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Palencia

municipality and capital city of the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain
Place municipality_of_spain Q8378

Facts

29 properties
Instance of
municipality of Spain
Country
Spain[2]
Official website
www.aytopalencia.es[22]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 42.017°, -4.533°
Capital of
Palencia Province[44]
Area
+94.71
Capital
Palencia City[6]
Coat of arms
Escudo de Palencia[17]
Contains settlement
Paredes de Monte, Palencia City[45][46]
Continent
Eurasia, Europe[4][5]
Demonym
palencianu, palenciana, palenciano, palentín, palentina, palentino, palentino, palentina, palentinos, palentinas, palentino
Described by source
Otto's encyclopedia, Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[38][39][40][41][42][43]
Different from
Conjunto Histórico de la Ciudad de Palencia
Elevation above sea level
+749
Female population
+41422
Head of government
Alfonso Polanco[3]
Licence plate code
P[19]
Local dialing code
979[20]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Palencia Province[1]
Located in/on physical feature
Tierra de Campos[21]
Male population
+36990
Native label
Palencia
Office held by head of government
mayor of Palencia[37]
Official name
Palencia[47]
Show all 29 facts +5
Owner of
Estadio Nueva Balastera
Population
77k (76k–83k, n=24)[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]
Postal code
34001–34006[18]
Shares border with
Villamuriel de Cerrato, Dueñas, Santa Cecilia del Alcor, Autilla del Pino, Grijota, Husillos, Fuentes de Valdepero, Villalobón, Magaz de Pisuerga[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Twinned administrative body
Bourges[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en Palencia ar بالنثيا el Παλένθια es Pallantia es Ciudad de Palencia fa پالنسیا he פלנסיה hi पलेनसिया ja パレンシア ko 팔렌시아 pt Palência ru Паленсия th ปาเลนเซีย uk Паленсія zh 帕伦西亚 zh-hant 帕倫西亞
🔖 Identifiers · 35
VIAF cluster ID
127827677
Library of Congress authority ID
n79043240
GND ID
4115827-1
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Palencia - panoramio (cropped).jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
43397
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--4622
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
18367
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
d7446547-cb95-469c-b247-122264d0acaf
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Palencia-Spain
FactGrid item ID
Rivadavia Department
Freebase ID
/m/02wz72
Galiciana authority ID
79765
Show all 35 identifiers +23
GeoNames ID
6360072
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 6360072 GND (DNB) 3114531 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
palencia-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0048520
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Palencia
INE code
34120
INSPIRE ID
ES.IGN.BDDAE.34073434120
Jewish Encyclopedia ID
11863
Museum-digital place ID
78709
MusicBrainz area ID
90105bd4-76e4-421e-a1f0-d3eb6ef9471d
NL CR AUT ID
ge114422
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007559652305171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX451178
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3953428
OpenStreetMap relation ID
347573
Pleiades ID
236592, 270360
Quora topic ID
Palencia
SNARC ID
Gustav Wilhelm von Jagow
Topic's main category
Category:Palencia
ToposText place ID
420000UPal
Vikidia article ID
fr:Palencia
Who's on First ID
404340663
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PCjMpVQpyqKRdgh6dtCCyBd
Yale LUX ID
place/8207c31c-08be-41e9-9b2f-ddb3ea9431b7

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🔗 Connections
People born here 47
Blanche of Castile, Elena Anaya, Sergio Asenjo, Pablo Casado Blanco, Ramón Calderón, Marta Domínguez, García Guerra, Nicholas Bobadilla +39 more
People who died here 12
Henry I of Castile, Berengaria of Barcelona, Juan de Flandes, Mencia Lopez de Haro, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Urraca of Castile, Queen of Navarre, Mariano Haro, Margarita Ferreras +4 more
Shares border with 9
Villamuriel de Cerrato, Fuentes de Valdepero, Magaz de Pisuerga, Autilla del Pino, Grijota, Husillos, Villalobón, Santa Cecilia del Alcor +1 more
← Shares border with 9
Villamuriel de Cerrato, Fuentes de Valdepero, Magaz de Pisuerga, Autilla del Pino, Grijota, Husillos, Villalobón, Santa Cecilia del Alcor +1 more
Contained subdivisions 7
Palencia Cathedral, University of Palencia, Estadio Nueva Balastera, Palencia railway station, Cristo del Otero, Palencia Baloncesto, Palencia City
← Headquarters location 6
CF Palencia, Roman Catholic Diocese of Palencia, Palencia Baloncesto, Diario Palentino, Palencia CF, El Día de Palencia
← Category combines topics 5
Category:People from Palencia, Category:Births in Palencia, Category:Bishops of Palencia, Category:Deaths in Palencia, Category:Sport in Palencia
Residents 4
Marta Domínguez, Nicolás Castellanos, Trinidad Arroyo, Raquel Martínez Rabanal
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
Continent 2
Europe, Eurasia
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
← Location of creation 2
Renault Kadjar, Renault Mégane IV
Capital 1
Palencia City
Capital of 1
Palencia Province
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Palencia
Category for people who died here 1
Category:Deaths in Palencia
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Palencia
Contains settlement 1
Palencia City
Country 1
Spain
FactGrid item ID 1
Rivadavia Department
Instance of 1
municipality of Spain
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Palencia Province
Located in this place 1
Estadio Nueva Balastera
Located in/on physical feature 1
Tierra de Campos
Owned entities 1
Estadio Nueva Balastera
Owner of 1
Estadio Nueva Balastera
Topic's main category 1
Category:Palencia
Twinned administrative body 1
Bourges
← Capital 1
Palencia Province
← Capital of 1
Palencia City
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Palencia
← SNARC ID 1
Cobija
← Twinned administrative body 1
Bourges
← Work location 1
Pedro Berruguete
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Related Entities

Blanche of Castile Bourges Elena Anaya Henry I of Castile Sergio Asenjo Spain University of Palencia

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