Information about Gibraltar

Gibraltar is not an autonomous country but a territory of the United Kingdom with its own government on the southern point of the Iberian peninsula. Next to the entrance of the Mediterranean it is of strategic importance and the UK is unwilling to let go of it although it is surrounded by Spain. It's surface is 6,8 km². The Rock of Gibraltar is an important visitor attraction in this region and tourism is one of main sources of income. But Gibraltar also offers financial services and has some shipping facilities. The name comes from Arabic: Jabal Tariq: the mountain of Tariq, named after the Moorish armynaar de Moorse army leader Tariq ibn Zijad.

Almost 30,000 people ive in Gibraltar and 27% of the population has a British surname, 24% a Spanish surname, 15% a Genuese or other Italian surname, 15% a Portugese surname and 8% a Maltese surname. More than half of the population sees itself as Gibraltarian, followed by a group who sees themselves as 'another kind of British'

English is the official language

There have been found remains of Neanderthals in the caves of Gibraltar. Historians think the last of them lived her about 28.000 to 24.000 years ago. In that peirod the sealevel was lower and there were plains around the rock.
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Gibraltar has a Mediterranean climate with dry and warm summers and mild and wet winters. It seldom snows or freezes.

Over 500 different species of flowering plants grow on the Rock and of course there are the famous apes!
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