Lisbon

Lisbon is the capital of situated on seven hills at the wide mouth of the river Tagus where it meets the Atlantic Ocean. With 545,000 residents in the city and 3.0 million in the Lisbon Region and a thriving mix of Portugal's rich history and vivid…
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is a district in Lisbon, . Beyond itself, the district includes other neighbourhoods, notably Chiado and Príncipe Real.

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The is the oldest neighborhood of Lisbon, spreading on the slope between the and the Tagus river. The district includes the freguesias of São Miguel, Santo Estêvão, São Vicente de Fora and part of the two streets, "Freguesia da Sé: Rua do Barão" and "Rua São João da Praça".

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is a district in Lisbon, . The has many squares and monuments, offering numerous photo opportunities. The area suffered devastating destruction in the Great Earthquake on All Saints' Day, 1 November 1755.

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Explore places such as Belém and North Lisbon.

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is a district in Lisbon, .

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Northern Lisbon is a district covering a large portion of 's capital city. Most of the sights, restaurants, and hotels are in and around the areas known as Avenidas Novas, Sete Rios, and Campolide.

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is a district in Lisbon, . The "Park of the Nations" was built from scratch for Expo '98 in the northeastern end of Lisbon. After the Expo, many of the impressive constructions and decorations were kept, while new residential…

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castle of São Jorge and Praça do Comércio.

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São Jorge Castle, sometimes known in English as Saint George's Castle, is a historic castle in the capital of Lisbon, located in the freguesia of Santa Maria Maior.

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The , more commonly known in Portuguese as Terreiro do Paço (, is a large, harbour-facing plaza in 's capital, Lisbon, and is one of the largest in Portugal, with an area of 175 by 175 m, that is, 30,600 m2.

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The Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, also known in English as the , is a national art museum located in Lisbon. With over 40,000 items spanning a vast collection of painting, sculpture, goldware, furniture, textiles, ceramics, and prints, MNAA is one of the most visited museums in Portugal.

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Nearby places include Almada and Arroios.

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is a city of 174,000 people on the in the region on the south bank of the Tagus river, just across from Lisbon.

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is a freguesia in the municipality of Lisbon, the capital of . Located in the city centre with an area of 2.13km2 in which 33,302 reside, the civil parish was a result of the 2012 administrative reform, which fused São Jorge de , Anjos and Pena and takes its name from the typical in the northern part of its territory.

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is a freguesia and typical quarter of Lisbon, the capital city of . Located in the historic center of Lisbon, is north of , east of , south of , and west of .

