Azores
Azores is an island in Azores and has about 243,000 residents. Azores is situated nearby to the locality Ponta Delgada, as well as near Senhora da Piedade.- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago in the North Atlantic (for the administrative unit use Q25263)
- Also known as: “Archipelago dos Agores”, “Arquipélago dos Açores”, “Azore Islands”, “Azores archipelago”, “Azores Islands”, and “Western Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gruta do Carvão and Azorean Pineapple Plantation.
Gruta do Carvão
Cave
The Gruta do Carvão is an ancient lava tube located on the outskirts of the municipality of Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ponta Delgada and Fajã de Cima.
Ponta Delgada
Photo: Apeto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ponta Delgada is the largest city in the Azores archipelago. It is on the island of São Miguel, and was home to 67,000 people in 2021. It is an important administrative, industrial and agricultural centre, and the home of the University of the Azores.
Fajã de Cima
Village
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
Fajã de Cima is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. Fajã de Cima is located in the Picos region in the western part of the island of São Miguel, north of central Ponta Delgada. Fajã de Cima is situated 3½ km north of Azores.
Fajã de Baixo
Village
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
Fajã de Baixo is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 5,050, in an area of 4.06 km2.
Azores
- Categories: archipelago and landform
- Location: Azores, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Azores” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Asore”
- Albanian: “Ishujt Azore”
- Arabic: “الأزور”
- Armenian: “Ազորյան կղզիներ”
- Azerbaijani: “Azor adaları”
- Basque: “Azoreak”
- Basque: “Azoreetako artxipelagoa”
- Belarusian: “Азорскія астравы”
- Breton: “Azorez”
- Bulgarian: “Азорски острови”
- Catalan: “Açores”
- Cebuano: “Azores”
- Chinese: “亚述尔群岛”
- Chinese: “亚速尔群岛”
- Cornish: “Ynysek Açores”
- Corsican: “Azore”
- Croatian: “Azori”
- Czech: “Azory”
- Danish: “Acorerne”
- Danish: “Azorerne”
- Dutch: “Azoren”
- Esperanto: “Acoroj”
- Estonian: “Assoorid”
- Extremaduran: “Açoris”
- Finnish: “Azorit”
- French: “Açores”
- French: “Archipel des Açores”
- Galician: “Azores”
- Georgian: “აზორის კუნძულები”
- German: “Azoren”
- Greek: “Αζόρες”
- Hebrew: “האיים האזוריים”
- Hungarian: “Azori-szigetek”
- Icelandic: “Asóreyjar”
- Ido: “Acori”
- Indonesian: “Azores”
- Interlingua: “Archipelago Azores”
- Interlingua: “Azores”
- Italian: “Azzorre”
- Japanese: “アゾレス”
- Japanese: “アゾレス諸島”
- Kazakh: “Азор аралдары”
- Korean: “아소르스 제도”
- Latin: “Azores”
- Latvian: “Azoru arhipelāgs”
- Latvian: “Azoru salas”
- Latvian: “Azoru”
- Ligurian: “Isoe Azore”
- Lithuanian: “Azorai”
- Macedonian: “Азорски Острови”
- Malagasy: “Asaoro”
- Marathi: “असोरेस”
- Mingrelian: “აზორიშ კოკეფი”
- Mirandese: “Açores”
- Northern Frisian: “Azoren”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Asorene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asorane”
- Norwegian: “Asorene”
- Norwegian: “Azorene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Açòres”
- Ossetian: “Азоры сакъадæхтæ”
- Persian: “آزور”
- Polish: “Azory”
- Portuguese: “Açores”
- Portuguese: “arquipélago dos Açores”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas de Baixo”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas”
- Romanian: “Azore”
- Russian: “Азорские острова”
- Russian: “Азоры”
- Saterfriesisch: “Azoren”
- Serbian: “Азорска острва”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Azori”
- Slovak: “Azory”
- Slovenian: “Azori”
- Spanish: “Azores”
- Sundanese: “Asores”
- Swahili: “Azori”
- Swedish: “Azorerna”
- Tagalog: “Azores”
- Thai: “อะโซร์ส”
- Turkish: “Azorlar”
- Ukrainian: “Азорські острови”
- Urdu: “آزورس”
- Vietnamese: “Açores”
- Vlaams: “Azôorn”
- Western Frisian: “Azoaren”
- Western Panjabi: “ازور”
- Yoruba: “Àwọn Azore”
- “Azores”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Palácio da Conceição (Sede do Governo Regional dos Açores) and Palácio de Sant’Ana (Residência Oficial do Presidente do Governo Regional dos Açores).
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