Melilla is a Spanish

autonomous city Autonomous city is a type of autonomous administrative division. Argentina The 1994 amendment of the Constitution of Argentina granted Buenos Aires city, previously the federal district of Argentina, the status of autonomous city, to allow its ...

, located in the north coast of

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

. It has an airport, a port and roads.

Air transport

In Melilla, there is a national airport, Melilla Airport (IATA: ''MLN'', OACI: ''GEML''), which has a paved runway and a terminal. It has flights to

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

, Málaga,

Gran Canaria Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. the island had a population of that ...

and Palma de Mallorca. Some airlines with Melilla Airport as their hub are: Melilla Airlines, Ryjet, Airmel or Pauknair.

Maritime transport

There is a port, with ferry connection to Málaga,

Almería Almería (, , ) is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. It lies on southeastern Iberia on the Mediterranean Sea. Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. The city g ...

and

Motril Motril () is a town and municipality on the Mediterranean coast in the Granada, Spain. It is the second largest town in the province, with a population of 60,368 as of 2016. The town is located near the Guadalfeo River and is from Granada. Hi ...

Roads

There are 28 kilometers of roads in Melilla. 27 of those kilometers are roads with a single lane per direction, and only one kilometer has multiple lanes. There are no

freeways A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway and expressway. Other similar terms i ...

(in Spanish: ''autovía'' or ''autopista'') in the whole autonomous city.

Crossing points

Paso fronterizo entre Melilla y Beni Enzar

There are 4 crossing points between Melilla and

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...

, being the most important one the Beni Ensar Crossing Point.

Rail transport

There are no railways in Melilla.

Bus

The city of Melilla has 6 bus lines: * Line 1: Barrio Chino - García Cabrelles * Line 2: Plaza España - Frontera Benienzar * Line 3: Real - General Marina * Line 5: Plaza Torres Quevedo - Cabrerizas * Line 6: Plaza Torres Quevedo - Mariguari * Line 7: García Cabrelles - Farhana

References

{{Africa in topic, Transport in Melilla