Faro

Faro is a city in the region of that is a popular sun destination in the summer, and a base for exploring the surrounding area.
  • City with about 64,600 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (30 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code FAO
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as
    “Faro Municipality”
    “Faro, Portugal”
  • Neighbors

Places of Interest

Highlights include Faro railway station and Estádio de São Luís.
Railway station
Faro station is the main railway station in the city…
PauloMoreira, Public domain.
Stadium
The , also known as Santo Stadium…
is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Faro, Portugal.
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Latitude
37.0163° or 37° 0′ 59″ north
Longitude
-7.9352° or 7° 56′ 7″ west
UN/LOCODE
PT FAO
Open location code
8C9J2387+GW
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Faro” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Albanian: “Faro”
  • Amharic: “ፋሮ”
  • Arabic: “شنتمرية الغرب”
  • Arabic: “فارو”
  • Armenian: “Ֆարո”
  • Asturian: “Faro”
  • Azerbaijani: “Faro”
  • Balinese: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Basque: “Faro”
  • Belarusian: “Фару”
  • Bengali: “ফারো”
  • Breton: “Faro”
  • Bulgarian: “Фаро”
  • Bulgarian: “Фару”
  • Catalan: “Faro”
  • Catalan: “Shantamariyya al-Gharbiyya”
  • Catalan: “Shantamariyyat al-Gharb”
  • Catalan: “Shantamriyyat al-Gharb”
  • Cebuano: “Faro”
  • Chechen: “Фару”
  • Chinese: “法羅”
  • Chinese: “法魯”
  • Chinese: “法鲁”
  • Croatian: “Faro”
  • Czech: “Faro”
  • Danish: “Faro”
  • Dutch: “Faro (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Faro”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Faro”
  • Esperanto: “Faro”
  • Estonian: “Faro”
  • Extremaduran: “Faro”
  • Extremaduran: “Faru”
  • Finnish: “Faro”
  • French: “Faro”
  • Galician: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Galician: “Faro”
  • Georgian: “ფარუ”
  • German: “Faro”
  • Greek: “Φάρο”
  • Gujarati: “ફેરો”
  • Hausa: “Faro”
  • Hebrew: “פארו”
  • Hindi: “फारो”
  • Hungarian: “Faro”
  • Icelandic: “Faro”
  • Indonesian: “Faro”
  • Irish: “Faro”
  • Italian: “Faro”
  • Japanese: “ファーロ”
  • Japanese: “ファロ”
  • Javanese: “Faro”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ಯಾರೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Фару”
  • Kirghiz: “Фару”
  • Korean: “파루 지방자치단체”
  • Korean: “파루”
  • Ladino: “Faro”
  • Latin: “Ossonoba”
  • Latvian: “Faru”
  • Lithuanian: “Faras”
  • Lombard: “Faro (Portogall)”
  • Lombard: “Faro”
  • Luxembourgish: “Faro”
  • Malagasy: “Faro (Portugal)”
  • Malagasy: “Faro”
  • Malay: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Malay: “Faro”
  • Maltese: “Faro”
  • Manx: “Faro, y Phortiugal”
  • Manx: “Faro”
  • Marathi: “फॅरो”
  • Mazanderani: “فارو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Faro”
  • Mingrelian: “ფარუ”
  • Moksha: “Фару”
  • Northern Frisian: “Faro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Faro”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Faro”
  • Norwegian: “Faro”
  • Novial: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Faro”
  • Oromo: “Faro”
  • Ossetian: “Фару”
  • Panjabi: “ਫਾਰੋ”
  • Persian: “فارو”
  • Polish: “Faro”
  • Portuguese: “Faro”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Faro”
  • Pushto: “فارو”
  • Romanian: “Faro”
  • Russian: “Фару”
  • Scots: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Scots: “Faro”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Faro”
  • Serbian: “Фаро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Faro”
  • Silesian: “Faro”
  • Sinhala: “ෆාරෝ”
  • Slovak: “Faro”
  • Slovenian: “Faro”
  • Somali: “Faro”
  • Spanish: “Faro”
  • Swahili: “Faro”
  • Swedish: “Faro”
  • Tajik: “Фару”
  • Tamil: “பிஹாரோ”
  • Tatar: “Фару”
  • Telugu: “ఫారో”
  • Tetum: “Faro”
  • Thai: “ฟารู”
  • Turkish: “Faro”
  • Ukrainian: “Фару”
  • Urdu: “فارو، پرتگال”
  • Urdu: “فارو”
  • Uzbek: “Faro”
  • Venetian: “Faro”
  • Vietnamese: “Faro”
  • Volapük: “Faro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Faro”
  • Welsh: “Faro”
  • Wu Chinese: “法鲁”

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