Santander

Santander is the capital and largest city of the province of on the north coast of Spain, with a population of 175,000 in 2025. Its beaches draw Spanish visitors; most international visitors are just passing through via the ferry port, but its churches and museums are worth a longer stay.
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  • Type: City with 127,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain
  • Also known as: “Andreapolis”, “Portus Sancti Emetherii”, “Portus Victoriae”, “Santander, Espanha”, “Santander, Kantabria”, “Santander, Spain”, and “شنت أردم”
  • Postal codes: 39001-39012, 39070, 39071, and 39080

Places of Interest

Highlights: 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
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The Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander…

Stadium
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is an arena in Santander, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Román de la Llanilla and Peñacastillo.

Village
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is a village.

Village
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is a village.

Village
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is a locality in the municipality of Santander, north of the capital.

Santander

Latitude
43.4619° or 43° 27′ 43″ north
Longitude
-3.81° or 3° 48′ 36″ west
Population
127,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
SDR
UN/LOCODE
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 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: “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: “ಸಂಟಂಡೆರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾನ್ಟೆನ್ಡರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Santander”
  • Korean: “산탄데르”
  • Ladin: “Santander”
  • Ladino: “Santander”
  • Latin: “Portus Victoriae Iuliobrigensium”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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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