San Juan

San Juan is the capital of and its largest city, with 342,000 inhabitants in the municipality and 2,203,000 in the metropolitan area. Founded in 1521 by the Spanish conquistadors, San Juan is the oldest city under the jurisdiction of the United States.
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  • Type: City with 323,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Puerto Rico
  • Also known as: “Caparra”, “Portorico”, “Prico”, “Puerto Rico”, “Saint Iuan”, “Saint John de Porto Rico”, “Sainte Jean de Porto-rico”, “San Ian de Porto Rico”, “San Ioanni”, “San Jean de Portorico”, “San Juan Batista de Puerto Rico”, “San Juan Bautista”, “San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico”, “San Juan Bautistade de Puerto Rico”, “San Juan de Puerto Rico”, “San Juan Municipio”, “San Juan PR”, “San Juan, PR”, “San Juan, Puerto Rico”, “The City of Saint John”, “Ville de Porto-Rico”, and “Ville de Sainte Jean de Porto Rico”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort San Felipe del Morro and Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci Airport.

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Castillo San Felipe del Morro, most commonly known as El Morro, is a large fortress and citadel in the historic quarter of San Juan, the capital municipality of .

Aerodrome
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, commonly known as Isla Grande Airport is a small airport in serving the capital municipality of San Juan and its metropolitan area since 1929.

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is a fortress in the historic quarter of San Juan, the capital municipality of , known for being the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cataño and San Juan.

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is a small municipality and town in the region of , across from Old San Juan in the Bay of San Juan.

Quarter
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Old is a historic district or quarter located at the "northwest triangle" of in , Puerto Rico. Its area roughly correlates to the , , Marina, Mercado, San Cristóbal, and San Francisco sub-barrios of barrio in the municipality of , Puerto Rico.

Suburb
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is the largest and most populated barrio of the municipality of San Juan, the capital city of . With a population of 69,469 in 2020, is also one of the most densely populated areas of the main island of Puerto Rico with a population larger than most municipalities of the territory.

