Braga
Braga is one of the five largest cities of Portugal, situated in the Minho region in the North of the country. It is known for its abundance of churches and thus called the "city of archbishops".
- City with about 193,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 220 metres (710 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code BGZ
- …is also known as “Braga Municipality”
- …was formerly known as “Bracara Augusta”
- Description: municipality in Portugal
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Estádio Municipal de Braga and Braga Cathedral.
Estádio Municipal de Braga
Stadium
The Estádio Municipal de Braga is an all-seater…
Braga Cathedral
Church
The Cathedral of Braga is a Roman Catholic church in the northern city of Braga, Portugal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include São Victor and São Vicente.
São Victor
Suburb
São Victor is a Portuguese parish, located in the municipality of Braga.
São Vicente
Suburb
São Vicente is a Portuguese freguesia, located in the municipality of Braga.
Braga
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Latitude
41.5511° or 41° 33′ 4″ north
Longitude
-8.428° or 8° 25′ 41″ west
UN/LOCODE
PT BGZ
Open location code
8CHHHH2C+CQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Braga” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Braga”
- Albanian: “Braga”
- Amharic: “ብራጋ”
- Arabic: “براغا”
- Arabic: “براقرة”
- Aragonese: “Braga”
- Armenian: “Բրագա”
- Asturian: “Braga”
- Azerbaijani: “Braga”
- Azerbaijani: “Braqa”
- Balinese: “Braga”
- Basque: “Braga”
- Belarusian: “Брага (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Брага”
- Bengali: “ব্রাগা”
- Bishnupriya: “ব্রাগা”
- Bosnian: “Braga”
- Breton: “Braga”
- Bulgarian: “Брага”
- Burmese: “ဘရာဂါ”
- Catalan: “Braga”
- Cebuano: “Braga”
- Chechen: “Брага (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Брага”
- Chinese: “Braga”
- Chinese: “布拉加”
- Cornish: “Braga”
- Croatian: “Braga”
- Czech: “Braga”
- Danish: “Braga”
- Dutch: “Braga (stad)”
- Dutch: “Braga”
- Esperanto: “Braga”
- Esperanto: “Brago”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Braga”
- Estonian: “Braga”
- Extremaduran: “Braga”
- Finnish: “Braga”
- French: “Braga”
- Galician: “Braga”
- Georgian: “ბრაგა”
- German: “Braga”
- Greek: “Μπράγα”
- Greek: “Μπράγκα”
- Gujarati: “બ્રાગા”
- Hausa: “Braga”
- Hebrew: “בראגה”
- Hindi: “ब्रागा”
- Hungarian: “Braga”
- Icelandic: “Braga”
- Ido: “Braga”
- Indonesian: “Braga, Portugal”
- Indonesian: “Braga”
- Interlingue: “Braga”
- Irish: “Braga”
- Italian: “Augusta Bracarensis”
- Italian: “Braga”
- Japanese: “ブラガ”
- Javanese: “Braga”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರಾಗ”
- Kazakh: “Брaга қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Брaга”
- Kazakh: “Брага”
- Kirghiz: “Брага”
- Korean: “브라가”
- Ladino: “Braga”
- Latin: “Bracara Augusta”
- Latin: “Braga”
- Latvian: “Braga”
- Latvian: “Brakara Augusta”
- Lithuanian: “Braga”
- Lithuanian: “Brakara Augusta”
- Lombard: “Braga”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Braga”
- Macedonian: “Брага”
- Malay: “Braga, Portugal”
- Malay: “Braga”
- Maltese: “Braga”
- Marathi: “ब्रागा”
- Mazanderani: “براگا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Braga”
- Mingrelian: “ბრაგა”
- Mirandese: “Braga”
- Mongolian: “Брага”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Braga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Braga”
- Norwegian: “Braga”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Braga”
- Oromo: “Braga”
- Ossetian: “Брагæ (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Брагæ”
- Panjabi: “ਬ੍ਰਾਗਾ”
- Persian: “براگا”
- Polish: “Braga”
- Portuguese: “Bracara Augusta”
- Portuguese: “Braga”
- Portuguese: “Município de Braga”
- Pushto: “براگا”
- Quechua: “Braga”
- Romanian: “Braga”
- Russian: “Брага”
- Serbian: “Брага”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Braga”
- Sicilian: “Vraca”
- Silesian: “Braga”
- Sinhala: “බ්රාගා”
- Slovak: “Braga”
- Slovenian: “Braga”
- Somali: “Braga”
- Spanish: “Braga”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Braga”
- Swahili: “Braga”
- Swedish: “Braga”
- Tachawit: “Bṛaga”
- Tajik: “Брага”
- Tamil: “ப்ராகா”
- Tatar: “Брага”
- Telugu: “బ్రాగా”
- Tetum: “Braga”
- Thai: “Braga”
- Thai: “บรากา”
- Turkish: “Bracara Augusta”
- Turkish: “Braga”
- Ukrainian: “Брага”
- Urdu: “براگا”
- Uzbek: “Braga”
- Venetian: “Braga (Portogało)”
- Venetian: “Braga”
- Vietnamese: “Braga”
- Volapük: “Braga”
- Waray (Philippines): “Braga”
- Welsh: “Braga”
- Western Panjabi: “براگا”
- Wu Chinese: “布拉加”
- Yue Chinese: “布拉加”
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