Franco
Franco is a former civil parish and village in the municipality of Mirandela. It had 17,15 km² of area and 244 inhabitants. It was a civil parish with Vila Boa until 22 April 1957, and again merged on 28 January 2013 forming the Franco e Vila Boa parish following a nationwide administrative reform.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 284 residents
- Description: former civil parish in Mirandela, Portugal
- Also known as: “Freguesia de Franco”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vila Boa and Palheiros.
Vila Boa
Village
Vila Boa is a former civil parish and village in the municipality of Mirandela. It had 9,33 km² of area and 90 inhabitants. It was established on 22 April 1957 after leaving the Franco parish and in 28 January 2013 it merged with Franco once more to form the new Franco e Vila Boa parish. Vila Boa is situated 4½ km south of Franco.
Palheiros
Village
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Palheiros is a village, which is situated 5 km southwest of Franco.
Canaveses
Village
Photo: Ricardo2389, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Canaveses is a village, which is situated 8 km north of Franco.
Franco
- Categories: former freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: Franco e Vila Boa, Mirandela, Braganza District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
41.43438° or 41° 26′ 4″ northLongitude
-7.34213° or 7° 20′ 32″ westPopulation
284Elevation
499 metres (1,637 feet)Open location code
8CHJCMM5+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1464891583OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2739292Wikidata ID
Q1024450
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Franco” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Franco”
- Cebuano: “Franco”
- Chechen: “Франку (Мирандела)”
- Chechen: “Франку”
- Chinese: “Franco”
- Chinese: “弗朗库”
- Dutch: “Franco”
- French: “Freguesia de Franco”
- German: “Franco”
- German: “Freguesia de Franco”
- Kazakh: “Frankw”
- Kazakh: “Франку”
- Kazakh: “فرانكۋ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Franco”
- Portuguese: “Franco (freguesia)”
- Portuguese: “Franco (Mirandela)”
- Portuguese: “Franco”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Franco”
- Russian: “Франку”
- Spanish: “Franco (Mirandela)”
- Spanish: “Franco”
- Spanish: “Freguesia de Franco”
- Tatar: “Франку (Мирандела)”
- Tatar: “Франку”
- Turkish: “Franco”
- Ukrainian: “Франку (Португалія)”
- Ukrainian: “Франку”
- “Freguesia de Franco”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Franco”. Photo: Pedro, CC BY 2.0.