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Santander

Santander is the capital and largest city of the province of in . It's on the north coast, with many beaches, ferries from Britain, and a small historic centre.
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  • Type: City with 126,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain
  • Also known as: “Santander, Spain”
  • Postal codes: 39001-39012, 39070, 39071, and 39080

Places of Interest

Highlights include Botin Centre and Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria.

Arts center
Photo: Angel de los Rios, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an arts center.

Museum
Photo: AVANTI, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an art museum in Santander, Spain. Today the museum specializes in modern and contemporary art.

Stadium
Photo: Josep Panadero, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an arena in Santander, , . It is primarily used for basketball and handball. The arena has 6,000 seats. It was opened in 2003 and designed by Julián Franco and José Manuel Palao.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Román de la Llanilla and Cueto.

Village
Photo: Luis Fermín TURIEL PEREDO, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village.

Village
Photo: Corso, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a locality in the municipality of Santander, north of the capital.

Village
Photo: L’irlandés, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village.

Santander

Latitude
43.4619° or 43° 27′ 43″ north
Longitude
-3.81° or 3° 48′ 36″ west
Population
126,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
SDR
United Nations Location Code
ES SDR
Open location code
8CMRF56Q+QX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26562214
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3109718
Wiki­data ID
Q12233
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Santander” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Santander, Spanje”
  • Afrikaans: “Santander”
  • Albanian: “Santander, Spanjë”
  • Albanian: “Santander”
  • Arabic: “سانتاندير”
  • Arabic: “شنت أردم”
  • Arabic: “شنت أندر”
  • Aragonese: “Santander”
  • Armenian: “Սանտանդեր”
  • Asturian: “Santander”
  • Azerbaijani: “Santander”
  • Basque: “Sanandere”
  • Basque: “Santander”
  • Belarusian: “Сантандэр”
  • Bengali: “সান্তান্দের”
  • Bosnian: “Santander”
  • Breton: “Santander”
  • Bulgarian: “Сантандер”
  • Catalan: “Santander”
  • Cebuano: “Santander (munisipyo sa Espanya, Cantabria, Provincia de Cantabria, lat 43,47, long -3,82)”
  • Cebuano: “Santander”
  • Chechen: “Сантандер”
  • Chinese: “Santander”
  • Chinese: “桑坦德”
  • Chinese: “聖坦德”
  • Cornish: “Santander”
  • Croatian: “Santander”
  • Czech: “Santander”
  • Dagbani: “Santander”
  • Danish: “Santander”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Santander”
  • Dutch: “Santander”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانتاندير”
  • Esperanto: “Santandero”
  • Estonian: “Santander”
  • Extremaduran: “Santandel”
  • Finnish: “Santander”
  • French: “Santander”
  • Galician: “Santander”
  • Georgian: “სანტანდერი”
  • German: “Santander”
  • Greek: “Σανταντέρ”
  • Gujarati: “સાંતાદેર”
  • Hawaiian: “Santander”
  • Hebrew: “סנטנדר”
  • Hindi: “सैंतांदर”
  • Hungarian: “Santander”
  • Icelandic: “Santander”
  • Indonesian: “Santander, Spanyol”
  • Indonesian: “Santander”
  • Interlingua: “Santander”
  • Interlingue: “Santander”
  • Irish: “Santander”
  • Italian: “Santander”
  • Japanese: “サンタンデール”
  • Javanese: “Santander”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾನ್ಟೆನ್ಡರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Santander”
  • Korean: “산탄데르”
  • Ladin: “Santander”
  • Ladino: “Santander”
  • Latin: “Andreapolis”
  • Latin: “Portus Sancti Emetherii”
  • Latin: “Portus Victoriae Iuliobrigensium”
  • Latin: “Portus Victoriae”
  • Latin: “Santander”
  • Latvian: “Santandera”
  • Lithuanian: “Santanderas”
  • Lombard: “Santander”
  • Low German: “Santander”
  • Luxembourgish: “Santander”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Santander”
  • Malay: “Santander, Sepanyol”
  • Malay: “Santander”
  • Maltese: “Santander (Spanja)”
  • Maltese: “Santander”
  • Marathi: “सांतांदेर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Santander”
  • Northern Frisian: “Santander”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Santander”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Santander”
  • Norwegian: “Santander”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santandèr”
  • Ossetian: “Сантандер”
  • Persian: “سانتاندر”
  • Piemontese: “Santander”
  • Polish: “Santander”
  • Portuguese: “Santander, Espanha”
  • Portuguese: “Santander”
  • Quechua: “Santander”
  • Romanian: “Santander”
  • Russian: “Сантандер”
  • Sardinian: “Santander”
  • Scots: “Santander, Spain”
  • Scots: “Santander”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Santander”
  • Serbian: “Сантандер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santander”
  • Silesian: “Santander”
  • Sinhala: “සන්ටන්ඩර්”
  • Slovak: “Santander”
  • Slovenian: “Santander”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سانتاندر”
  • Spanish: “Santander”
  • Swahili: “Santander, Hispania”
  • Swedish: “Santander, Spanien”
  • Swedish: “Santander”
  • Tajik: “Сантандер”
  • Tamil: “சான்தான்தேர்”
  • Tatar: “Сантандер”
  • Telugu: “శాంటాండెర్”
  • Tetum: “Santandér”
  • Thai: “ซันตันเดร์”
  • Turkish: “Santander, Kantabria”
  • Turkish: “Santander”
  • Ukrainian: “Сантандер”
  • Urdu: “سانتاندیئر، ہسپانیہ”
  • Venetian: “Santander”
  • Vietnamese: “Santander, Cantabria”
  • Vietnamese: “Santander”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Santander, Cantabria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Santander”
  • Welsh: “Santander, Cantabria”
  • Welsh: “Santander”
  • Western Frisian: “Santander”
  • Western Panjabi: “سانٹانڈر”
  • Wu Chinese: “桑坦德 (西班牙)”
  • Wu Chinese: “桑坦德（西班牙）”
  • Yue Chinese: “桑坦德”
  • “Santander”

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