Portbou

Portbou is in and is a small coastal town in northern Catalonia, at the end of the Costa Brava and just south of the French border. Wedged between steep Pyrenean slopes and a sheltered bay, it combines rugged scenery with a pebbly urban beach and a compact port.
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  • Village with about 1,130 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 30 metres (90 feet)
  • Description: municipality in Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia,Spain
  • Postal code: 17497
  • Neighbors

Places of Interest

Highlights include Portbou railway station and Cerbère station.
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Portbou is a railway station serving Portbou in , .
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is the railway station serving the…
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is a mountain saddle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cerbère and Colera.
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is a town of 1,400 people in in .
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is a small coastal village on the northern…
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, often just called Banyuls… is situated 6 km northwest of Portbou.

Portbou

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Latitude
42.4274° or 42° 25′ 39″ north
Longitude
3.1589° or 3° 9′ 32″ east
Open location code
8FJ5C5G5+XH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 130116259
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3113144
Wiki­data ID
Q7165

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Portbou” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Portbou”
  • Arabic: “بورتبو”
  • Aragonese: “Portbou”
  • Armenian: “Պորտբոու”
  • Asturian: “Portbou”
  • Basque: “Portbou”
  • Catalan: “Portbou”
  • Cebuano: “Portbou (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Portbou”
  • Chechen: “Портбоу”
  • Chinese: “波尔沃”
  • Croatian: “Portbou”
  • Czech: “Portbou”
  • Danish: “Portbou”
  • Dutch: “Portbou”
  • Esperanto: “Portbou”
  • Estonian: “Portbou”
  • French: “Portbou”
  • Galician: “Portbou”
  • Georgian: “პორტბოუ”
  • German: “Portbou”
  • Hebrew: “פורטבואו”
  • Hungarian: “Portbou”
  • Interlingua: “Portbou”
  • Irish: “Portbou”
  • Italian: “Portbou”
  • Japanese: “ポルトボウ”
  • Kazakh: “Портбоу”
  • Korean: “포르트보우”
  • Ladin: “Portbou”
  • Latin: “Portbou”
  • Lombard: “Portbou”
  • Macedonian: “Портбоу”
  • Malay: “Portbou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Portbou”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Portbou”
  • Pampanga: “Portbou”
  • Persian: “پرتبو”
  • Polish: “Portbou”
  • Portuguese: “Portbou”
  • Romanian: “Portbou”
  • Russian: “Портбоу”
  • Russian: “Портбу”
  • Serbian: “Портбоу”
  • Slovenian: “Portbou”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرتبو”
  • Spanish: “Port Bou”
  • Swedish: “Portbou”
  • Tahitian: “Portbou”
  • Tatar: “Портбоу”
  • Turkish: “Portbou”
  • Ukrainian: “Порбоу”
  • Ukrainian: “Портбоу”
  • Urdu: “پورتبو”
  • Venetian: “Portbou”
  • Vietnamese: “Portbou”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Portbou”
  • Welsh: “Portbou”

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