Bilbao

Bilbao (; ) is a Spaingie municipality, caipital o the province o Biscay, in the autonomous commonty o the Basque Kintra. Wi a population o 353,187 as o 2010, it is the lairgest ceety o its autonomous commonty an the tent lairgest in Spain. Bilbao lees athin ane o Spain's lairgest metropolitan auries; the comarca o Greater Bilbao haes an estimatit population o 875,552, makin it the fift maist populatit conurbation in the kintra.

Bilbao is situatit in the north-central pairt o Spain, some 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) sooth o the Bay o Biscay, where the estuary o Bilbao is formit. Its main urban core is surroondit bi twa sma muntain ranges wi an average elevation o 400 metres (1,300 ft).Quiroga 2001: 17

 Twin ceeties an consulates 

Bilbao is twinned wi:

 Buenos Aires, Argentinae
 Rosario, Argentinae
 Medellín, Colombie
 Bordeaux, Fraunce
 Qingdao, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae

 Tbilisi, Georgie
 Pittsburgh, Unitit States
 Sant Adrià de Besòs, Spain
 Iloilo, Philippines
 Surakarta, Indonesie

References

Category:1300 establishments
Category:Populatit places established in the 1300s

Category:Populatit coastal places in Spain
Category:Municipalities in Biscay
Category:Populatit places in Biscay
Category:Port ceeties an touns in Spain