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Pontevedra

Vigo

Vigo is a port in in northwest Spain. It's industrial but has an old town and lots of maritime heritage. In 2024 the population was 295,000.
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  • Type: City with 201,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in north-west Spain in Pontevedra province
  • Also known as: “Vigo Spain” and “Vigo, Spain”
  • Postal codes: 36201-36216, 36270, 36271, 36280-36282, 36310, 36312-36315, 36317, 36318, 36330, 36331, 36339, 36390, and 36392

Places of Interest

Highlights include Carmelites and Vigo-Urzáiz railway station.

School
The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, known as the or sometimes by synecdoche known simply as Carmel, is a mendicant order in the Catholic Church for both men and women.

Railway station
Photo: HombreDHojalata, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vigo railway station, also known as Vigo-Urzáiz, is a railway terminus in Vigo, . It provides high speed train connection through the Atlantic Axis high-speed rail line with main Galician cities as , and every hour.

Railway station
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is a railway station in Vigo, . Originally the site of a freight depot for the port of Vigo, on the wharf of the same name, it serves as the temporary terminal for all trains into Vigo during the construction of the new Vialia Vigo station - replacing .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include A Salgueira and San Xoán do Monte, Vigo.

Suburb
Photo: Dantadd, CC BY 2.5.
is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Vigo

Latitude
42.2377° or 42° 14′ 16″ north
Longitude
-8.7247° or 8° 43′ 29″ west
Population
201,000
Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)
IATA airport code
VGO
United Nations Location Code
ES VGO
Open location code
8CJH67QG+34
Open­Street­Map ID
node 84550790
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3105976
Wiki­data ID
Q8745
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Vigo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vigo”
  • Albanian: “Vigo”
  • Arabic: “فيغو”
  • Aragonese: “Vigo”
  • Armenian: “Վիգո”
  • Asturian: “Vigo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Viqo”
  • Balinese: “Vigo”
  • Basque: “Vigo”
  • Belarusian: “Віга”
  • Bengali: “ভিগো”
  • Breton: “Vigo”
  • Bulgarian: “Виго”
  • Catalan: “Vigo”
  • Cebuano: “Vigo (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Vigo”
  • Chechen: “Виго”
  • Chinese: “Vigo”
  • Chinese: “比戈”
  • Chinese: “維戈”
  • Chinese: “维戈”
  • Chuvash: “Виго”
  • Croatian: “Vigo”
  • Czech: “Vigo”
  • Dagbani: “Vigo”
  • Danish: “Vigo”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Vigo”
  • Dutch: “Vigo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيجو”
  • Esperanto: “Vigo”
  • Estonian: “Vigo”
  • Extremaduran: “Vigu”
  • Finnish: “Vigo”
  • French: “Vigo”
  • Galician: “Vigo”
  • Georgian: “ვიგო”
  • German: “Vigo”
  • Greek: “Βίγο”
  • Guarani: “Vigo”
  • Gujarati: “વિગો”
  • Hebrew: “ויגו”
  • Hindi: “वीगो”
  • Hungarian: “Vigo”
  • Icelandic: “Vigo”
  • Indonesian: “Vigo”
  • Interlingua: “Vigo”
  • Interlingue: “Vigo”
  • Irish: “Vigo”
  • Italian: “Vigo”
  • Japanese: “ビーゴ”
  • Kabyle: “Vigo”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಗೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Vigo”
  • Kazakh: “Виго”
  • Kirghiz: “Виго шаары”
  • Korean: “비고”
  • Ladin: “Vigo”
  • Ladino: “Vigo”
  • Latvian: “Bigo”
  • Ligurian: “Vigo”
  • Lithuanian: “Vigas”
  • Lombard: “Vigo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vigo”
  • Macedonian: “Виго”
  • Malagasy: “Vigo”
  • Malay: “Vigo”
  • Maltese: “Vigo”
  • Maori: “Vigo”
  • Marathi: “विगो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vigo”
  • Moksha: “Виго”
  • Northern Frisian: “Vigo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vigo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vigo”
  • Norwegian: “Vigo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vigo”
  • Ossetian: “Виго”
  • Persian: “بیگو”
  • Polish: “Vigo”
  • Portuguese: “Vigo”
  • Quechua: “Vigo”
  • Romanian: “Vigo”
  • Russian: “Виго”
  • Sanskrit: “वीगो”
  • Scots: “Vigo”
  • Serbian: “Виго”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vigo”
  • Silesian: “Vigo”
  • Sinhala: “විගෝ”
  • Slovak: “Vigo”
  • Slovenian: “Vigo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیقو”
  • Spanish: “Vigo”
  • Swahili: “Vigo”
  • Swedish: “Vigo”
  • Tamil: “வீகொ”
  • Tatar: “Виго”
  • Telugu: “విగొ”
  • Thai: “บิโก”
  • Thai: “บีโก”
  • Turkish: “Vigo”
  • Ukrainian: “Віго”
  • Ukrainian: “Віґо”
  • Urdu: “ویگو”
  • Venetian: “Vigo (Spagna)”
  • Venetian: “Vigo”
  • Vietnamese: “Vigo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vigo”
  • Welsh: “Vigo”
  • Western Armenian: “Վիգո”
  • Western Panjabi: “وگو”
  • Wu Chinese: “维戈”
  • Yue Chinese: “維戈”
  • “Vigo”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Vigo”. Photo: Edu, CC BY 2.0.