San Juan
San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico and its largest city, with 342,000 inhabitants in the municipality and 2,203,000 in the metropolitan area. Founded in 1521 by the Spanish conquistadors, San Juan is the oldest city under the jurisdiction of the United States.Photo: James Willamor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Tomás Fano, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Popular Destinations
Bayamón
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Bayamón is a municipality in the San Juan metropolitan area and the second largest city in Puerto Rico with about 185,000 residents.
Notable Places in the Area
Fort San Felipe del Morro
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Castillo San Felipe del Morro, also known as El Morro, is a citadel built between 16th and 18th centuries in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci Airport
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Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci Airport, also commonly known as Isla Grande Airport, is an airport in Isla Grande, a district in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Castillo San Cristóbal
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Castillo San Cristóbal is a fortress in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Localities in the Area
Cataño
Photo: Serge Melki, CC BY 2.0.
Cataño is a small municipality and town in the Northern Coast region of Puerto Rico, across from Old San Juan in the Bay of San Juan.
Santurce
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Santurce is a barrio or district in the municipality of San Juan.
La Perla
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La Perla is a historical shanty town astride the northern historic city wall of Old San Juan…
San Juan
- Type: City with 418,000 residents
- Description: municipality and capital of Puerto Rico
- Neighbors: Aguas Buenas, Caguas and Carolina
- Categories: municipality of Puerto Rico, big city and locality
- Location: Northern Coast, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
18.4653° or 18° 27' 55" northLongitude
-66.1167° or 66° 7' westPopulation
418,000Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)IATA airport code
SJUUnited Nations Location Code
PR SJUOpen Location Code
77CMFV8M+48OpenStreetMap ID
node 53200527OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4568127Wikidata ID
Q41211San Juan Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: San Juan
- Albanian: San Huan
- Arabic: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Arabic: سان خوان
- Arabic: سان خوان، بورتوريكو
- Aragonese: San Juan
- Armenian: Սան Խուան
- Asturian: San Xuan
- Azerbaijani: San-Xuan
- Azerbaijani: San Xuan
- Basque: San Juan
- Basque: San Juan de Puerto Rico
- Belarusian: Сан-Хуан (Пуэрта-Рыка)
- Belarusian: Сан-Хуан
- Bengali: সান হুয়ান
- Bishnupriya: সান হুৱান, পুয়ের্তো রিকো
- Bishnupriya: সান হুৱান
- Bosnian: San Juan, Portoriko
- Bosnian: San Juan
- Breton: San Juan
- Bulgarian: Сан Хуан
- Catalan: San Juan
- Cebuano: San Juan
- Chinese: San Juan
- Chinese: 圣胡安
- Chinese: 聖環
- Chinese: 聖胡安
- Cornish: San Juan
- Croatian: San Juan, Portoriko
- Czech: San Juan
- Danish: San Juan
- Dutch: San Juan (Puerto Rico)
- Dutch: San Juan
- Egyptian Arabic: سان خوان
- Egyptian Arabic: سان خوان پويرتو ريكو
- English: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- English: San Juan Bautista
- English: San Juan Municipio
- English: San Juan de Puerto Rico
- Esperanto: San-Juano
- Estonian: San Juan
- Finnish: San Juan
- French: San Juan
- French: municipalité de San Juan
- Galician: San Juan
