Seville Around the World: 11 Places That Share Its Name

Seville across five continents: a tour of eleven places around the world that share our city’s name. Let’s begin! 🙂

COLOMBIA

Sevilla is a Colombian municipality in the eastern part of Valle del Cauca. It also belongs to Colombia’s Paisa region and coffee-growing belt, and is known as Colombia’s Coffee Capital.

UNITED STATES

Seville is in Wilcox County, Georgia. Its population was 202 in 2010. One detail I spotted on Google Maps: there is a Dollar General, a discount variety store rather like the bargain shops we know in Spain.

Seville is a census-designated place in Volusia County, Florida, around 100 kilometres north of Orlando. Its population in the 2010 census was 614.

Seville is a village in Medina County, Ohio, around 70 kilometres south of Cleveland. Its population in the 2010 census was 2,296.

Seville is a census-designated place in Tulare County, California. It lies between San Francisco and Los Angeles, around 320 kilometres from the latter. Its population was 480 in 2010.

PHILIPPINES

Sevilla is a municipality in Bohol province, in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. The original article records a population of 10,281.

ECUADOR

Sevilla de Oro is a canton in Azuay province, Ecuador, around 270 kilometres southeast of Guayaquil. The original article records a population of 5,889.

PANAMA

Isla Sevilla is a small island in Panama’s Chiriquí province, near the border with Costa Rica. A river separates part of this quiet island from the surrounding land.

JAMAICA

Saint Ann’s Bay is the capital of Saint Ann parish in northern Jamaica, in Middlesex County. The area’s Spanish colonial history is associated with Sevilla la Nueva, founded on the island’s north coast by Juan de Esquivel in 1509. It was Jamaica’s first Spanish colonial settlement and served as the first capital of Spanish Jamaica, among the earliest Spanish foundations in the Caribbean.

MADRID

Sevilla la Nueva is in southwestern Madrid, between Navalcarnero and Brunete. The original article records a population of 9,551.

AUSTRALIA

Seville is around 50 kilometres east of Melbourne, Australia. The original article describes a town of just over 2,500 people in an area known for its wineries. It also points out Carriage Cafe Seville, where the distinctive setting is an old railway carriage.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Niefang is a town in Río Muni, Equatorial Guinea, in Centro Sur province. It had a population of 37,273 in the 2011 census. Previously known as Sevilla de Niefang, it lies 70 kilometres east of Bata and is crossed by the Benito River.

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