Palencia
Palencia is a city in Castile and León in northern Spain, with a population of 76,300 in 2023. It was industrial from about 1840 to 1960 and its centre is modern, but with several interesting old buildings and plazas.
- Type: City with 75,200 residents
- Description: municipality and capital city of the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain
- Also known as: “Ciudad de Palencia”
- Postal codes: 34001-34006, 34070, 34071, and 34080
Places of Interest
Highlights: Palencia Cathedral and Palencia Railway Station.
Palencia Cathedral
Museum
Palencia Railway Station
Railway station
Palencia railway station serves the Spanish city of Palencia, Castile and León.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Villalobón.
Villalobón
Village
Palencia
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Palencia, Castile and León, Central Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.0109° or 42° 0′ 39″ north
Longitude
-4.5329° or 4° 31′ 58″ west
Population
75,200
Elevation
739 metres (2,425 feet)
IATA airport code
PCI
UN/LOCODE
ES PAC
Open location code
8CJQ2F68+9V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Palencia” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Palencia”
- Arabic: “بالنثيا”
- Aragonese: “Palencia”
- Armenian: “Պալենսիա”
- Asturian: “Palencia”
- Azerbaijani: “Palencia”
- Basque: “Palentzia”
- Belarusian: “Паленсія”
- Bengali: “প্যালেনসিয়া”
- Breton: “Palencia”
- Bulgarian: “Паленсия”
- Catalan: “Palència”
- Cebuano: “Palencia”
- Chechen: “Паленсия”
- Chinese: “帕伦西亚”
- Chinese: “帕倫西亞”
- Czech: “Palencia”
- Dagbani: “Palencia”
- Danish: “Palencia”
- Dutch: “Palencia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بالنثيا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پالينثيا”
- Esperanto: “Palencio”
- Extremaduran: “Palencia”
- Finnish: “Palencia”
- French: “Palencia”
- Galician: “Palencia”
- Georgian: “პალენსია”
- German: “Palencia”
- Greek: “Παλένθια”
- Gujarati: “પાલેનસિયા”
- Hebrew: “פלנסיה”
- Hindi: “पलेनसिया”
- Hungarian: “Palencia”
- Icelandic: “Palencia”
- Indonesian: “Palencia”
- Interlingue: “Liste del villagies locata in Palencia”
- Interlingue: “Palencia”
- Irish: “Palencia”
- Italian: “Palencia”
- Japanese: “パレンシア”
- Javanese: “Palencia”
- Kannada: “ಪಾಲೆನ್ಸಿಯಾ”
- Korean: “팔렌시아”
- Ladin: “Palencia”
- Ladino: “Palensia”
- Latin: “Pallantia”
- Latvian: “Palensija”
- Lithuanian: “Palensija”
- Lombard: “Palencia”
- Luxembourgish: “Palencia”
- Malagasy: “Palencia”
- Malay: “Palencia”
- Marathi: “पलेनसिया”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palencia”
- Northern Frisian: “Palencia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palencia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palencia”
- Norwegian: “Palencia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Paléncia”
- Ossetian: “Паленси”
- Persian: “پالنسیا”
- Polish: “Palencia”
- Portuguese: “Palência”
- Romanian: “Palencia”
- Russian: “Паленсия”
- Scots: “Palencia”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Palencia”
- Serbian: “Паленсија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Palencia”
- Sinhala: “පැලෙන්ෂියා”
- Slovak: “Palencia”
- Slovenian: “Palencia”
- South Azerbaijani: “پالنسیا”
- Spanish: “Palencia”
- Swahili: “Palencia”
- Swedish: “Palencia”
- Tamil: “பலென்சியா”
- Tatar: “Паленсия”
- Telugu: “పాలెన్సియా”
- Thai: “ปาเลนเซีย”
- Turkish: “Palencia”
- Ukrainian: “Паленсія”
- Urdu: “پالینسیا”
- Uzbek: “Palencia”
- Venetian: “Palencia”
- Vietnamese: “Palencia, Tây Ban Nha”
- Vietnamese: “Palencia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Palencia”
- Welsh: “Palencia”
- Wu Chinese: “帕伦西亚”
- Yue Chinese: “帕倫西亞”
- “Palencia”
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