Gibraltar
Gibraltar, colloquially known as The Rock or Gib, is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Spain to the north; Morocco is a short distance across the strait to the south.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: Steve, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Gibraltar International Airport
Photo: Jnpet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gibraltar International Airport, previously known as North Front Airport, is the civilian airport that serves the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.
The Rock
Photo: Gibnews, Public domain.
The Rock of Gibraltar is a monolithic limestone promontory located in the British territory of Gibraltar, near the southwestern tip of Europe on the Iberian Peninsula, and near the entrance to the Mediterranean.
Gorham's Cave
Photo: Gibmetal77, CC BY 3.0.
Gorham's Cave is a sea-level cave in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.
Localities in the Area
La Línea de la Concepción
La Línea de la Concepción is a city of 63,000 people in the Cadiz province of southwestern Spain, just over the border from Gibraltar.Moorish Castle
Photo: James Cridland, CC BY 2.0.
The Moorish Castle is the name given to a medieval fortification in Gibraltar comprising various buildings, gates, and fortified walls, with the dominant features being the Tower of Homage and the Gate House.
Catalan Bay
Photo: Malcolm Tredinnick, CC BY 2.0.
Catalan Bay is a bay and fishing village in Gibraltar, on the eastern side of The Rock away from Westside.
Gibraltar
Latitude
36.1306° or 36° 7' 50" northLongitude
-5.3466° or 5° 20' 48" westPopulation
32,600Area
6 km² (2.3 miles²)Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)Capital
GibraltarCurrency
Pound (GIP)Phone code
.giInternet domain
350Open Location Code
8C8P4MJ3+69OpenStreetMap ID
node 267933614OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2411586Wikidata ID
Q1410Gibraltar Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Gibraltar
- Afar: Gibraltar
- Afrikaans: Gibraltar
- Akan: Gyebralta
- Albanian: Gjibraltar
- Albanian: Gjibraltari
- Amharic: ጂብራልተር
- Amharic: ጅብራልታር
- Angika: जिब्राल्टर
- Arabic: Gibraltar
- Arabic: جبرلتار
- Arabic: جبلرتار
- Arabic: جبل طارق (منطقة حكم ذاتي)
- Arabic: جبل طارق
- Arabic: جيبرالتار
- Arabic: محمية جبل طارق
- Arabic: مستعمرة جبل طارق
- Aragonese: Chibraltar
- Armenian: Ջիբրալթար
- Arpitan: Gibraltar
- Arpitan: Gibraltâr
- Assamese: জিব্ৰাল্টৰ
- Asturian: Xibraltar
- Azerbaijani: Cəbəli-Tariq
- Azerbaijani: Cəbəllütariq
- Azerbaijani: Cəbəllüttariq
- Bambara: Zibralitari
- Bashkir: Гибралтар
- Basque: Gibraltar
- Bavarian: Gibraltar
- Belarusian: Гібралтар
- Belarusian: Гібральтар
- Bengali: জিব্রাল্টার
- Bishnupriya: জিব্রালটার
- Bosnian: Gibraltar
- Breton: Jibraltar
- Bulgarian: Гибралтар
- Burmese: ဂျီဘရော်လ်တာ
- Catalan: Gibraltar
- Cebuano: Gibraltar
