Lanzarote
Lanzarote is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean 130 km west of North Africa and 1000 km southwest of mainland Spain. With a population of 156,112 in 2022, it's the fourth largest of the Canary Islands, about half the size of its neighbour Fuerteventura.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Popular Destinations
Arrecife
Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arrecife is the capital city of Lanzarote, with the island's airport and sea port, and a population in 2022 of 63,750.
Teguise
Photo: Brian Snelson, CC BY 2.0.
Teguise is a town in the north of Lanzarote, with a population of 1776 in 2018.
Haría
Photo: Max Hermus, Public domain.
Haría is a village in Lanzarote that gives its name to the municipality covering the north end of the island, with a population in 2020 of 5263.
Destinations
Playa Blanca
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Playa Blanca is a beach resort and ferry port on the south coast of Lanzarote, some 50 km southwest of the capital Arrecife.
Yaiza
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Yaiza is a village on the island of Lanzarote. It's the admin centre for the southern part of the island, but the main visitor attraction is that it's an access point for Timanfaya National Park.
Costa Teguise
Photo: Romazur, Public domain.
Costa Teguise is a beach resort on the east coast of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
Puerto del Carmen
Photo: Punkmorten, Public domain.
Puerto del Carmen is a large tourist resort on the south coast of Lanzarote, a few km west of Arrecife the capital and airport.
Lanzarote
- Type: Island with 150,000 residents
- Description: one of the main island of the Canary Islands, Spain
- Location: Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
29.01° or 29° 0' 36" northLongitude of centre
-13.641° or 13° 38' 28" westPopulation
150,000Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)IATA airport code
ACEUnited Nations Location Code
ES ACEGeoNames ID
2515699Wikidata ID
Q182432Lanzarote Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Lanzarote
- Arabic: Lanzarote
- Arabic: لانزاروت
- Aragonese: Lanzarote
- Armenian: Լանսարոտե
- Asturian: Lanzarote
- Azerbaijani: Lansarote
- Basque: Lanzarote
- Belarusian: Востраў Лансаротэ
- Belarusian: Лансаротэ
- Breton: Lanzarote
- Bulgarian: Лансароте
- Catalan: Lanzarote
- Cebuano: Lanzarote Island
- Chinese: 兰萨罗特岛
- Chinese: 蘭薩羅特島
- Croatian: Lanzarote
- Czech: Lanzarote
- Danish: Lanzarote
- Dutch: Lanzarote
- Egyptian Arabic: لانثاروتى
- Egyptian Arabic: لانزاروتى
- English: Lanzarote Island
- Esperanto: Lanzarote
- Esperanto: Lanzaroto
- Estonian: Lanzarote
- Finnish: Lanzarote
- French: Lancerotte
- French: Lanzarote
- French: Île de Lanzarote
- Galician: Lanzarote
- Georgian: ლანსაროტე
- German: Lanzarote
- Greek: Λανθαρότε
- Hebrew: לנסרוטה
- Hungarian: Lanzarote
- Icelandic: Lanzarote
- Inari Sami: Lanzarote
- Indonesian: Lanzarote
- Italian: Lanzarote
- Japanese: ランサロテ島
- Japanese: ランサローテ島
- Korean: 란사로테
- Korean: 란사로테섬
- Latin: Insula Lanzarotta
- Latin: Lanzarote
- Lithuanian: Lansarotė
- Luxembourgish: Lanzarote
- Macedonian: Лансароте
- Malay: Lanzarote
- Moroccan Arabic: لانساروطي
- Northern Frisian: Lanzarote
- Norwegian: Lanzarote
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lanzarote
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Lanzarote
- Occitan (post 1500): Lanzarote
- Persian: لانزاروته
- Polish: Lanzarote
- Portuguese: Lanzarote
- Portuguese: Lançarote
- Romanian: Lanzarote
- Russian: La Geria
- Russian: Лансароте
- Russian: Лансаротте
- Russian: Ланцерот
- Sardinian: Lanzarote
- Scots: Lanzarote
- Scottish Gaelic: Lanzarote
- Serbian: Ланзароте
- Serbo-Croatian: Lanzarote
- Slovenian: Lanzarote
- Spanish: Isla de Lanzarote
- Spanish: Isla de los volcanes
- Spanish: Lanzarote
- Spanish: Tyterogakaet
- Swedish: Lanzarote
- Thai: เกาะลันซาโรเต
- Turkish: Lanzarote
- Ukrainian: Лансароте
- Vietnamese: Lanzarote
- Waray (Philippines): Lanzarote
- Welsh: Lanzarote
- Western Mari: Лансароте
- Wu Chinese: 兰萨罗特岛
- Yue Chinese: 蘭薩羅特島
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Lanzarote. Photo: Nailemfa, CC BY 4.0.