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Veracruz

Veracruz

Veracruz is a large city in the state of in . The locals call their city "Puerto" to differentiate the city from the state of Veracruz.
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  • Type: City with 406,000 residents
  • Description: city of Veracruz, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Chalchiuhcuehcān”, “Ciudad de Veracruz”, “Heroica Veracruz”, “Vera Cruz”, “Veracruz City”, “Veracruz, Mexico”, and “Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Luis "Pirata" Fuente.

Stadium
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The Estadio Luis "Pirata" Fuente is an association football stadium located at the seaside in , , , with a capacity of 27,500.

Veracruz

Latitude
19.2003° or 19° 12′ 1″ north
Longitude
-96.1384° or 96° 8′ 18″ west
Population
406,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
VER
United Nations Location Code
MX VER
Open location code
76F56V26+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 472255714
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3514783
Wiki­data ID
Q173270
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Veracruz” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فيراكروز (مدينة)”
  • Arabic: “فيراكروز”
  • Arabic: “مدينة فيراكروز”
  • Armenian: “Վերակրուս”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Veracruz”
  • Asturian: “Veracruz (conceyu de Méxicu)”
  • Asturian: “Veracruz (Q20270915, Méxicu)”
  • Asturian: “Veracruz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Verakruz”
  • Basque: “Veracruz”
  • Bavarian: “Veracruz”
  • Belarusian: “Веракрус”
  • Bengali: “বেরাক্রুস”
  • Breton: “Veracruz”
  • Bulgarian: “Веракрус”
  • Catalan: “Port de Veracruz”
  • Catalan: “Veracruz”
  • Cebuano: “Veracruz”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤێراکرۆز”
  • Cheyenne: “Veracruz”
  • Chinese: “Veracruz”
  • Chinese: “真十字架”
  • Chinese: “韋拉克魯斯”
  • Chinese: “韦拉克鲁斯”
  • Czech: “Veracruz”
  • Danish: “Veracruz”
  • Dutch: “Veracruz Llave”
  • Dutch: “Veracruz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة فيراكروز”
  • Esperanto: “Veracruz”
  • Estonian: “Chalchihuecan”
  • Estonian: “Veracruz”
  • Estonian: “Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz”
  • Finnish: “Puerto de Veracruz”
  • Finnish: “Vera Cruz”
  • Finnish: “Veracruz”
  • French: “Veracruz”
  • Galician: “Puerto de Veracruz”
  • Galician: “Veracruz”
  • Georgian: “ვერაკრუსი”
  • German: “Veracruz”
  • Greek: “Βερακρούζ”
  • Greek: “Βερακρούς”
  • Gujarati: “પ્યુર્ટો બેરિઓસ”
  • Haitian: “Vil Veracruz”
  • Hebrew: “וראקרוס”
  • Hindi: “वेराक्रुज़”
  • Hungarian: “Veracruz”
  • Icelandic: “Veracruz (borg)”
  • Icelandic: “Veracruz”
  • Iloko: “Veracruz”
  • Indonesian: “Veracruz, Veracruz”
  • Indonesian: “Veracruz”
  • Interlingua: “Veracruz”
  • Irish: “Veracruz”
  • Italian: “Veracruz”
  • Japanese: “ヴェラクルス”
  • Japanese: “ベラクルス”
  • Kalaallisut: “Veracruz”
  • Kannada: “ವೆರಾಕ್ರಜ್”
  • Korean: “베라크루스”
  • Ladino: “Veracruz”
  • Ladino: “Verakruz”
  • Latin: “Vera Crux”
  • Latvian: “Verakrusa”
  • Latvian: “Verakrūza”
  • Lithuanian: “Veracruz”
  • Lithuanian: “Verakrusas”
  • Lombard: “Veracruz”
  • Malay: “Veracruz”
  • Maltese: “Veracruz”
  • Marathi: “बेराक्रुथ”
  • Marathi: “व्हेरा क्रुझ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Veracruz”
  • Mingrelian: “ვერაკრუსი”
  • Moksha: “Вэракрус”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Veracruz by”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Veracruz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Veracruz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Veracruz i Veracruz”
  • Norwegian: “Veracruz”
  • Ossetian: “Веракрус (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Веракрус”
  • Persian: “وراکروس”
  • Polish: “Veracruz”
  • Portuguese: “Veracruz”
  • Quechua: “Veracruz”
  • Romanian: “Veracruz, Veracruz”
  • Romanian: “Veracruz”
  • Russian: “Веракрус”
  • Scots: “Veracruz, Veracruz”
  • Scots: “Veracruz”
  • Serbian: “Veracruz”
  • Serbian: “Verakruz”
  • Serbian: “Веракруз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Veracruz”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Verakruz”
  • Silesian: “Veracruz”
  • Sinhala: “පුවර්ටෝ බරියෝස්”
  • Slovak: “Veracruz”
  • Slovenian: “Veracruz”
  • Spanish: “La Poderosa”
  • Spanish: “Puerto de Veracruz”
  • Spanish: “Veracruz Veracruz”
  • Spanish: “Veracruz”
  • Spanish: “Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz”
  • Swahili: “Veracruz, Veracruz”
  • Swahili: “Veracruz”
  • Swedish: “Vera Cruz”
  • Swedish: “Veracruz”
  • Tamil: “வேராகுரூசு”
  • Tatar: “Веракрус”
  • Telugu: “వర్యాక్రూస్”
  • Thai: “เบรากรุซ”
  • Thai: “เวรากรุซ”
  • Turkish: “Veracruz”
  • Ukrainian: “Веракрус”
  • Urdu: “ویراکروز”
  • Uzbek: “Verakrus (shahar)”
  • Uzbek: “Verakrus”
  • Venetian: “Veracruz”
  • Vietnamese: “Veracruz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Veracruz”
  • Welsh: “Veracruz”
  • Western Mari: “Веракрус”
  • Wu Chinese: “韦拉克鲁斯市”
  • “Chalchiwehkan”
  • “Chalchiwehkan Altepetl”
  • “Veracruz”

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