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Strait of Gibraltar

The Strait of Gibraltar, also known as the Straits of Gibraltar, is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates from .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Isla de Las Palomas and Lighthouse Tarifa.

Islet
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is an island opposite the town of at the southern end of the at the southernmost point of the and continental Europe. The island has been connected to the mainland by causeway since 1808.

Lighthouse
Photo: Benjamín Núñez González, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Marina
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The Port of Tarifa is a commercial harbor for fishing and passenger boats, located in the Andalusian town of . It is managed by the Port Authority of and is the closest European port to North Africa and on the main shipping route to in Morocco and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Punta de Tarifa.

Locality
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is the southernmost point of the and Continental Europe. It is located in the and the autonomous community of on the Atlantic end of the Straits of Gibraltar.

Strait of Gibraltar

Latitude
35.9594° or 35° 57′ 34″ north
Longitude
-5.5887° or 5° 35′ 19″ west
Open location code
8C7PXC56+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13420703362
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q36124
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Strait of Gibraltar” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Selat Gibraltar”
  • Afrikaans: “Straat van Gibraltar”
  • Albanian: “Ngushtica e Gjibraltarit”
  • Amharic: “የጂብራልታር ወሽመጥ”
  • Arabic: “بحر الزقاق”
  • Arabic: “بحر الزُّقاق”
  • Arabic: “درب الزقاق”
  • Arabic: “مضيق جبل جبل”
  • Arabic: “مضيق جبل طارق”
  • Aragonese: “Estreito de Chibraltar”
  • Armenian: “Ջիբրալթարի նեղուց”
  • Asturian: “Estrechu de Xibraltar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cəbəllütariq boğazı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cəbəllüttariq boğazı”
  • Bashkir: “Гибралтар боғаҙы”
  • Basque: “Gibraltarko itsasarte”
  • Basque: “Gibraltarko itsasartea”
  • Belarusian: “Гібралтарскі праліў”
  • Belarusian: “Гібральтарская пратока”
  • Belarusian: “Праліў Гібралтар”
  • Bengali: “জিব্রাল্টার প্রণালি”
  • Bengali: “জিব্রাল্টার প্রণালী”
  • Bosnian: “Gibraltarska vrata”
  • Bosnian: “Gibraltarski moreuz”
  • Bosnian: “Gibraltarski prolaz”
  • Breton: “Strizh-mor Gibraltar”
  • Breton: “Strizh-mor Jibraltar”
  • Bulgarian: “Гибралтарски пролив”
  • Bulgarian: “Гибралтарски проток”
  • Burmese: “ဂျီဘရော်လ်တာ ရေလက်ကြား”
  • Catalan: “estret de Gibraltar”
  • Catalan: “Estret de Gibraltar”
  • Catalan: “Gaditanum Fretum”
  • Cebuano: “Kipot sa Gibraltar”
  • Cebuano: “Kipot sa Gyibraltar”
  • Central Bikol: “Itiot kan Gibraltar”
  • Central Kurdish: “گەرووی جەبەل تاریق”
  • Chechen: “Гибралтаран хидоькъе”
  • Chinese: “直布罗陀海峡”
  • Chinese: “直布羅陀海峽”
  • Corsican: “Strittone di Gibilterra”
  • Croatian: “Gibraltarska vrata”
  • Croatian: “Gibraltarski tjesnac”
  • Czech: “Gibraltarská úžina”
  • Czech: “Gibraltarský průliv”
  • Czech: “Herkulovy sloupy”
  • Danish: “Gibraltar stræde”
  • Danish: “Gibraltar-strædet”