San Juan

Latitude
18.4653° or 18° 27′ 55″ north
Longitude
-66.1167° or 66° 7′ west
Population
323,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
SJU
United Nations Location Code
PR SJU
Open location code
77CMFV8M+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 53200527
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4568127
Wiki­data ID
Q41211
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“San Juan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “San Juan”
  • Albanian: “San Huan”
  • Arabic: “سان خوان”
  • Aragonese: “San Juan”
  • Armenian: “Սան Խուան”
  • Asturian: “San Xuan”
  • Azerbaijani: “San Xuan”
  • Azerbaijani: “San-Xuan”
  • Balinese: “San Juan, Puérto Riko”
  • Basque: “San Juan de Puerto Rico”
  • Basque: “San Juan”
  • Belarusian: “Сан-Хуан (Пуэрта-Рыка)”
  • Belarusian: “Сан-Хуан”
  • Bengali: “সান হুয়ান, পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
  • Bengali: “সান হুয়ান”
  • Bishnupriya: “সান হুৱান, পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
  • Bishnupriya: “সান হুৱান”
  • Bosnian: “San Juan”
  • Breton: “San Juan”
  • Bulgarian: “Сан Хуан”
  • Catalan: “San Juan”
  • Cebuano: “San Juan”
  • Chinese: “San Juan”
  • Chinese: “圣胡安”
  • Chinese: “聖環”
  • Chinese: “聖胡安”
  • Cornish: “San Juan”
  • Croatian: “San Juan, Portoriko”
  • Croatian: “San Juan”
  • Czech: “San Juan”
  • Danish: “San Juan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “San Juan, Porto Riko”
  • Dutch: “San Juan (Puerto Rico)”
  • Dutch: “San Juan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سان خوان پويرتو ريكو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سان خوان”
  • Esperanto: “San-Juano”
  • Estonian: “San Juan”
  • Finnish: “San Juan”
  • French: “municipalité de San Juan”
  • French: “San Juan”
  • Galician: “San Juan”
  • Galician: “San Xoán de Porto Rico”
  • Galician: “San Xoán, Porto Rico”
  • Galician: “San Xoán”
  • Georgian: “სან-ხუანი”
  • German: “San Juan”
  • German: “Santurce”
  • Gilaki: “سان خۊآن”
  • Gilaki: “سن خۊآن (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
  • Greek: “Σαν Χουάν”
  • Gujarati: “સેન જુઆન”
  • Hebrew: “סן חואן”
  • Hindi: “सैन जुआन, प्यूर्टो रिको”
  • Hindi: “सैन जुआन”
  • Hungarian: “San Juan”
  • Icelandic: “San Juan”
  • Ido: “San Juan”
  • Ido: “San-Juan”
  • Indonesian: “San Juan de Puerto Rico”
  • Indonesian: “San Juan, Puerto Riko”
  • Indonesian: “San Juan”
  • Irish: “San Juan”
  • Italian: “San Juan”
  • Japanese: “サン・フアン”
  • Japanese: “サンフアン”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ‍ಉವಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Сан Хуан қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Сан Хуан”
  • Kazakh: “Сан-Хуан (Пуэрто-Рико)”
  • Kazakh: “Сан-Хуан”
  • Korean: “산후안”
  • Korean: “샌환”
  • Ladin: “San Juan”
  • Latin: “Urbs Sancti Ioannis de Portu Divite”
  • Latvian: “Sanhuana”
  • Ligurian: “San Juan (Pòrto Ricco)”
  • Ligurian: “San Juan”
  • Lithuanian: “San Chuanas”
  • Luxembourgish: “San Juan, Puerto Rico”
  • Luxembourgish: “San Juan”
  • Macedonian: “Сан Хуан”
  • Malagasy: “San Juan, Puerto Rico”
  • Malagasy: “San Juan”
  • Malay: “San Juan, Puerto Rico”
  • Malay: “San Juan”
  • Malayalam: “സാൻ ഹുവാൻ”
  • Maltese: “San Juan”
  • Marathi: “सान हुआन, पोर्तो रिको”
  • Marathi: “सान हुआन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “San Juan”
  • Mingrelian: “სან-ხუანი”
  • Mongolian: “Сан-Хуан”
  • Nepali: “सान हुवान”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “San Juan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “San Juan på Puerto Rico”
  • Norwegian: “San Juan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “San Juan”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sanct Iohnbyrg, Port Rīclond”
  • Ossetian: “Сан-Хуан”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਨ ਹੁਆਨ, ਪੁਏਰਤੋ ਰੀਕੋ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਨ ਹੁਆਨ”
  • Papiamento: “San Juan”
  • Persian: “سان خوآن”
  • Persian: “سان خوان”
  • Piemontese: “San Juan”
  • Polish: “San Juan”
  • Portuguese: “San Juan, Porto Rico”
  • Portuguese: “San Juan”
  • Pushto: “سانجوان”
  • Quechua: “San Juan”
  • Romanian: “San Juan, Puerto Rico”
  • Romanian: “San Juan”
  • Russian: “Сан-Хуан”
  • Sardinian: “San Juan”
  • Scots: “San Juan, Puerto Rico”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “San Juan, Puerto Rico”
  • Serbian: “San Huan”
  • Serbian: “Сан Хуан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “San Juan”
  • Silesian: “San Juan”
  • Sindhi: “سان جوآن، پورٽو ريڪو”
  • Sindhi: “سان خوآن، پورٽو ريڪو”
  • Sinhala: “සැන් ජුවන්, පුවර්ටෝ රිකෝ”
  • Sinhala: “සැන් ජුවන්”
  • Slovak: “San Juan”
  • Slovenian: “San Juan, Portoriko”
  • Slovenian: “San Juan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سان جوان، پورتو ریکو”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Puerto Rico”
  • Spanish: “Municipio Autónomo de San Juan Bautista”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de San Juan”
  • Spanish: “San Juan (Puerto Rico)”
  • Spanish: “San Juan”
  • Swahili: “San Juan, Puerto Rico”
  • Swedish: “San Juan Bautista”
  • Swedish: “San Juan, Puerto Rico”
  • Swedish: “San Juan”
  • Tagalog: “San Juan”
  • Tajik: “Сан Ҳуан”
  • Tamil: “சான் வான்”
  • Tamil: “ஸேன் ஹுவான்”
  • Telugu: “సాన్ హువాన్”
  • Thai: “ซานฮวน”
  • Turkish: “San Juan, Porto Riko”
  • Turkish: “San Juan”
  • Turkmen: “San-Huan”
  • Ukrainian: “Сан-Хуан”
  • Urdu: “سان جوآن”
  • Urdu: “سان خوآن”
  • Uzbek: “San Juan”
  • Uzbek: “San Xuan”
  • Uzbek: “San-xuan”
  • Venetian: “San Juan”
  • Veps: “San Huan”
  • Vietnamese: “San Juan Bautista”
  • Vietnamese: “San Juan, Puerto Rico”
  • Vietnamese: “San Juan”
  • Volapük: “San Juan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “San Juan, Puerto Rico”
  • Welsh: “San Juan”
  • Western Frisian: “San Juan”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣胡安（波多黎各）”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣胡安”
  • Yoruba: “San Juan, Púẹ́rtò Ríkò”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖環”
  • “San Juan”

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