๐ช๐ธ Murcia is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country. It is located on the Segura River, in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula; it has a climate with hot summers, mild winters, and relatively low precipitation.
Murcia was founded by the emir of Cordoba Abd ar-Rahman II in 825 with the name Mursiyah (ู ุฑุณูุฉโ). It is now mainly a services city and a university town. Highlights for visitors include the Cathedral of Murcia and a number of baroque buildings, renowned local cuisine, Holy Week procession, works of art by the famous Murcian sculptor Francisco Salzillo, and the Fiestas de Primavera. The city, as the capital of the comarca Huerta de Murcia is called "Europe's orchard" due to its long agricultural tradition and its fruit, vegetable, and flower production and exports.
Economy Economically, Murcia predominantly acts as a centre for agriculture and tourism. 33.1% of the municipality is utilised with crops purposes. 35.3% of the agreements of 2019 were written for jobs in agriculture and fishing sectors and 9.84% workers had signed agreements for crop land labouring in the second half of 2016. 7.79% agreements corresponded to the industry sector in 2019 and 5.91% workers had signed agreements for industry labouring in the second half of 2016. 53.12% agreements corresponded to jobs of the service sector in 2019 and 14.26% workers had signed agreements for the waiter job in the second half of 2016.
The economy of Murcia is supported by fairs and congresses, museums, theatres, cinema, music, aquariums, restaurants, hotels, shopping centres, camping, sports, foreign students, and tourism.
Murcia has a population of over 447,182 people. Murcia also forms part of the wider Murcia-Orihuela metropolitan area which has a population of over 763,723 people. Murcia is the #420 hipster city in the world, with a hipster score of 1.3857 according to the Hipster Index which evaluates and ranks the major cities of the world according to the number of vegan eateries, coffee shops, tattoo studios, vintage boutiques, and record stores. Murcia is ranked #548 for startups with a score of 0.316.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Murcia has links with:
๐ฎ๐น Genoa, Italy ๐ซ๐ท Grasse, France ๐ฒ๐ฝ Irapuato, Mexico ๐ฎ๐น Lecce, Italy ๐บ๐ธ Miami, USA ๐ต๐ญ Murcia, Philippines ๐ต๐ฑ ลรณdลบ, Poland๐ฌ๐ท Korydallos 37.983
๐ฌ๐ท Peristรฉri 38.013
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Leicester -1.129
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Gosport -1.124
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Worksop -1.117
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Basingstoke -1.09
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Portsmouth -1.083
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Gedling -1.081
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ York -1.078
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Doncaster -1.134
๐ซ๐ท La Rochelle -1.15
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Nottingham -1.15
๐ซ๐ท Ancenis-Saint-Gรฉrรฉon -1.183
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Mansfield -1.183
๐ช๐ธ Molina de Segura -1.2
Locations Near: Murcia -1.13076,37.983
๐ช๐ธ Molina de Segura -1.2,38.05 d: 9.6
๐ช๐ธ Orihuela -0.933,38.083 d: 20.6
๐ช๐ธ Torre Pacheco -0.954,37.744 d: 30.8
๐ช๐ธ Torre-Pacheco -0.95,37.733 d: 32
๐ช๐ธ Cartagena -0.983,37.6 d: 44.5
๐ช๐ธ Torrevieja -0.683,37.967 d: 39.3
๐ช๐ธ Elche -0.699,38.264 d: 49
๐ช๐ธ Elda -0.783,38.467 d: 61.8
๐ช๐ธ Lorca -1.691,37.681 d: 59.6
๐ช๐ธ San Vicente del Raspeig -0.517,38.383 d: 69.7
Antipodal to: Murcia 178.869,-37.983
๐ณ๐ฟ Gisborne 178.016,-38.659 d: 19909.3
๐ณ๐ฟ Napier 176.9,-39.505 d: 19774.7
๐ณ๐ฟ Hastings 176.843,-39.645 d: 19760.2
๐ณ๐ฟ Rotorua 176.25,-38.133 d: 19785.2
๐ณ๐ฟ Tauranga 176.154,-37.7 d: 19774.6
๐ณ๐ฟ Taupล 176.072,-38.687 d: 19758.9
๐ณ๐ฟ Cambridge 175.467,-37.883 d: 19716.5
๐ณ๐ฟ Hamilton 175.28,-37.788 d: 19699.4
๐ณ๐ฟ Palmerston North 175.61,-40.357 d: 19629.6