Bite-sized Tips No. 5: Spanish Place Names

Spanish Place Names according to the New Oxford Style Manual

Most of these places in Spain in the list below are obvious and/or there’s no change. However, surprisingly (and randomly), some lose their accents and others don’t. The English versions all appear in the New Oxford Spelling Dictionary and/or the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors.

*SPANISH*	*ENGLISH*
A Coruña	Corunna
Albacete	Albacete
Almería	Almería (with accent)
Andalucía	Andalusia
Aragón	Aragon (no accent)
Cádiz	Cadiz (no accent)
Cartagena	Cartagena
Castilla	Castile
Castilla-La Mancha	Castilla-La Mancha
Castilla-León	Castilla-León (with accent)
Catalunya / Cataluña	Catalonia
Córdoba	Cordoba (no accent) and Cordova
Costa Blanca	Costa Blanca
Costa Brava	Costa Brava
Costa del Sol	Costa del Sol
Galicia	Galicia
Gijón	Gijón (with accent)
Granada	Granada
Islas Baleares	Balearic Islands
Islas Canarias	Canary Islands
Jerez de la Frontera	Jerez de la Frontera
La Coruña	Corunna
La Rioja	La Rioja
León	León (with accent)
Logroño	Logroño
Málaga	Malaga (no accent)
Mallorca	Majorca
Marbella	Marbella
Navarra	Navarre
País Vasco	Basque Country
Salamanca	Salamanca
San Sebastián	San Sebastián (with accent)
Santander	Santander
Santiago de Compostela	Santiago de Compostela
Segovia	Segovia
Sevilla	Seville
Valladolid	Valladolid
Vigo	Vigo
Vitoria	Vitoria
Zaragoza	Saragossa