Melilla”
  • Sinhala: “මෙලිලා”
  • Sinhala: “මෙලිල්ලා”
  • Slovak: “Melilla”
  • Slovenian: “Melilla”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Melilla”
  • Spanish: “Melilla”
  • Spanish: “Rusaddir”
  • Spanish: “Rusadir”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⵍⵉⵍⵜ”
  • Sundanese: “Mélilya”
  • Swahili: “Melilla”
  • Swedish: “Melilla”
  • Swiss German: “Melilla”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Melilla”
  • Tagalog: “Melilla”
  • Tajik: “Мелила”
  • Talysh: “Melilla”
  • Tamil: “மெலில்லா”
  • Tamil: “மேலுள்ள”
  • Tatar: “Мелилья”
  • Telugu: “మెలిల్లా”
  • Thai: “เมลียา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Melilla”
  • Turkish: “Melilla”
  • Ukrainian: “Мелілья”
  • Urdu: “ملیلہ”
  • Urdu: “ملیلیہ”
  • Venetian: “Melilla”
  • Vietnamese: “Melilla”
  • Volapük: “Melilla”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melilla”
  • Welsh: “Melilla”
  • Western Frisian: “Melilla”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅利利亚”
  • Yiddish: “מעליללא”
  • Yoruba: “Melilla”
  • Yue Chinese: “梅利利亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Melilla”
  • Zulu: “IMelilla”
  • Zulu: “Melilla”
  • “Melilla”

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