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Bilbao
is a port city located in the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain. It’s
the largest city in the entire region, and is the capital city of the
province known as Vizcaya (Biscay to the outside world), in northern
Spain. The city lies near the famous Bay of Biscay, about 11 km inland
from the bay, at the mouth of the river Nervíon, and is completely
surrounded by green hills.
Bilbao
can roughly be divided into two sections: the older half of the city,
which lies on the western bank of the Nervíon, and the newer half, which
lies on the eastern bank. A little more than a century ago, several
satellite towns that lay on the eastern bank of the Nervíon were annexed
to the city, forming its modern extension.
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