Alicante

Alicante

Alicante[a] (Valencian: Alacant)[b] is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 as of 2020[update], the second-largest in the Valencian Community.[5][c] The name of the city echoes the Arabic name Laqant (لَقَنْت), al-Laqant (اللَّقَنْت) or Al-qant (القنت),[6] which in turn reflects the Latin Lucentum[7] and Greek root Leuké (or Leuka), meaning "white".