Faro District
Faro is the southernmost district of Portugal. The area is the same as that of the Algarve region. The administrative centre, or district capital, is the city of Faro. It borders Spain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: district of Portugal with 459,000 residents
- Description: district of Portugal
- Also known as: “District of Faro” and “Faro”
- Neighbors: Huelva
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alte Waterfall and Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Assunção, matriz de Alte.
Alte Waterfall
Waterfall
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Alte Waterfall is situated 3½ km north of Faro District.
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Assunção, matriz de Alte
Church
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Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Assunção, matriz de Alte is a church, which is situated 4 km north of Faro District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alte and Paderne.
Alte
Village
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Alte is a village and civil parish in the municipality of Loulé, in the Algarve region in the south of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,997, in an area of 94.33 square kilometres. Alte is situated 4 km north of Faro District.
Paderne
Village
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Paderne is a village and civil parish in the municipality of Albufeira, in the Portuguese region of Algarve. The population in 2011 was 3,304, in an area of 52.56 km2. Paderne is situated 4 km southwest of Faro District.
Querença, Tôr e Benafim
Village
Querença, Tôr e Benafim is a civil parish in the municipality of Loulé, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Querença, Tôr and Benafim. The population in 2011 was 2,713, in an area of 102.18 km². Querença, Tôr e Benafim is situated 5 km northeast of Faro District.
Faro District
- Location: Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Faro District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فارو”
- Arabic: “محافظة فارو”
- Aragonese: “Destrito de Faro”
- Aragonese: “Districto de Faro”
- Azerbaijani: “Faru”
- Basque: “Faro”
- Basque: “Faroko barrutia”
- Bavarian: “Distrikt Faro”
- Belarusian: “акруга Фару”
- Belarusian: “Фару (акруга)”
- Belarusian: “Фару”
- Bengali: “ফারো জেলা”
- Breton: “Distrig Faro”
- Bulgarian: “Фару”
- Catalan: “Districte de Faro”
- Catalan: “Faro”
- Cebuano: “Distrito de Faro”
- Chinese: “Faro Koān”
- Chinese: “法魯區”
- Chinese: “法鲁区”
- Danish: “Faro”
- Dutch: “Algarve”
- Dutch: “District Faro”
- Dutch: “Faro (district)”
- Dutch: “Faro”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Faro”
- Esperanto: “Faro”
- Estonian: “Faro ringkond”
- Finnish: “Faron piiri”
- French: “District de Faro”
- French: “Faro”
- Galician: “Distrito de Faro”
- German: “Distrikt Faro”
- German: “Distrito de Faro”
- German: “Faro”
- German: “PT-08”
- Greek: “διαμέρισμα του Φάρο”
- Gujarati: “ફેરો જિલ્લો”
- Hebrew: “פארו (מחוז)”
- Hebrew: “פארו”
- Hindi: “फ़ारो जिला”
- Hungarian: “Faro”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Faro”
- Italian: “Distretto di Faro”
- Italian: “Faro”
- Japanese: “ファーロ県”
- Kannada: “ಫರೋ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “파루현”
- Ladino: “Faro”
- Latin: “Ossonoba”
- Latin: “Pharaonensis”
- Latvian: “Faru apgabals”
- Latvian: “Faru”
- Limburgan: “Faro”
- Lithuanian: “Faro apskritis”
- Lombard: “Distret de Faro”
- Malay: “Daerah Faro”
- Marathi: “फेरो जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Faro Koān”
- Mirandese: “Çtrito de Faro”
- Mirandese: “Distrito de Faro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Distrito de Faro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Faro”
- Norwegian: “Faro”
- Novial: “Distrikte de Faro”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Districte de Faro”
- Ossetian: “Фару (зылд)”
- Ossetian: “Фару”
- Persian: “فارو”
- Persian: “ناحیه فارو”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Faro”
- Polish: “Faro”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Faro”
- Portuguese: “Faro”
- Quechua: “Faro distritu”
- Romanian: “Districtul Faro”
- Russian: “Фару”
- Scots: “Faro Destrict”
- Serbian: “Faro”
- Serbian: “Фаро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Faro (distrikt)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Faro”
- Sinhala: “ෆාරො දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Slovenian: “Faro”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Faro”
- Spanish: “Faro”
- Swedish: “Faro distrikt”
- Swedish: “Faro”
- Swedish: “Farodistriktet”
- Tamil: “பாரோ மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “ఫారో జిల్లా”
- Thai: “ฟารู”
- Turkish: “Faro ili”
- Turkish: “Faro”
- Ukrainian: “Фару”
- Urdu: “فارو ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Faro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Faro”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع فارو”
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