Tarifa
Tarifa is a small, historic town in the Province of Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain. Tarifa is the southernmost point of mainland Europe and Africa is just 14 km away across the Strait of Gibraltar and is exact point where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea.Places of Interest
Highlights: Isla de Las Palomas and Castle of Tarifa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Punta de Tarifa.
Punta de Tarifa
Locality
Punta de Tarifa is the southernmost point of the Iberian Peninsula and Continental Europe.
Tarifa
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
36.0129° or 36° 0′ 47″ north
Longitude
-5.605° or 5° 36′ 18″ west
Population
13,700
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
UN/LOCODE
ES TRF
Open location code
8C8P297V+5X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Tarifa” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Tarifa”
- Amharic: “ታሪፋ”
- Arabic: “طريف”
- Arabic: “طريفا”
- Arabic: “طريفة”
- Aragonese: “Tarifa”
- Armenian: “Տարիֆա”
- Asturian: “Tarifa”
- Basque: “Tarifa”
- Belarusian: “Тарыфа”
- Breton: “Tarifa”
- Bulgarian: “Тарифа”
- Catalan: “Tarifa”
- Cebuano: “Tarifa”
- Chechen: “Тарифа”
- Chinese: “塔里法”
- Croatian: “Tarifa”
- 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: “Tarifa”
- Swedish: “Tarifa”
- Tatar: “Тарифа”
- Turkish: “Tarifa”
- 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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