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Coimbra District

Coimbra

Coimbra is the traditional capital city of Central 's historic region. With over 140,000 inhabitants, it is the largest municipality there and one of Portugal's four largest metropolises.
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  • Type: City with 106,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Coimbra Municipality”
  • Neighbors: and
Photo: Neva, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Olarcos, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Biblioteca Joanina and Portugal dos Pequenitos.

Library
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The , sometimes known in English as the Joanine Library, is a Baroque library in Coimbra, , located at the heart of the University of Coimbra.

Theme park
Photo: Juntas, Public domain.
The is a miniature park in the civil parish of , in the municipality of Coimbra, in the district of Coimbra.

Church
Photo: Carlos Luis M C da Cruz, Public domain.
The , also known as the Church of the Holy Cross, is a National Monument in Coimbra, . Because the first two kings of Portugal are buried in the church it was granted the status of National Pantheon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santo António dos Olivais and São Martinho do Bispo.

Suburb
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, commonly shortened to Olivais, is an urban civil parish in the municipality of Coimbra in Portugal, making up the eastern part of the historic city of Coimbra, east of University Hill.

Suburb
is a former civil parish in the municipality of Coimbra, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 14,147, in an area of 16.96 km2. On 28 January 2013 it merged with to form .

Suburb
is a former civil parish in the municipality of Coimbra, Portugal. It was also known as São Francisco or São Francisco da Ponte after its foundation in 1855.

Coimbra

Latitude
40.2112° or 40° 12′ 40″ north
Longitude
-8.4295° or 8° 25′ 46″ west
Population
106,000
Elevation
59 metres (194 feet)
IATA airport code
CBP
United Nations Location Code
PT CBP
Open location code
8CGH6H6C+F6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25623904
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2740637
Wiki­data ID
Q45412
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Coimbra” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Coimbra”
  • Arabic: “قلمري”
  • Arabic: “قلمرية”
  • Arabic: “قلمريه”
  • Arabic: “كويمبرا”
  • Aragonese: “Coimbra”
  • Armenian: “Կոիմբրա”
  • Armenian: “Կոիմբրիա”
  • Asturian: “Coímbra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Koimbra”
  • Balinese: “Coimbra”
  • Bashkir: “Коимбра”
  • Basque: “Coimbra”
  • Belarusian: “Каімбра”
  • Bengali: “কইম্ব্রা”
  • Bengali: “কুইঁব্রা”
  • Bishnupriya: “কোইমব্রা”
  • Bosnian: “Coimbra”
  • Breton: “Coimbra”
  • Bulgarian: “Коимбра”
  • Bulgarian: “Куимбра”
  • Catalan: “Aeminium”
  • Catalan: “Coimbra”
  • Catalan: “Coïmbra”
  • Catalan: “Conimbriga”
  • Catalan: “Kulumriya”
  • Cebuano: “Coimbra (munisipyo sa Portugal, Distrito de Coimbra, lat 40,22, long -8,45)”
  • Cebuano: “Coimbra”
  • Chechen: “Коимбра”
  • Chinese: “Coimbra”
  • Chinese: “哥英布拉”
  • Chinese: “孔布拉”
  • Chinese: “科因布拉”
  • Chinese: “科英布拉”
  • Cornish: “Coimbra”
  • Croatian: “Coimbra”
  • Czech: “Coimbra”
  • Czech: “Coímbra”
  • Danish: “Coimbra”
  • Dutch: “Coimbra (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Coimbra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كويمبرا”
  • Esperanto: “Coimbra”
  • Esperanto: “Koimbro”
  • Estonian: “Aeminium”
  • Estonian: “Coimbra”
  • Estonian: “Conimbriga”
  • Extremaduran: “Coimbra”
  • Finnish: “Coimbra”
  • French: “Coimbra”
  • French: “Coïmbra”
  • French: “Coimbre”
  • French: “Coïmbre”
  • Galician: “Coimbra”
  • Galician: “Coímbra”
  • Georgian: “კოიმბრა”
  • German: “Cidade de Coimbra”
  • German: “Coimbra”
  • Greek: “Κοΐμπρα”
  • Greek: “Κόιμπρα”
  • Greek: “Κόϊμπρα”
  • Gujarati: “કોઇમ્બ્રા”
  • Hebrew: “קוימברה”
  • Hindi: “कोइम्ब्रा”
  • Hungarian: “Coimbra”
  • Icelandic: “Coimbra”
  • Ido: “Coimbra”
  • Indonesian: “Coimbra”
  • Interlingue: “Coimbra”
  • Irish: “Coimbra”
  • Italian: “Coimbra”
  • Japanese: “クインブラ”
  • Japanese: “コインブラ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಇಂಬ್ರಾ”
  • Korean: “코임브라”
  • Korean: “쿠임브라”
  • Ladino: “Coimbra”
  • Latin: “Conimbrica”
  • Latin: “Conimbriga”
  • Latvian: “Koimbra”
  • Lithuanian: “Coimbra”
  • Lithuanian: “Koimbra”
  • Lombard: “Coimbra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Coimbra”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Coimbra”
  • Macedonian: “Коимбра”
  • Malay: “Coimbra”
  • Maltese: “Coimbra”
  • Marathi: “कुइंब्रा”
  • Mazanderani: “کویمبرا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Coimbra”
  • Mingrelian: “კოიმბრა”
  • Mirandese: “Coimbra”
  • Moksha: “Коимбра”
  • Mongolian: “Коимбра”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Coimbra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Coimbra”
  • Norwegian: “Coimbra”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Coïmbra”
  • Ossetian: “Коимбрæ”
  • Persian: “کویمبرا”
  • Polish: “Coimbra”
  • Portuguese: “Coimbra Capital Nacional da Cultura 2003”
  • Portuguese: “Coimbra”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Coimbra”
  • Quechua: “Coimbra”
  • Romanian: “Coimbra”
  • Russian: “Коимбра”
  • Sardinian: “Coimbra”
  • Scots: “Coimbra”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Coimbra”
  • Serbian: “Coimbra”
  • Serbian: “Квимбра”
  • Serbian: “Коимбра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Coimbra”
  • Sinhala: “කොයිම්බ්‍රා”
  • Slovak: “Coimbra”
  • Slovenian: “Coimbra”
  • Spanish: “Coimbra”
  • Spanish: “Coímbra”
  • Spanish: “Coïmbra”
  • Swahili: “Coimbra”
  • Swedish: “Coimbra”
  • Tagalog: “Coimbra”
  • Tamil: “கொய்ம்ப்ரா”
  • Tatar: “Коимбра”
  • Telugu: “క్వీంబ్రా”
  • Tetum: “Coimbra”
  • Tetum: “Koimbra”
  • Tetum: “Koímbra”
  • Thai: “Coimbra”
  • Thai: “กูอิงบรา”
  • Thai: “โคอิมบรา”
  • Turkish: “Coimbra”
  • Ukrainian: “Коїмбра”
  • Urdu: “کویمبرا”
  • Venetian: “Coinvra”
  • Veps: “Koimbr”
  • Vietnamese: “Coimbra”
  • Volapük: “Coimbra”
  • Võro: “Coimbra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Coimbra”
  • Welsh: “Coimbra”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوئیمبرا”
  • Wu Chinese: “科英布拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “哥英布拉”
  • “Coimbra”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Coimbra”. Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0.