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The archipelago of the Azores is an autonomous region of . This group of is an ultra-peripheral area of the European Union.
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is in the Azores archipelago, an autonomous region of Portugal, in the Atlantic Ocean. Right off the airplane, all that can be seen are luscious green scenery, white houses, and hilltop after hilltop of true Portuguese culture.

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is the largest city in the Azores archipelago. It is on the island of , 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.

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, or simply Angra, is a city and municipality on Island in 's Azores archipelago. The town centre is a well-preserved UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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is the largest and most populous island of the Azores archipelago. Portuguese for Saint Michael, the island is also known by locals as "The Green Island". Most visitors arriving in the Azores will pass through .

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is an island in the Azores archipelago, an autonomous region of , in the Atlantic Ocean. This volcanic island is the second largest of the Azores, and provides opportunities for hiking and whale-watching.

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is an island in the Azores archipelago, an autonomous region of . Horta, the legislative capital of the Azores, is the sole municipality on the island.

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is an island in the eastern group of the Azores archipelago and the southernmost island in the Azores. The island is known for its white sand beaches, distinctive chimneys, and dry warm weather.

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is an island in the Azores archipelago, an autonomous region of , in the Atlantic Ocean. It is well known for its abundance of flowers, hence its Portuguese name of .

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is an island in the Azores. and are the two westernmost islands in the archipelago, and represent the only territory geographically located in , being west of the tectonic plate divide.

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is the second smallest island in 's Azores archipelago. Because of the concentration of agriculture, animal husbandry and dairy industries, the island has maintained a relatively rural and tranquil character.

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is an island in the central group of the Azores archipelago and part of the autonomous region of . Separated from its nearest neighbours by the 15-kilometre Pico-São Jorge Channel, the central group is often referred colloquially as part of the Triângulo group or just "The Triangle".