  • Danish: “Gibraltarstrædet”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Gibraltar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مضيق جبل طارق”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝibraltara Markolo”
  • Estonian: “Gibraltari väin”
  • Extremaduran: “Estrechu de Gibraltal”
  • Extremaduran: “Estrechu de Gibraltar”
  • Extremaduran: “Estrechu de Gibrartal”
  • Extremaduran: “Estrechu e Gibraltar”
  • Extremaduran: “Estrechu Gibraltal”
  • Extremaduran: “Estrechu Gibraltar”
  • Extremaduran: “Estrechu Gibrartal”
  • Finnish: “Gibraltarin salmi”
  • Finnish: “Gibraltarinsalmi”
  • French: “Colonnes d’Héraclès”
  • French: “Detroit de Gibraltar”
  • French: “détroit de Gibraltar”
  • French: “Détroit de Gibraltar”
  • Galician: “Estreito de Xibraltar”
  • Georgian: “გიბრალტარის სრუტე”
  • German: “Gibraltarstrasse”
  • German: “Gibraltarstraße”
  • German: “Meerenge von Gibraltar”
  • German: “Strasse von Gibraltar”
  • German: “Straße von Gibraltar”
  • Greek: “Πορθμός του Γιβραλτάρ”
  • Greek: “Στενό του Γιβραλτάρ”
  • Guarani: “Ypo’i Hivyraytã”
  • Hebrew: “מצר גיברלטר”
  • Hindi: “जिब्राल्टर जलडमरूमध्य”
  • Hindi: “जिब्राल्टर जलसंधि”
  • Hindi: “जिब्राल्टर जलसन्धि”
  • Hungarian: “Gibraltári-szoros”
  • Icelandic: “Gíbraltarsund”
  • Ido: “Gibraltar-stretajo”
  • Indonesian: “Selat Gibraltar”
  • Irish: “Caolas Ghiobráltar”
  • Italian: “stretto di Gibilterra”
  • Italian: “Stretto di Gibilterra”
  • Japanese: “ジブラルタル海峡”
  • Japanese: “ジベルテッラ海峡”
  • Javanese: “Selat Gibraltar”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гибралтар ачыкъ богъаз”
  • Kirghiz: “Гибралтар кысыгы”
  • Korean: “지브랄타르해협”
  • Korean: “지브롤터 해협”
  • Kurdish: “Tengava Cîbraltar”
  • Kurdish: “Tengava Cîbraltarê”
  • Kurdish: “Tengava Gibraltar”
  • Latin: “Fretum Gaditanum”
  • Latin: “Fretum Hispanicum”
  • Latvian: “Gibraltāra jūras šaurums”
  • Latvian: “Gibraltāra šaurums”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Streta Jibraltar”
  • Lithuanian: “Gibraltaro sąsiauris”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Gibraltarski pśelew”
  • Luxembourgish: “Strooss vu Gibraltar”
  • Macedonian: “Гибралтарски Проток”
  • Malagasy: “Andilan-dranomasin’ i Gibraltar”
  • Malagasy: “Andilan-dranomasin’i Jibraltara”
  • Malay: “Selat Gibraltar”
  • Malayalam: “Strait of Gibraltar”
  • Malayalam: “ജിബ്രാൾട്ടർ കടലിടുക്ക്”
  • Marathi: “जिब्राल्टरची सामुद्रधुनी”
  • Mazanderani: “جبل طارق تنگه”
  • Mingrelian: “გიბრალტარიშ საროტი”
  • Mongolian: “Гибралтарын хоолой”
  • Nepali: “जिब्राल्टर जलसन्धि”
  • Newari: “जिब्राल्टर जलसन्धि”
  • Northern Frisian: “Struat faan Gibraltaar”
  • Northern Luri: “تئن جبل طارق”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gibraltar-stredet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gibraltarstredet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gibraltarsundet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bab el-Zakat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Estrecho de Gibraltar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gibraltarstredet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gibraltarsundet”
  • Norwegian: “Gibraltarstredet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Colomnas d’Ercules”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estrech de Gibartar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estreit de Gibartar”
