Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.
Sestao
 | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Basque. (July 2010) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Sestao | |
|---|---|
 Town Hall | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Sestao Location of Sestao within the Basque Country  Sestao Sestao (Spain) | |
| Coordinates: 43°18′39″N 3°0′20″W / 43.31083°N 3.00556°W | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Autonomous community |  Basque Country |
| Province | Biscay |
| Comarca | Greater Bilbao |
| Segregatted | 1805 |
| Government | |
| • Alcalde | Ainhoa Basabe Meléndez (EAJ-PNV) |
| Area | |
• Total | 3.49 km2 (1.35 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 68 m (223 ft) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
• Total | 27,445 |
| • Density | 7,900/km2 (20,000/sq mi) |
| Demonym | sestaotarra[2] |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 48910 |
| Official language(s) | Basque |
| Website | Official website |
Sestao is a town and municipality of 27,296 inhabitants located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. It is in the left bank of the Estuary of Bilbao and part of Bilbao's metropolitan area.[3]
Sestao was the place of the most important steel industry of Biscay, Altos Hornos de Vizcaya.
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ Euskaltzaindia. "Euskal Onomastikaren Datutegia (EODA): Sestao" (in Basque). Euskaltzaindia. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
- ^ Ainhoa Arozamena Ayala. "Auñamendi Encyclopedia: Sestao" (in Spanish). Eusko Ikaskuntza. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
Previous Page Next Page
