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Castelo Branco District

Covilhã

Covilhã, officially Covilhã City, is a city and a municipality in the Centro region, . The city proper had 33,691 inhabitants in 2021. The municipality population in 2021 was 46,455 in an area of 555.60 square kilometres.
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  • Type: City with 34,500 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Covilhã Municipality”
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Covilhã train station and Estádio Municipal José dos Santos Pinto.

Railway station
Photo: Nuno Morão, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station.

Stadium
The is an association football located in Covilhã, , which is used by S.C. Covilhã as their home ground.

Town hall
Photo: Feliciano Guimarães, CC BY 2.0.
is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boidobra and Cantar-Galo e Vila do Carvalho.

Town
is a civil parish in the municipality of Covilhã, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 3,246, in an area of 16.26 square kilometres.

Town
is a civil parish in the municipality of Covilhã, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Cantar-Galo and Vila do Carvalho. The population in 2011 was 3,974, in an area of 15.80 square kilometres.

Covilhã

Latitude
40.2804° or 40° 16′ 49″ north
Longitude
-7.5042° or 7° 30′ 15″ west
Population
34,500
Elevation
678 metres (2,224 feet)
Open location code
8CGJ7FJW+58
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25269013
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8010474
Wiki­data ID
Q849026
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Covilhã” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوفيليا”
  • Armenian: “Կովիլյան”
  • Asturian: “Covilhã”
  • Basque: “Covilhã”
  • Belarusian: “Кавільян”
  • Breton: “Covilhã”
  • Catalan: “Covilhã”
  • Cebuano: “Covilhã (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Covilhã”
  • Chechen: “Ковильян”
  • Chinese: “Covilhã”
  • Chinese: “科維良”
  • Chinese: “科维良”
  • Dutch: “Covilha”
  • Dutch: “Covilhã”
  • Esperanto: “Covilhã”
  • Estonian: “Covilhã”
  • Finnish: “Covilha”
  • Finnish: “Covilhã”
  • French: “Covilha”
  • French: “Covilhã”
  • Georgian: “კოვილიანი”
  • German: “Covilha”
  • German: “Covilhã”
  • Hungarian: “Covilhã”
  • Indonesian: “Covilha”
  • Irish: “Covilhã”
  • Italian: “Covilha”
  • Italian: “Covilhã”
  • Japanese: “クヴィリャン”
  • Japanese: “コヴィリャ”
  • Japanese: “コヴィリャン”
  • Japanese: “コビリャン”
  • Korean: “코빌량”
  • Lithuanian: “Koviljanas”
  • Lombard: “Covilhã”
  • Mazanderani: “کوویلیا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Covilhã”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Covilhã”
  • Norwegian: “Covilhã”
  • Persian: “کوویلیا”
  • Polish: “Covilha”
  • Polish: “Covilhã”
  • Portuguese: “Covilhã”
  • Portuguese: “Município da Covilhã”
  • Romanian: “Covilha”
  • Romanian: “Covilhã”
  • Russian: “Ковильян”
  • Serbian: “Covilhã”
  • Serbian: “Kovilja”
  • Serbian: “Ковиља”
  • Spanish: “Covilha”
  • Spanish: “Covilhã”
  • Spanish: “Covillán”
  • Spanish: “Covillana”
  • Swedish: “Covilha”
  • Swedish: “Covilhã”
  • Tatar: “Ковильян”
  • Turkish: “Covilhã”
  • Ukrainian: “Ковілян”
  • Vietnamese: “Covilhã”
  • Volapük: “Covilhã”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Covilhã Municipality”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Covilhã”
  • “Covilhã”

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