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Andalusia
Cádiz

Tarifa

Tarifa is a small, historic town in the , , . Tarifa is the southernmost point of mainland and is just 14 km away across the Strait of Gibraltar and is exact point where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea.
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  • Type: Town with 13,800 residents
  • Description: municipality and town in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain
  • Postal codes: 11380 and 11380
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Isla de Las Palomas and Castle of Tarifa.

Islet
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is an island opposite the town of Tarifa at the southern end of the at the southernmost point of the and continental Europe. The island has been connected to the mainland by causeway since 1808.

Castle
Photo: Nicolas Vollmer, CC BY 2.0.
The , also known as Castle of Guzmán el Bueno or Castle of the Guzmáns is a castle in the coastal town of Tarifa in .

Lighthouse
Photo: Benjamín Núñez González, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Punta de Tarifa.

Locality
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is the southernmost point of the and Continental Europe. It is located in the and the autonomous community of on the Atlantic end of the .

Tarifa

Latitude
36.0129° or 36° 0′ 47″ north
Longitude
-5.605° or 5° 36′ 18″ west
Population
13,800
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ES TRF
Open location code
8C8P297V+5X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2245273211
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2510599
Wiki­data ID
Q222702
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Tarifa” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Tarifa”
  • Amharic: “ታሪፋ”
  • Arabic: “تاريفا”
  • Arabic: “طريف”
  • Arabic: “طريفا”
  • Arabic: “طريفة”
  • Aragonese: “Tarifa”
  • Armenian: “Տարիֆա”
  • Asturian: “Tarifa”
  • Basque: “Tarifa”
  • Belarusian: “Тарыфа”
  • Breton: “Tarifa”
  • Bulgarian: “Тарифа”
  • Catalan: “Ciudad de Tarifa”
  • Catalan: “Tarifa”
  • Cebuano: “Tarifa”
  • Chechen: “Тарифа”
  • Chinese: “Tarifa”
  • Chinese: “塔里法”
  • Croatian: “Tarifa”
  • Czech: “Tarifa (město)”
  • Czech: “Tarifa”
  • Danish: “Tarifa”
  • Dutch: “Tarifa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاريفا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طريفه”
  • Esperanto: “Tarifa”
  • Estonian: “Tarifa”
  • Finnish: “Tarifa”
  • French: “Tarifa”
  • Galician: “Tarifa”
  • Georgian: “ტარიფა”
  • German: “Tarifa”
  • Greek: “Ταρίφα”
  • Haitian: “Tarifa”
  • Hebrew: “טריפה”
  • Hungarian: “Tarifa”
  • Indonesian: “Tarifa”
  • Interlingua: “Tarifa”
  • Interlingue: “Tarifa”
  • Irish: “Tarifa”
  • Italian: “Tarifa”
  • Japanese: “タリファ”
  • Korean: “타리파”
  • Ladin: “Tarifa”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarifa”
  • Lombard: “Tarifa”
  • Malagasy: “Tarifa”
  • Malay: “Tarifa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tarifa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tarifa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarifa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tarifa”
  • Norwegian: “Tarifa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tarifa”
  • Persian: “تاریفا”
  • Polish: “Tarifa”
  • Portuguese: “Tarifa”
  • Romanian: “Tarifa”
  • Russian: “Тарифа”
  • Slovenian: “Tarifa, Španija”
  • Slovenian: “Tarifa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تاریفا”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Tarifa”
  • Spanish: “Tarifa”
  • Swedish: “Tarifa”
  • Tatar: “Тарифа”
  • Turkish: “Tarifa”
  • Ukrainian: “Тарифа”
  • Ukrainian: “Таріфа”
  • Urdu: “طریفہ”
  • Venetian: “Tarifa”
  • Vietnamese: “Tarifa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tarifa”
  • Welsh: “Tarifa”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔里法”
  • Wu Chinese: “鞑力乏”
  • Yue Chinese: “塔里法”

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