- Central Kurdish: گیبرالتار
- Chechen: Гибралтар
- Chinese: Gibraltar
- Chinese: 直布罗陀 / 直布羅陀
- Chinese: 直布罗陀
- Chinese: 直布羅陀
- Chuvash: Гибралтар
- Cornish: Jibraltar
- Croatian: Gibraltar
- Czech: Gibraltar
- Czech: Gibraltár
- Danish: Gibraltar
- Dhivehi: ޖަބަލްޠާރިޤު
- Dimli (individual language): Cebelitarıq
- Dutch: GI
- Dutch: GIB
- Dutch: Gibraltar
- Dzongkha: ཇིབ་རཱལ་ཊར
- Egyptian Arabic: جيبرالتار
- English: Gib
- English: The Rock of Gibraltar
- English: gi
- Esperanto: Ĝibraltaro
- Estonian: Gibraltar
- Ewe: Gibraltar nutome
- Extremaduran: Gibraltar
- Faroese: Gibraltar
- Fiji Hindi: Gibraltar
- Finnish: Gibraltar
- French: Gibraltar
- Fulah: Jibraltaar
- Gagauz: Cebelitarık
- Galician: Xibraltar - Gibraltar
- Galician: Xibraltar
- Ganda: Giburalita
- Georgian: გიბრალტარი
- Georgian: ჰიბრალტარი
- German: Gibraltar
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌲𐌿𐌽𐌹 𐍄𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌹𐍃
- Greek: Γιβραλτάρ
- Gujarati: જિબ્રાલ્ટર
- Gujarati: જીબ્રાલ્ટર
- Hakka Chinese: Gibraltar
- Hausa: Gibraltar
- Hausa: Jibaraltar
- Hebrew: גיברלטר
- Hindi: जिब्राल्टर
- Hungarian: Dzsabal Tárik
- Hungarian: Gibraltár
- Hungarian: Ţāriq hegye
- Hungarian: جبل طارق
- Icelandic: Gíbraltar
- Ido: Gibraltar
- Igbo: Gibraltar
- Inari Sami: Gibraltar
- Indonesian: Gibraltar
- Interlingua: Gibraltar
- Interlingue: Gibraltar
- Irish: Giobráltar
- Italian: Gibilterra
- Jamaican Creole English: Jibralta
- Japanese: ジブラルタル
- Javanese: Gibraltar
- Kabyle: Adrar n Ṭariq
- Kalaallisut: Gibraltar
- Kalmyk: Гибралта Балһсн
- Kannada: ಗಿಬ್ರಾಲ್ಟರ್
- Kannada: ಜಿಬ್ರಾಲ್ಟರ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Gibraltar
- Kashmiri: جِبرالٹَر
- Kazakh: Гибралтар
- Khmer: ហ្ស៊ីប្រាល់តា
- Kikuyu: Jibralta
- Kinyarwanda: Giburalitari
- Kirghiz: Гибралтар
- Korean: 지브롤터
- Kurdish: Cîbraltar
- Kurdish: Gibraltar
- Ladin: Gibraltar
- Ladino: Gibraltar
- Ladino: Jibraltar
- Lao: ຈິບບຣອນທາ
- Latin: Calpe
- Latin: Gibraltar
- Latin: Gibraltaria
- Latvian: Gibraltārs
- Lezghian: Гибралтар
- Ligurian: Gibiltæra
- Limburgan: Gibraltar
- Lingala: Zibatalɛ
- Lingua Franca Nova: Jibraltar
- Literary Chinese: 直布羅陀
- Lithuanian: Gibraltaras
- Lombard: Gibiltera
- Low German: Gibraltar
- Lower Sorbian: Gibraltar
- Luba-Katanga: Jibeletale
- Luxembourgish: Gibraltar
- Macedo-Romanian: Ghibraltar
- Macedonian: Гибралтар
- Maithili: गिब्राल्टार
- Malagasy: Gibraltara
- Malagasy: Zibraltara
- Malay: Gibraltar
- Malayalam: ജിബ്രാൾട്ടർ
- Maltese: Ġibiltà
- Manx: Gibraaltar
- Maori: Kāmaka
- Marathi: जिब्राल्टर
- Mazanderani: جبل طارق
- Min Dong Chinese: Gibraltar
- Min Nan Chinese: Gibraltar
- Mingrelian: გიბრალტარი
- Mirandese: Gibraltar
- Mongolian: Гибралтар
- Moroccan Arabic: جبل الطر
- Narom: Dgibrâltar
- Nepali: गिब्राल्टार
- Nepali: जिब्राल्टर
- Nepali: जिब्राल्टार
- Newari: जिब्राल्टर
- North Ndebele: Gibraltar
- Northern Frisian: Gibraltaar