- Galician: San Juan de Puerto Rico
- Galician: San Xoán, Porto Rico
- Galician: San Xoán
- Galician: San Xoán de Porto Rico
- Georgian: სან-ხუანი
- German: San Juan
- German: Santurce
- Greek: Σαν Χουάν
- Gujarati: સેન જુઆન
- Hebrew: סן חואן
- Hindi: सैन जुआन
- Hungarian: San Juan
- Icelandic: San Juan
- Ido: San Juan
- Indonesian: San Juan, Puerto Riko
- Indonesian: San Juan
- Indonesian: san juan
- Irish: San Juan
- Italian: San Juan
- Japanese: サンフアン
- Japanese: サン・フアン
- Kannada: ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಉವಾನ್
- Kazakh: Сан Хуан
- Kazakh: Сан Хуан қаласы
- Korean: 산후안
- Korean: 샌환
- Ladin: San Juan (Puerto Rico)
- Ladin: San Juan
- Latin: Urbs Sancti Ioannis de Portu Divite
- Latvian: Sanhuana
- Lithuanian: San Chuanas
- Luxembourgish: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Luxembourgish: San Juan
- Macedonian: Сан Хуан
- Malagasy: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Malagasy: San Juan
- Malay: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Malay: San Juan
- Malayalam: സാൻ ഹുവാൻ
- Maltese: San Juan
- Marathi: सान हुआन, पोर्तो रिको
- Marathi: सान हुआन
- Min Nan Chinese: San Juan
- Mingrelian: სან-ხუანი
- Mongolian: Сан-Хуан
- Nepali: सान हुवान
- Norwegian: San Juan
- Norwegian Bokmål: San Juan
- Norwegian Nynorsk: San Juan på Puerto Rico
- Occitan (post 1500): San Juan
- Ossetian: Сан-Хуан
- Panjabi: ਸਾਨ ਹੁਆਨ, ਪੁਏਰਤੋ ਰੀਕੋ
- Panjabi: ਸਾਨ ਹੁਆਨ
- Papiamento: San Juan
- Persian: سان خوآن
- Persian: سان خوان
- Piemontese: San Juan (Porto Rico)
- Piemontese: San Juan
- Polish: San Juan
- Portuguese: San Juan
- Portuguese: San Juan, Porto Rico
- Quechua: San Juan
- Romanian: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Romanian: San Juan
- Russian: Сан-Хуан
- Sardinian: San Juan
- Scots: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Scottish Gaelic: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Serbian: San Huan
- Serbian: Сан Хуан
- Serbo-Croatian: San Juan
- Silesian: San Juan
- Sinhala: සැන් ජුවන්
- Slovak: San Juan
- Slovenian: San Juan, Portoriko
- Slovenian: San Juan
- South Azerbaijani: سان جوان، پورتو ریکو
- Spanish: Ciudad de Puerto Rico
- Spanish: Municipio Autónomo de San Juan Bautista
- Spanish: Municipio de San Juan
- Spanish: San Juan
- Spanish: San Juan (Puerto Rico)
- Swahili: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Swedish: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Swedish: San Juan
- Swedish: San Juan Bautista
- Tagalog: San Juan
- Tajik: Сан Ҳуан
- Tamil: சான் வான்
- Tamil: ஸேன் ஹுவான்
- Telugu: సాన్ హువాన్
- Thai: ซานฮวน
- Turkish: San Juan, Porto Riko
- Turkish: San Juan
- Turkmen: San-Huan
- Ukrainian: Сан-Хуан
- Urdu: سان جوآن
- Urdu: سان خوآن
- Uzbek: San-xuan
- Uzbek: San Juan, Puerto-Riko
- Uzbek: San Xuan
- Venetian: San Juan
- Veps: San Huan
- Vietnamese: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Vietnamese: San Juan
- Vietnamese: San Juan Bautista
- Volapük: San Juan
- Waray (Philippines): San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Welsh: San Juan
- Western Frisian: San Juan
- Wu Chinese: 圣胡安
- Yoruba: San Juan, Púẹ́rtò Ríkò
- Yue Chinese: 聖環
- Caparra
- Portorico
- Prico
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Iuan
- Saint John de Porto Rico
- Sainte Jean de Porto-rico
- San-Juan
- San Ian de Porto Rico
- San Ioanni
- San Jean de Portorico
- San Juan Batista de Puerto Rico
- San Juan Bautistade de Puerto Rico
- The City of Saint John
- Ville de Porto-Rico
- Ville de Sainte Jean de Porto Rico
- 圣胡安(波多黎各)
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. 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 San Juan. Photo: Tomás Fano, CC BY-SA 2.0.