Faial
Faial is an island in the Azores archipelago, an autonomous region of Portugal. Horta, the legislative capital of the Azores, is the sole municipality on the island.
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
Photo: Weedonio, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: Portuguese island of the Central Group of the Azores
- Also known as: “Faial Island”, “Fayal”, “Fayal Island”, “illa de Faial”, “Файял”, and “เกาะฟายาล”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Cabeço Gordo.
Cabeço Gordo
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Faial
- Category: landform
- Location: Flamengos, Horta Municipality, Azores, Islands of the Atlantic Ocean
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.5774° or 38° 34′ 39″ north
Longitude
-28.6999° or 28° 41′ 60″ west
Population
14,900
Elevation
809 metres (2,654 feet)
Open location code
89CHH8G2+W2
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Faial” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Faial uhartea”
- Basque: “Faial”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Фаял”
- Belarusian: “Фаял”
- Catalan: “Faial”
- Catalan: “Illa de Faial”
- Cebuano: “Ilha do Faial”
- Chinese: “法亚尔岛”
- Chinese: “法亞爾島”
- Czech: “Faial”
- Dutch: “Faial”
- Esperanto: “Faial”
- Estonian: “Faial”
- Finnish: “Faial”
- French: “Faial”
- Galician: “Illa do Faial”
- German: “Faial”
- German: “Ilha do Faial”
- Greek: “Νήσος Φαϊάλ”
- Greek: “Φαϊάλ”
- Hebrew: “פאיאל”
- Hungarian: “Faial”
- Icelandic: “Faial”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Faial”
- Italian: “Faial”
- Japanese: “ファイアル島”
- Korean: “파이알섬”
- Latvian: “Fajala”
- Lithuanian: “Fajalas”
- Macedonian: “Фајал (остров)”
- Macedonian: “Фајал”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Faial”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Faial”
- Norwegian: “Faial”
- Novial: “Isle Faial”
- Persian: “جزیره فیالی”
- Polish: “Faial”
- Portuguese: “Faial”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do Faial”
- Romanian: “Insula Faial”
- Russian: “Фаял”
- Slovenian: “Faial (otok)”
- Slovenian: “Faial”
- Spanish: “Isla de Faial”
- Spanish: “Isla de Fayal”
- Spanish: “Isla Faial”
- Swahili: “Faial”
- Swedish: “Faial”
- Thai: “เกาะไฟยัล”
- Turkish: “Faial Adası”
- Turkish: “Faial”
- Ukrainian: “Фаял”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Alto do Chão and Quebrada.
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