- Northern Sami: Gibraltar
- Norwegian: Gibraltar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Gibraltar
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Gibraltar
- Novial: Gibraltar
- Occitan (post 1500): Gibartar
- Occitan (post 1500): Gibraltar
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Calpis
- Oriya: ଜିବ୍ରାଲେଟର
- Oriya: ଜିବ୍ରାଲ୍ଟର
- Oriya: ଜିବ୍ରାଲ୍ଟର୍
- Ossetian: Гибралтар
- Pampanga: Gibraltar
- Panjabi: ਜਿਬਰਾਲਟਰ
- Papiamento: Gibraltar
- Persian: جبل طارق
- Persian: جبلالطارق
- Piemontese: Gibiltèra
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Jibrulta
- Polish: Gibraltar
- Portuguese: Gib
- Portuguese: Gibraltar
- Portuguese: O Rochedo de Gibraltar
- Portuguese: gi
- Pushto: جبل الطارق
- Quechua: Gibraltar
- Romanian: Gibraltar
- Romansh: Gibraltar
- Rundi: Juburalitari
- Russian: Гибралтар
- Rusyn: Джібралтар
- Rusyn: Ґібралтар
- Samogitian: Gėbraltars
- Sango: Zibraltära, Zibaratära
- Sardinian: Gibraltar
- Scots: Gibraltar
- Scottish Gaelic: Diobraltar
- Scottish Gaelic: Giobraltair
- Serbian: Гибралтар
- Serbo-Croatian: Djabal Ṭariq
- Serbo-Croatian: Gibraltar
- Shan: ၵျီႇပရေႃးတႃး
- Shona: Gibraltar
- Sicilian: Gibbilterra
- Silesian: Gibraltar
- Sindhi: جبرالٽر
- Sindhi: جبل الطارق
- Sinhala: ජිබ්රෝල්ටාව
- Slovak: Gibraltár
- Slovenian: Gibraltar
- Somali: Gibraltar
- Somali: Jibraltaar
- South Azerbaijani: جبل الطارق
- Spanish: Gibraltar
- Spanish: la Roca
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵟⴰⵔⵉⵇ
- Sundanese: Gibraltar
- Swahili: Gibraltar
- Swedish: Gibraltar
- Swiss German: Gibraltar
- Tachelhit: Djabal Ṭariq
- Tagalog: Gibraltar
- Tagalog: Hibraltar
- Tajik: Гибралтар
- Tamil: ஜிப்ரால்டர்
- Tamil: ஜிப்ரால்ட்டர்
- Tatar: Гибралтар
- Telugu: జిబ్రాల్టర్
- Tetum: Jibraltár
- Thai: ยิบรอลตาร์
- Tibetan: ཇིབ་རཱལ་ཊར།
- Tigrinya: ጊብራልታር
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Sipalālitā
- Tosk Albanian: Gibraltar
- Tsonga: Gibraltar
- Tumbuka: Gibraltar
- Turkish: Cebelitarık
- Turkmen: Gibraltar
- Uighur: جەبىلتارىق
- Ukrainian: Гібралтар
- Ukrainian: Ґібралтар
- Upper Sorbian: Gibraltar
- Urdu: جبرالٹر
- Urdu: جبل الطارق
- Urdu: جبلالطارق
- Uzbek: Gibraltar
- Venetian: Gibiltera
- Venetian: Zibiltera
- Venetian: Zibraltera
- Vietnamese: Gibraltar
- Vlaams: Gibraltar
- Walloon: Djibraltar
- Waray (Philippines): Gibraltar
- Welsh: Gibraltar
- Western Frisian: Gibraltar
- Western Panjabi: جبرالٹر
- Wolof: Jibraltaar
- Wolof: Sibraltaar
- Wu Chinese: 直布罗陀
- Yiddish: גיבראַלטאַר
- Yiddish: גיבראלטאר
- Yoruba: Gibaratara
- Yoruba: Gibraltar
- Yue Chinese: 直布羅陀
- Zeeuws: Hibraltar
- Zulu: i-Gibraltar
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Other Places Named Gibraltar
Localities in the Area
- Ince’s FarmLocality
- New Harbours Industrial EstateLocality
- The IslandLocality
- King's Wharf ApartmentsLocality
- Coaling IslandLocality
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