What is "algeciras"

Algeciras (; ; ) is a port city in the south of Spain, and is the largest city on the Bay of Gibraltar (in Spanish, the Bahía de Algeciras). The Port of Algeciras is one of the largest ports in Europe and in the world in three categories: container, cargo and transhipment. It is situated 20 km north-east of Tarifa on the Río de la Miel, which is the southernmost river of the Iberian peninsula and continental Europe. In 2015, it had a population of 118,920.

It is the biggest city among its metropolitan area, that also includes the municipalities of Los Barrios, La Línea de la Concepción, Castellar de la Frontera, Jimena de la Frontera, San Roque and Tarifa, with a population of 263,739.

Algeciras is a port city in the south of Spain.

Algeciras may also refer to:

• The Bay of Algeciras, or Bay of Gibraltar, the area of sea to the north-west of the Gibraltar Strait
• The Port of Algeciras
• The Taifa of Algeciras, a medieval Muslim taifa kingdom in what is now southern Spain
• Algeciras CF, a Spanish football team
• Algeciras BM, a Spanish handball team

Other place names in the world

• Algeciras, Huila, Colombia
• Algeciras, a barangay in Agutaya municipality in Palawan, Philippines

Other uses of the name:

• The Algeciras Conference, an international forum to decide the future of Morocco.
• Operation Algeciras, a military operation of the Falklands War
• The Battle of Algeciras Bay, in fact two battles that took place at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

See also: Al Jazira.