Azores

Latitude of center
37.8567° or 37° 51′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
-25.7839° or 25° 47′ 2″ west
Population
236,000
Elevation
258 metres (846 feet)
Geo­Names ID
3411865
Wiki­data ID
Q25263
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Azores” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Asore”
  • Afrikaans: “Azoreeilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Azores”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Azore”
  • Amharic: “አዞሬስ”
  • Arabic: “أزور”
  • Arabic: “الأزور”
  • Arabic: “جزر الازور”
  • Aragonese: “Azores”
  • Aragonese: “Islas Azores”
  • Armenian: “Ազորյան կղզիներ”
  • Asturian: “Azores”
  • Asturian: “Islles Azores”
  • Asturian: “Rexón Autónoma de les Azores”
  • Azerbaijani: “Azor adaları”
  • Azerbaijani: “Azor adası”
  • Basque: “Açores”
  • Basque: “Azore”
  • Basque: “Azoreak”
  • Basque: “Azores”
  • Belarusian: “Азорскія астравы, аўтаномны рэгіён”
  • Belarusian: “Азорскія астравы”
  • Bengali: “আজোরেস”
  • Bosnian: “Azores”
  • Bosnian: “Azori”
  • Breton: “Açores”
  • Breton: “Asorez”
  • Breton: “Azorez”
  • Breton: “Enezeg an Azorez”
  • Bulgarian: “Азорски острови”
  • Bulgarian: “Азорските острови”
  • Bulgarian: “Ястребови острови”
  • Catalan: “Açores”
  • Catalan: “Arxipèlag de les Açores”
  • Catalan: “Azores”
  • Catalan: “Illes Açores”
  • Catalan: “Regió Autònoma de les Açores”
  • Cebuano: “Azores”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی ئەزوور”
  • Chechen: “Азоран гӀайренаш”
  • Chechen: “Азорийн гӀайренаш”
  • Chinese: “Açores”
  • Chinese: “亚述尔群岛”
  • Chinese: “亚速尔”
  • Chinese: “亚速尔群岛”
  • Chinese: “亚速尔自治区”
  • Chinese: “亞速爾”
  • Chinese: “亞速爾島”
  • Chinese: “亞速爾群島”
  • Chinese: “亞速群島”
  • Cornish: “Ynysek Açores”
  • Corsican: “Azore”
  • Corsican: “Azori”
  • Corsican: “Azzori”
  • Croatian: “Azori”
  • Croatian: “Azorski otoci”
  • Croatian: “Azorsko otočje”
  • Czech: “Azorské ostrovy”
  • Czech: “Azory”
  • Danish: “Acorerne”
  • Danish: “Açorerne”
  • Danish: “Azorerne”
  • Dutch: “Azoren”
  • Dutch: “De Azoren”
  • Dutch: “Vlaamse eilanden”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزر الازور”
  • Esperanto: “Acoraj insuloj”
  • Esperanto: “Acoroj”
  • Esperanto: “Azoroj”
  • Estonian: “Assoori saared”
  • Estonian: “Assoorid”
  • Estonian: “Azoori saared”
  • Extremaduran: “Açoris”
  • Extremaduran: “Islas Açoris”
  • Faroese: “Azorurnar”
  • Finnish: “Açores”
  • Finnish: “Azorit”
  • French: “Acores”
  • French: “Açores”
  • French: “Azores”
  • French: “Região Autónoma dos Açores”
  • French: “Région autonome des Açores”
  • Gagauz: “Azorlar”
  • Galician: “Açores”
  • Galician: “Arquipélago das Azores”
  • Galician: “Arquipélago dos Azores”
  • Galician: “Azores”
  • Galician: “Illas Azores”
  • Galician: “Rexión Autónoma das Açores”
  • Galician: “Rexión Autónoma das Azores”
  • Galician: “Rexión Autónoma dos Açores”
  • Galician: “Rexión Autónoma dos Azores”
  • Georgian: “აზორის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Açores”
  • German: “Azoren”
  • German: “PT-20”
  • German: “Região Autónoma dos Açores”
  • Greek: “Αζόρες”
  • Gujarati: “એઝોર્સ”
  • Haitian: “Asò”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Açores”
  • Hebrew: “האיים האזוריים”
  • Hebrew: “האיים האזורים”
  • Hindi: “एज़ोरस”
  • Hindi: “एज़ोरेस”
  • Hungarian: “Açores”
  • Hungarian: “Azori-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Asoreyjar”
  • Icelandic: “Asóreyjar”
  • Icelandic: “Azoreyjar”
  • Ido: “Acori”
  • Igbo: “Azores”
  • Indonesian: “Azores”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Otonom Azores”
  • Interlingua: “Region autonome Azores”
  • Interlingue: “Azores”
  • Irish: “Na hAsóir”
  • Italian: “Azzorre”
  • Italian: “Isole Azzorre”
  • Japanese: “アソーレス”
  • Japanese: “アソーレス自治地域”
  • Japanese: “アソーレス諸島”
  • Japanese: “アゾレス”
  • Japanese: “アゾレス島”
  • Japanese: “アゾレス自治地域”
  • Japanese: “アゾレス自治州”
  • Japanese: “アゾレス諸島”
  • Javanese: “Azores”
  • Kannada: “ಅಝೊರ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Азор аралдары”
  • Kirghiz: “Aзор аралдары”
  • Kirghiz: “Азор аралдары”
  • Korean: “아소레스”
  • Korean: “아소르스 제도”
  • Korean: “아소르스”
  • Korean: “아조레스 제도”
  • Korean: “아조레스”
  • Ladino: “Asores”
  • Latin: “Azores”
  • Latin: “Insulae Accipitrinae”
  • Latvian: “Azoras”
  • Latvian: “Azoru salas”
  • Ligurian: “Isoe Azöe”
  • Ligurian: “Isoe Azore”
  • Limburgan: “Azore”
  • Lithuanian: “Azorai”
  • Lithuanian: “Azorų salos”
  • Low German: “Azoren”
  • Luxembourgish: “Azoren”
  • Macedonian: “Азори”
