What is Gijón?
{{Infobox settlement | name = Gijón | settlement_type = [[Municipalities of Spain|Municipality]] | official_name = Gijón / Xixón<ref>{{Smallcaps|Consejería de Cultura, Comunicación Social y Turismo}}: {{Cite journal|issn=1579-7252|date=3 October 2006|journal=Boletín Oficial del Principado de Asturias|issue=229|url=http://www.asturias.es/bopa/2006/10/03/20061003.pdf|title=Decreto 105/2006, de 20 de septiembre, por el que se determinan los topónimos oficiales del concejo de Gijón|access-date=15 February 2022|archive-date=5 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105125307/http://www.asturias.es/bopa/2006/10/03/20061003.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> | image_skyline = Playa de San Lorenzo.jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = San Lorenzo beach at Gijón | image_flag = Flag of Gijón.svg | image_shield = Escudo de Gijón.svg | flag_size = 150 | shield_size = 75 | nickname = | motto = | pushpin_map = Spain#Spain Asturias | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_relief = 1 | pushpin_map_caption = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[Spain]] | subdivision_type1 = [[Autonomous communities of Spain|Autonomous community]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Asturias]] }} '''Gijón''' ([[Asturian language|Asturian]]: ''Xixón'') is a city in the [[Autonomous communities of Spain|autonomous community]] of [[Asturias]] in [[Spain]]. It is located on the [[Bay of Biscay]], about {{convert|20|km}} north of [[Oviedo]]. Gijón has a population of 275,274 [[inhabitant]]s,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.citypopulation.de/php/spain-asturias.php?cityid=33024 |title=Gijón (Asturias) |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=n.d. |website= |publisher=CITY P