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Beja District

Beja

Beja is a city in with a population of 36,000 people. It stands on the summit of a high hill surrounded by beautiful and fertile valleys under cultivation, as the district is rich in agricultural products, mainly cereals, olive oil, and wine.
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  • Type: City with 22,400 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Beja Municipality” and “Beja, Portugal”
  • Historically known as: “Conistorgis”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castle of Beja and Cathedral of St. James the Great, Beja.

Photo: Costajosemanuel.foto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a medieval castle in the civil parish of Beja, municipality of Beja, .

Church
Photo: Antero Pires, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Cathedral of St. James the Great also called Beja Cathedral It is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and serves as the cathedral in Beja, , and the seat of the Diocese of Beja.

Museum
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum.

Beja

Latitude
38.0154° or 38° 0′ 56″ north
Longitude
-7.865° or 7° 51′ 54″ west
Population
22,400
Elevation
286 metres (938 feet)
IATA airport code
BYJ
United Nations Location Code
PT BEJ
Open location code
8CCJ248M+5X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 260140539
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2270985
Wiki­data ID
Q213251
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Beja” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باجة”
  • Asturian: “Beja”
  • Azerbaijani: “Beja”
  • Basque: “Beja”
  • Belarusian: “Бежа”
  • Bengali: “বেজা”
  • Breton: “Beja”
  • Bulgarian: “Бежа”
  • Catalan: “Beja”
  • Cebuano: “Beja (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Beja”
  • Chechen: “Бежа”
  • Chinese: “Beja”
  • Chinese: “貝雅”
  • Chinese: “贝雅”
  • Czech: “Beja”
  • Danish: “Beja”
  • Dutch: “Beja (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Beja”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باجه”
  • Esperanto: “Beja”
  • Esperanto: “Beĵa”
  • Esperanto: “Bejo”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Beja”
  • Estonian: “Beja”
  • Finnish: “Beja”
  • French: “Beja”
  • Galician: “Beja”
  • Georgian: “ბეჟა”
  • German: “Beja”
  • German: “Stadt Beja”
  • Greek: “Μπέτζα”
  • Greek: “Μπέχα”
  • Gujarati: “બેજા”
  • Hebrew: “בז’ה”
  • Hindi: “बेजा”
  • Hungarian: “Beja”
  • Indonesian: “Beja”
  • Irish: “Beja”
  • Italian: “Beja”
  • Japanese: “ベージャ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೇಜಾ”
  • Korean: “베자”
  • Latin: “Pax Iulia”
  • Latvian: “Beža”
  • Lithuanian: “Beža”
  • Lombard: “Beja”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Beja”
  • Macedonian: “Бежа”
  • Malay: “Beja”
  • Marathi: “बेजा”
  • Mazanderani: “بژا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Beja”
  • Mingrelian: “ბეჟა (პორტუგალია)”
  • Mingrelian: “ბეჟა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beja”
  • Norwegian: “Beja”
  • Novial: “Beja, Portugal”
  • Persian: “بژا”
  • Polish: “Beja”
  • Portuguese: “Beja”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Beja”
  • Romanian: “Beja”
  • Russian: “Бежа”
  • Scots: “Beja”
  • Serbian: “Beja”
  • Serbian: “Beža”
  • Serbian: “Бежа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beja”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beža”
  • Sinhala: “බෙජා”
  • Slovak: “Beja”
  • Spanish: “Beja”
  • Swedish: “Beja”
  • Tamil: “பெஜா”
  • Tatar: “Бежа”
  • Telugu: “బేజా”
  • Thai: “แบฌา”
  • Turkish: “Beja”
  • Ukrainian: “Бежа”
  • Urdu: “بیجا، پرتگال”
  • Vietnamese: “Beja”
  • Volapük: “Beja”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beja, Portugal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beja”
  • Welsh: “Beja”
  • “Beja”

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