Melilla
Melilla is a charming Spanish exclave in North Africa, 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 Morocco.
- Type: City with 87,100 residents
- Description: Spanish autonomous city in northwestern Africa
- Also known as: “ciutat autònoma de Melilla”, “ES-ML”, “M’lila”, “Millela”, “Rusaddir”, “Rusadir”, “Russadir”, “Ryssadirum”, “المدينة المستقلة لمليلية”, “مليلية المغربية المحتلة”, “مليليه”, “মেলিল্যা”, “மேலுள்ள”, and “루사디르”
- Postal codes: 52001-52006, 52070, 52071, and 52080
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hernandez Park and Estadio Municipal Álvarez Claro.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beni Ansar and Farkhana.
Beni Ansar
Town
Melilla
- Categories: autonomous city of Spain, municipality of Spain, exclave, port city, disputed territory, border city, and locality
- Location: Spanish North Africa, North Africa, Africa
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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
UN/LOCODE
ES MLN
Open location code
8C7V73R5+QP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “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”
- Betawi: “Mélila”
- Bosnian: “Melila”
- Bosnian: “Melilla”
- Breton: “Melilla”
- Buginese: “ᨆᨒᨗᨒ”
- Bulgarian: “Мелила”
- Bulgarian: “Мелиля”
- Catalan: “Melilla”
- Cebuano: “Melilla”
- Central Bikol: “Melilla”
- Central Kurdish: “مێلیلا”
- 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: “ميلييا”
- 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: “멜리야”
- Kurdish: “Melilla”
- Ladin: “Melilla”
- Ladino: “Meliya”
- Latin: “Melila”
- Latin: “Melilla”
- Latvian: “Melilja”
- 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”
- Neapolitan: “Melilla”
- 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”
- 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”
- Tatar: “Мелилья”
- Telugu: “మెలిల్లా”
- Thai: “เมลียา”
- 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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