Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the province of Biscay and in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, with a population of roughly 347,000 in 2024, making it the eleventh most populous city in Spain. Once dominated by heavy industry and shipbuilding along the Nervion estuary, Bilbao reinvented itself in the 1990s around culture and design, most famously with the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude43.256944 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Connections
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Largest City
Source Basque Country (autonomous community) (Wikipedia)
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Since 1997, it has been on display outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
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1. Bilbao (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section, first paragraph
With a population of 347,342 as of 2024, it is the 11th most populous city in Spain, and the most populous in northern Spain.
Infobox, Municipality area row
41.50 km2 (16.02 sq mi)
Infobox, Founded row
15 June 1300
Infobox, Elevation row
19 m (62 ft)
- MediaWiki API prop=coordinates (decimal degrees resolved from the infobox Coord template)
- In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia, part-of country and UN M49 subregion
- In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source 2. GeoNames: Bilbao - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3128026
43.26271 -2.92528 P PPLA2 ES 59 BI 48020 347342 20 Europe/Madrid
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 20 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 43.25, -2.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 43.25, -2.75
43.25 -2.75 Cfb
Wikidata: Bilbao
Wikidata Q8692, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Basque Country (autonomous community) (Wikipedia)
Largest City: Basque Country (autonomous community), LeadQuote, Largest City: Basque Country (autonomous community), Lead
Bilbao is the largest in population, with a population of 350,975
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