Corvo
Corvo is an island in the Azores. Corvo and Flores are the two westernmost islands in the archipelago, and represent the only Portuguese territory geographically located in North America, being west of the tectonic plate divide.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: island with 430 residents
- Description: island of the Azores
- Also known as: “Corvo Island”, “Ilha do corvo”, “Ilha do Marco”, “Illa de Corvo”, “Isola Corvo”, “Korvus”, “Vila do corvo”, “Vila do Corvo Municipality”, “Остров Корву”, and “コルヴォ島”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Corvo Airport and Lagoa do Caldeirão.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vila do Corvo.
Vila do Corvo
Town
Photo: Dreizung, Public domain.Corvo
Latitude
39.6977° or 39° 41′ 52″ north
Longitude
-31.1055° or 31° 6′ 20″ west
Population
430
Elevation
586 metres (1,923 feet)
Open location code
89FCMVXV+3Q
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Corvo” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Corvo uhartea”
- Basque: “Corvo”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Корву”
- Belarusian: “Корву”
- Catalan: “Corvo”
- Cebuano: “Ilha do Corvo”
- Chinese: “科爾武島”
- Czech: “Corvo”
- Danish: “Corvo”
- Dutch: “Corvo”
- Estonian: “Corvo”
- French: “Corvo”
- Galician: “Illa do Corvo”
- German: “Corvo”
- Greek: “Κόρβο”
- Hebrew: “קורבו”
- Icelandic: “Corvo”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Corvo”
- Italian: “Corvo”
- Japanese: “コルボ島”
- Kazakh: “Корву”
- Korean: “코르부섬”
- Latvian: “Korvu”
- Lithuanian: “Korvas”
- Lombard: “Corvo (isola)”
- Lombard: “Corvo”
- Macedonian: “Корву (остров)”
- Macedonian: “Корву”
- Mirandese: “Corvo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Corvo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Corvo”
- Norwegian: “Corvo”
- Persian: “جزیره کوروو”
- Polish: “Corvo”
- Portuguese: “Corvo”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do Corvo”
- Portuguese: “Vila do Corvo”
- Russian: “Корву”
- Slovak: “Corvo”
- Spanish: “Isla de Corvo”
- Spanish: “Vila do Corvo”
- Swahili: “Corvo”
- Swedish: “Corvo”
- Turkish: “Corvo Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Корву”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Portugal (territorial waters) and Ponta Delgada.
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