San Sebastian

San Sebastián (or Donostia in Basque) is a coastal city and municipality, the capital of the Gipuzkoa province, and is located in the Basque Autonomous Community, in northern Spain. The city is located on the southern coast of the Bay of Biscay, 20 km from France. The population of San Sebastian’s municipality is 186,665 people (according to the data for 2020), and 436,500 people live in the entire San Sebastian comarca (as of 2019). A resident of Donostia is called a Donostiarra, in both Spanish and Basque. The Basque version of the city’s name – Donostia – has the same meaning as in Spanish – “Saint Sebastian”. The dona/done/doni element in Basque place-names signifies “saint” and is derived from the Latin domine; the second part of Donostia contains a shortened form of the saint’s name. More

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