Sondika

{{Infobox settlement

| official_name = Sondika

| settlement_type =

| image_skyline = Bilbao Airport ATC (Air Traffic Control) - LEBB.jpg

| image_caption =

| image_flag =

| image_shield = 70px

| nickname =

| pushpin_map = Spain Basque Country

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Sondika within the Basque Country

| coordinates = {{coord|43.298777|-2.925348|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{flag|Spain}}

| subdivision_type1 = Autonomous community

| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Basque Country}}

| subdivision_type2 = Province

| subdivision_name2 = Biscay

| subdivision_type3 = Eskualdea

| subdivision_name3 = Greater Bilbao

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Gorka Carro Bilbao

| area_total_km2 = 6.30

| area_land_km2 =

| area_water_km2 =

| elevation_m = 27

| population_as_of = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}

| population_footnotes = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}

| population_total = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_total}}

| population_density_km2 = auto

| population_demonym =

| timezone = CET

| utc_offset = +1

| timezone_DST = CEST

| utc_offset_DST = +2

| website = [http://www.sondika.eus www.sondika.eus]

| footnotes =

}}

Sondika (Spanish, Sondica) is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.euskomedia.org/euskomedia/SAunamendi?idi=en&op=7&voz=SONDIKA |title=SONDIKA |encyclopedia=Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia |publisher=Euskomedia Fundazioa |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060331203603/http://www.euskomedia.org/euskomedia/SAunamendi?idi=en&op=7&voz=SONDIKA |archive-date=31 March 2006 |year=2002}}

Situated directly south of the runway of Bilbao Airport, it is the location of Bilbao British Cemetery, containing a Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery with 58 casualties (not to be confused with a far larger municipal cemetery in neighbouring Derio).

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