Petrolina
Petrolina is a city in the São Francisco Valley, in the southernmost point of the state of Pernambuco, in Brazil. With over 340,000 inhabitants, it is one of the largest cities of the Northeast's Sertão, a mostly semi-arid and sparsely populated region.- …has about 294,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 400 metres (1,310 feet)
- …is also known as “彼得罗利纳”
- Location
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Latitude
-9.0662° or 9° 3′ 58″ south
Longitude
-40.5703° or 40° 34′ 13″ west
Open location code
682XWCMH+GV
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Petrolina” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بترولينا”
- Basque: “Petrolina”
- Bengali: “পেট্রোলিনা”
- Bishnupriya: “পেট্রোলিনা”
- Catalan: “Petrolina”
- Cebuano: “Petrolina”
- Chechen: “Петролина”
- Chinese: “彼得羅利納”
- Croatian: “Petrolina”
- Danish: “Petrolina”
- Dutch: “Petrolina”
- Esperanto: “Petrolina”
- Finnish: “Petrolina”
- French: “Petrolina”
- German: “Petrolina”
- Greek: “Πετρολίνα”
- Gujarati: “પેટ્રોલિના”
- Hausa: “Petrolina”
- Hindi: “पेट्रोलीना”
- Hungarian: “Petrolina”
- Icelandic: “Petrolina”
- Ido: “Petrolina”
- Indonesian: “Petrolina”
- Irish: “Petrolina”
- Italian: “Petrolina”
- Japanese: “ペトロリーナ”
- Kannada: “ಪೆಟ್ರೊಲಿನ”
- Kazakh: “Петролина”
- Korean: “페트롤리나”
- Latvian: “Petrolina”
- Lithuanian: “Petrolina”
- Malagasy: “Petrolina”
- Malay: “Petrolina”
- Marathi: “पेट्रोलिना”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Petrolina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Petrolina”
- Persian: “پترولینا”
- Polish: “Petrolina”
- Portuguese: “Petrolina”
- Romanian: “Petrolina”
- Russian: “Петролина”
- Serbian: “Петролина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Petrolina”
- Sinhala: “පෙට්රොලිනා”
- Spanish: “Petrolina”
- Swedish: “Petrolina”
- Tamil: “பெட்ரோலினா”
- Tatar: “Петролина”
- Telugu: “పెట్రోలిన”
- Thai: “เปตรูลีนา”
- Turkish: “Petrolina”
- Ukrainian: “Петроліна”
- Urdu: “پیترولینا”
- Venetian: “Petrolina”
- Vietnamese: “Petrolina”
- Volapük: “Petrolina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Petrolina”
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