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Shouldn't some-thing be said about the crude oil spill?

The first sentence is unclear: "Vigo 42°14′14.12″N, 8°43′17.86″W is the largest city in Galicia located in the province of Pontevedra, Spain." Is Vigo the largest city in Galicia? Or is it only the largest city in the province of Pontevedra? (Without a comma between "Galicia" and "located" it would be the latter, but then why not just reword to say that?) VectorPosse 08:05, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vigo is the largest city in Galicia and the province of Pontevedra too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.27.16.248 (talk) 20:16, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

explanation for removed category

World War II section and Sunken U-boat category

The Category:Sunken U-boats and the "World War II" section of this article are both odd. The mentioned u-boats were sunk roughly 400 and 500 miles offshore; they can hardly be a local tourist attraction, and there is no mention of any historical implications to Vigo. Because the wrecks are so very far offshore, I am removing Vigo from Category:Sunken U-boats. I would suggest the "World War II" section, while factually accurate, be rewritten to address the impact of WWII on Vigo, not just anecdotally mention events so far removed from it. Maralia 17:58, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Organisation

Should the structure of the article maybe be revised? Also, does climate really count as geographic issue? And as it stands the layout is a bit higgledy-piggledy in places.Cymrog (talk) 23:21, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I apologise, having looked at some other articles Climate tends to come under Geography but Demographics often has it's own section.Cymrog (talk) 23:30, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Parroquias

Are all the parishes of Vigo considered districts of the city? Or some are villages (non-urban)?-Pedro (talk) 23:31, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

All of them respond to the Mayor's Office. Every time Vigo absorbed a village, it fully becamea part of the city. People may still call that region with its former name, and still has its own festivities and the like, but it is as part of the city as the rest. There are plans for a different thing, though. 83.32.84.51 (talk) 15:15, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WWII

Somewhere I read that German U-boats were secretly resupplied from a German ship anchored at Vigo during WWII - but I don't remember where I read it. Sca (talk) 17:22, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You may have seen it in Das Boot. It's a fictional account but I would guess the part about resupply in Vigo is real. Kendall-K1 (talk) 13:41, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

=Sister Cities

Vigo with Las palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) in web office las palmas http://www.laspalmasgc.es/views/Ayuntamiento/Relaciones%20Internacionales/Hermanamientos/index.jsp — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.117.3.216 (talk) 11:09, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

I think the correct phonetic transcription is /ˈbiːɡo/, not /ˈviːɡoʊ/. I understand that the latter would be the English pronunciation, but the Spanish and Galician pronunciation is the former. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.146.40.118 (talk) 07:47, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Flags

Per WP:FLAGCRUFT (et. al) flags in the "sister city twin town" section are not appropriate. Country flags confuse the issue and move the focus/emphasis away from the cities (partnership is with the city, not with the sovereign country), suggesting some non-existent broader relationship aside from bluntly detracting from the actual purpose of the section which it is to highlight the link between cities, not countries. And the odd notion of making such twin city sections "look unificated with other European cities" (which ones? why European?) as guiding target is misguided, because enforcing such consistency is not paramount (particularly if it comes at the price of losing important information such as dates).--Asqueladd (talk) 12:42, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]