Gibraltar

Gibraltar

Gibraltar ranks 199th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Jersey, Tuvalu, and Samoa. Memorable people born in present day Gibraltar include John Galliano, Stanley Maude, and Fabian Picardo. Memorable people who died in Gibraltar include Alfonso XI of Castile, Władysław Sikorski, and William Christie. Gibraltar has been the birth place of many politicians and fashion designers and the death place of many military personnels and politicians.

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean. It has an area of 6.7 km2 (2.6 sq mi) and is bordered to the north by Spain. The landscape is dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar, at the foot of which is a densely populated town area, home to some 32,688 people, primarily Gibraltarians. Read more on Wikipedia