  • Ossetian: “Гибралтары донкъубал”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਿਬਰਾਲਟਰ ਪਣਜੋੜ”
  • Persian: “تنگه جبل الطارق”
  • Persian: “تنگه جبل‌الطارق”
  • Persian: “جبل الطارق”
  • Persian: “جبل‌الطارق”
  • Polish: “Cieśnina Gibraltarska”
  • Portuguese: “Estreito de Gibraltar”
  • Pushto: “د جبل الطارق تنګئ”
  • Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Gibraltar”
  • Romanian: “Strîmtoarea Gibraltar”
  • Russian: “Гибралтар”
  • Russian: “Гибралтарский пролив”
  • Saraiki: “آبنائے جبل الطارق”
  • Scots: “Strait o Gibraltar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Caolas Ghiobraltair”
  • Serbian: “Гибралтар(мореуз)”
  • Serbian: “Гибралтар”
  • Serbian: “Гибралтарски мореуз”
  • Serbian: “Гибралтарски пролаз”
  • Serbian: “Гибралтарски теснац”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gibraltarski prolaz”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gibraltarski tjesnac”
  • Sicilian: “Strittu di Gibbilterra”
  • Sicilian: “Strittu di Gibbirterra”
  • Slovak: “Gibraltarský prieliv”
  • Slovak: “Gibraltársky prieliv”
  • Slovenian: “Gibraltarska ožina”
  • Slovenian: “Gibraltarska vrata”
  • Slovenian: “Gibraltarski preliv”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جبل‌الطارق بوغازی”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de Gibraltar”
  • Swahili: “Mlango wa bahari wa Gibraltar”
  • Swahili: “Mlango wa Gibraltar”
  • Swedish: “Gibraltar sund”
  • Swedish: “Gibraltar-Sund”
  • Swedish: “Gibraltarsund”
  • Swedish: “Gibraltarsundet”
  • Swedish: “Herakles Stoder”
  • Swedish: “Herkules stoder”
  • Tagalog: “Kipot ng Gibraltar”
  • Tajik: “Гулӯгоҳи Гибралтар”
  • Tajik: “Гулӯгоҳи Ҷабалутториқ”
  • Tamil: “ஜிப்ரால்ட்டர் நீரிணை”
  • Tatar: “Гибралтар бугазы”
  • Telugu: “జిబ్రాల్టర్ జలసంధి”
  • Thai: “Straits of Gibraltar”
  • Thai: “ช่องแคบยิบรอลตา”
  • Thai: “ช่องแคบยิบรอลตาร์”
  • Turkish: “Cebelitarık Boğazı”
  • Turkish: “Septe Boğazı”
  • Turkish: “Strait of Gibraltar”
  • Ukrainian: “Гібралтарська протока”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґібралтарська протока”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Estrecho de Gibraltar”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Gibraltarski přeliw”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Strait of Gibraltar”
  • Urdu: “آبنائے جبرالٹر”
  • Urdu: “آبنائے جبل الطارق”
  • Uzbek: “Gibraltar boʻgʻozi”
  • Venetian: “Streto de Gibiltera”
  • Vietnamese: “Eo biển Gi bran ta”
  • Vietnamese: “Eo biển Gi-bran-ta”
  • Vietnamese: “Eo biển Gibraltar”
  • Vietnamese: “Eo biển Gibranta”
  • Walloon: “Sitroet d‘ Djibraltar”
  • Walloon: “Stroet d‘ Djibraltar”
  • Walloon: “Stroeteure di Djibraltar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Estrecho han Gibraltar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Suláng han Gibraltar”
  • Welsh: “Culfor Gibraltar”
  • Western Armenian: “Ճիպրալթար Նեղուց”
  • Western Armenian: “Ճիպրալթարի Նեղուց”
  • Western Frisian: “Strjitte fan Gibraltar”
  • Western Panjabi: “آبنائے جبرالٹر”
  • Western Panjabi: “آبنائے جبل الطارق”
  • Wu Chinese: “直布罗陀海峡”
  • Yiddish: “דורכגאס פון גיבראלטאר”
  • Yue Chinese: “直布羅陀海峽”

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