Ponferrada

Ponferrada is a city in , with a population of almost 64,000 in 2021. It's best known for its castle built by the Knights Templar, and as a stopover on the pilgrimage trail to Santiago de Compostela.
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  • Town with 39,100 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 679 metres (2,228 feet)
  • …is also known as “24115”
  • Description: municipality in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ponferrada Castle and Ponferrada Railway Station.
Bolado, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Vivir el tren, CC BY 2.0.
is the railway station of the city of Ponferrada.
Fernando, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Flores del Sil and La Martina.
Estevoaei, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.
Hovallef, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighborhood.
José Antonio Gil Martínez, CC BY 2.0.
is a hamlet.

Ponferrada

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Latitude
42.5454° or 42° 32′ 44″ north
Longitude
-6.5939° or 6° 35′ 38″ west
Open location code
8CJMGCW4+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 163298513
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6358656
Wiki­data ID
Q12164

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Ponferrada” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Ponferrada”
  • Arabic: “بونفيرادا”
  • Aragonese: “Ponferrada”
  • Armenian: “Պոնֆեռադա”
  • Asturian: “Ponferrada”
  • Basque: “Ponferrada”
  • Belarusian: “Панферада”
  • Breton: “Ponferrada”
  • Catalan: “Ponferrada”
  • Cebuano: “Ponferrada”
  • Chechen: “Понферрада”
  • Chinese: “蓬費拉達”
  • Chinese: “蓬费拉达”
  • Croatian: “Ponferrada”
  • Dutch: “Ponferrada”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بونفيرادا”
  • Esperanto: “Ponferado”
  • Finnish: “Ponferrada”
  • Finnish: “Pontferrada”
  • French: “Ponferrada”
  • Galician: “Ponferrada”
  • Georgian: “პონფერადა”
  • German: “Ponferrada”
  • Greek: “Πονφερράδα”
  • Hawaiian: “Ponferrada”
  • Hebrew: “פונפראדה”
  • Hebrew: “פונפרדה”
  • Hindi: “पोनफेरादा”
  • Hungarian: “Ponferrada”
  • Ido: “Ponferrada”
  • Indonesian: “Ponferrada”
  • Interlingua: “Ponferrada”
  • Interlingue: “Ponferrada”
  • Irish: “Ponferrada”
  • Italian: “Ponferrada”
  • Japanese: “ポンフェラーダ”
  • Korean: “폰페라다”
  • Ladin: “Ponferrada”
  • Ladino: “Ponferrada”
  • Latvian: “Ponferrada”
  • Lithuanian: “Ponferada”
  • Lithuanian: “Ponferadas”
  • Lombard: “Ponferrada”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ponferrada”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ponferrada”
  • Macedonian: “Понферада”
  • Malagasy: “Ponferrada”
  • Malay: “Ponferrada”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ponferrada”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ponferrada”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ponferrada”
  • Norwegian: “Ponferrada”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ponferrada”
  • Persian: “پومفرادا”
  • Polish: “Ponferrada”
  • Portuguese: “Ponferrada”
  • Romanian: “Ponferrada”
  • Russian: “Понферрада”
  • Scots: “Ponferrada”
  • Serbian: “Понферада”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ponferrada”
  • Silesian: “Ponferrada”
  • Slovenian: “Ponferrada”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پومفرادا”
  • Spanish: “Ponferrada”
  • Swedish: “Ponferrada”
  • Tatar: “Понферрада”
  • Thai: “ปอนเฟร์ราดา”
  • Tok Pisin: “Ponferrada”
  • Turkish: “Ponferrada”
  • Ukrainian: “Понферрада”
  • Urdu: “پونفیرڈا”
  • Venetian: “Ponferrada”
  • Vietnamese: “Ponferrada”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ponferrada”

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