  • Macedonian: “Азорски Острови”
  • Malagasy: “Açores”
  • Malagasy: “Asaoro”
  • Malay: “Azores”
  • Maltese: “Ażores”
  • Marathi: “असोरेस”
  • Marathi: “एझोर्स द्वीपसमूह”
  • Marathi: “एझोर्स बेटे”
  • Mazanderani: “آزور”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Açores”
  • Mingrelian: “აზორიშ კოკეფი”
  • Mirandese: “Açores”
  • Mirandese: “Region Outónoma de ls Açores”
  • Mongolian: “Азорын арлууд”
  • Northern Frisian: “Atsooren”
  • Northern Frisian: “Azoren”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Asorene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Azorene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Acores”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Açores”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asorane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asorene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Azorane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Azorene”
  • Norwegian: “Azorene”
  • Novial: “Azores”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Açòres”
  • Ossetian: “Азораг сакъадæхтæ”
  • Ossetian: “Азоры сакъадæхтæ”
  • Papiamento: “Azores”
  • Persian: “آزور”
  • Persian: “ازور”
  • Persian: “جزیره های آزور”
  • Persian: “جزیره‌های آزور”
  • Persian: “جزیره‌های ازور”
  • Polish: “Azory”
  • Polish: “Wyspy azorskie”
  • Portuguese: “Açores”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago dos Açores”
  • Portuguese: “Região Autónoma dos Açores”
  • Pushto: “ازور ټاپوګان”
  • Pushto: “ازور”
  • Romanian: “Azore”
  • Romanian: “Azores”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Azore”
  • Russian: “Азорские острова”
  • Russian: “Азоры”
  • Russian: “Асориш”
  • Russian: “Асорские острова”
  • Russian: “Асоры”
  • Rusyn: “Азоры”
  • Sardinian: “Azorras”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Azore”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Azoren”
  • Scots: “Azores”
  • Serbian: “Açores”
  • Serbian: “Os Açores”
  • Serbian: “Азори”
  • Serbian: “Азорска острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Azori”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Azorska ostrva”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Azorski otoci”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Azorsko otočje”
  • Sicilian: “Azzorri”
  • Sinhala: “ඇසෝර්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Azory”
  • Slovenian: “Azori”
  • Slovenian: “Azorski otoki”
  • Spanish: “Acores”
  • Spanish: “Açores”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago de las azores”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago de las azores”
  • Spanish: “Azores”
  • Spanish: “Azoriana”
  • Spanish: “Azoriano”
  • Spanish: “Islas Azores”
  • Spanish: “Region Autonoma de las Azores”
  • Spanish: “Region Autónoma de las Azores”
  • Spanish: “Región Autónoma de las Azores”
  • Sundanese: “Asores”
  • Swahili: “Azori”
  • Swedish: “Acores”
  • Swedish: “Açores”
  • Swedish: “Azorerna”
  • Swiss German: “Azore”
  • Sylheti: “ꠀꠣꠎꠧꠞꠦꠍ”
  • Tagalog: “Azores”
  • Tajik: “Озур”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Азор”
  • Tamil: “அசோரசு”
  • Tamil: “அஸோர்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “அஸ்வ்ர்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Азор утраулары”
  • Telugu: “అజోరెస్”
  • Thai: “Azores”
  • Thai: “อะโซร์ส”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Azoren”
  • Turkish: “Asor adaları”
  • Turkish: “Azor Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Azorlar”
  • Turkmen: “Azor adalary”
  • Ukrainian: “Азори”
  • Ukrainian: “Азорські острови”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Acoriske kupy”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Acory”
  • Urdu: “آزورس”
  • Uzbek: “Azor orollari”
  • Uzbek: “Azor Orollari”
  • Vietnamese: “Açores”
  • Vietnamese: “Azores”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Azores”
  • Vlaams: “Azoorn”
  • Vlaams: “Azôorn”
  • Vlaams: “Azoren”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Açores”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Azores”
  • Welsh: “Açores”
  • Welsh: “Asores”
  • Welsh: “Azores”
  • Western Frisian: “Azoaren”
  • Western Panjabi: “ازور”
  • Western Panjabi: “ازوریس”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚速尔群岛”
  • Yiddish: “אזארן”
  • Yoruba: “Àwọn Azore”
  • Yoruba: “Azores”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞速爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Azoôr’n”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Azores”. Photo: Guillaume Baviere, CC BY 2.0.