Lisbon

Latitude
38.7078° or 38° 42′ 28″ north
Longitude
-9.1366° or 9° 8′ 12″ west
Population
553,000
Elevation
68 metres (223 feet)
IATA airport code
LIS
United Nations Location Code
PT LIS
Open location code
8CCGPV57+49
Open­Street­Map ID
node 265958490
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2267057
Wiki­data ID
Q597
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Lisbon” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Lisbon”
  • Adyghe: “Лиссабон”
  • Afrikaans: “Lissabon”
  • Albanian: “Lisbona”
  • Amharic: “ሊዝቦን”
  • Arabic: “لشبونة”
  • Aragonese: “Lisbona”
  • Armenian: “Լիզբոն”
  • Armenian: “Լիսաբոն”
  • Arpitan: “Lisbona”
  • Asturian: “Lisboa”
  • Avaric: “Лиссабон”
  • Aymara: “Lisboa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lissabon”
  • Balinese: “Lisbon”
  • Bashkir: “Лиссабон”
  • Basque: “Lisboa”
  • Bavarian: “Lissabon”
  • Belarusian: “Лісабон”
  • Bengali: “লিসবন”
  • Betawi: “Lisabon”
  • Bosnian: “Lisabon”
  • Breton: “Lisbon”
  • Bulgarian: “Лисабон”
  • Burmese: “လစ်စဘွန်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Lisboa”
  • Cebuano: “Lisboa”
  • Central Bikol: “Lisboa, Portugal”
  • Central Bikol: “Lisboa”
  • Central Kurdish: “لیسبۆن”
  • Chavacano: “Lisboa”
  • Chechen: “Лиссабон”
  • Chinese: “Lisboa”
  • Chinese: “里斯本”
  • Church Slavic: “Лисабонъ”
  • Chuvash: “Лиссабон”
  • Cornish: “Lisboa”
  • Corsican: “Lisbona”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Lisbon”
  • Croatian: “Lisabon”
  • Czech: “Lisabon”
  • Danish: “Lissabon”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lizbon”
  • Dutch: “Lissabon”
  • Eastern Mari: “Лиссабон”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليشبوا”
  • Erzya: “Лиссабон ош”
  • Esperanto: “Lisbono”
  • Estonian: “Lissabon”
  • Ewe: “Lisbon”
  • Extremaduran: “Lisboa”
  • Faroese: “Lisboa”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Lisbon”
  • Finnish: “Lissabon”
  • French: “Lisbonne”
  • Friulian: “Lisbone”
  • Fulah: “Lisbon”
  • Gagauz: “Lizbon”
  • Galician: “Lisboa”
  • Georgian: “ლისაბონი”
  • German: “Lissabon”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lisbon”
  • Gilaki: “ليسبؤن”
  • Goan Konkani: “Lisboa”
  • Gothic: “𐌻𐌹𐍃𐌱𐍉𐌰”
  • Greek: “Λισαβόνα”
  • Greek: “Λισαβώνα”
  • Greek: “Ολισσιπόνα”
  • Guarani: “Lisimbã”
  • Gujarati: “લિસ્બન”
  • Haitian: “Lisbòn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lisboa”
  • Hausa: “Lisbon”
  • Hawaiian: “Likepona”
  • Hebrew: “ליסבון”
  • Hindi: “लिस्बन”
  • Hungarian: “Lisszabon”
  • Icelandic: “Lissabon”
  • Ido: “Lisboa”
  • Iloko: “Lisbon”
  • Indonesian: “Lisboa”
  • Indonesian: “Lisbon”
  • Interlingua: “Lisbona”
  • Interlingue: “Lisboa”
  • Irish: “Liospóin”
  • Italian: “Lisbona”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Lizban”
  • Japanese: “リスボン”
  • Javanese: “Lisabon”
  • Kabiyè: “Lisbooni”
  • Kabyle: “Lisbun”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿ‍ಸ್ಬನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಸ್ಬನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಸ್‍ಬೊನ್”
  • Kashubian: “Lisabón”
  • Kazakh: “Лиссабон қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Лиссабон”
  • Kirghiz: “Лиссабон”
  • Komering: “Lisbon”
  • Komi: “Лиссабон”
  • Korean: “리스본”
  • Kotava: “Lisboa”
  • Kurdish: “Lîsabon”
  • Kurdish: “Lîzbon”
  • Ladino: “Lisboa”
  • Lao: “ລີຊະບົນ”
  • Latin: “Felicitas Julia Olissipo” (historical)
  • Latin: “Felicitas Julia” (historical)
  • Latin: “Lisbonum”
  • Latin: “Olisipo” (historical)
  • Latin: “Olissipo” (historical)
  • Latin: “Olissipona”
  • Latvian: “Lisabona”
  • Ligurian: “Lisbonn-a”
  • Limburgan: “Lissabon”
  • Lingala: “Lisboa”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Lisboa”
  • Literary Chinese: “里斯本”
  • Lithuanian: “Lisabona”
  • Livvi: “Lissabon”
  • Lojban: “lisboa”
  • Lombard: “Lisbuna”
  • Low German: “Lissabon”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Lisabon”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lissabon”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Lisabon”
  • Macedonian: “Лисабон”
  • Magahi: “लिस्बन”
  • Malagasy: “Lisboa”
  • Malagasy: “Lisbon”
  • Malay: “Lisbon”
  • Malayalam: “ലിസ്‌ബൺ”
  • Maltese: “Liżbona”
  • Manx: “Lisboa”
  • Manx: “Lisbon”
  • Maori: “Rihipone”
  • Maori: “Rīpene”
  • Marathi: “लिस्बन”
  • Marshallese: “Lisbon”
  • Mazanderani: “لیسبون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lī-sṳ̆-buōng”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lisboa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lisboa”
  • Minangkabau: “Lisbon”
  • Mingrelian: “ლისაბონი”
  • Mirandese: “Lhisboua”
  • Mirandese: “Lisboua”
  • Moksha: “Лисабон”
  • Mongolian: “Лиссабон”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لشبونة”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليشبونة”
  • Narom: “Lîbouonne”
  • Nauru: “Lisbon”
  • Nepali: “लिस्बन”
  • Newari: “लिस्बोन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lisabon”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lissabon”
  • Northern Sami: “Lisboa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lisboa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lissabon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lisboa”
  • Norwegian: “Lisboa”
  • Novial: “Lisboa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lisbona”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܠܫܒܘܢܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Olisipo”
  • Oriya: “ଲିସବନ”
  • Ossetian: “Лиссабон”
  • Pampanga: “Lisbon”
  • Pangasinan: “Lisbon”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਿਸਬਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Lisboa”
  • Persian: “لیسبون”
  • Picard: “Lisbonne”
  • Piemontese: “Lisbon-a”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Lisboa”
  • Polish: “Lizbona”
  • Portuguese: “Lisboa”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Lisboa”
  • Quechua: “Lisboa”
  • Romanian: “Lisabona”
  • Romansh: “Lisbona”
  • Romansh: “Lissabon”
  • Rundi: “Lisboa”
  • Russian: “Лисабон”
  • Russian: “Лисбоа”
  • Russian: “Лиссабон”
  • Russian: “Лишбоа”
  • Rusyn: “Лисабон”
  • Sakizaya: “Li-se-pen”
  • Samogitian: “Lisabuona”
  • Sanskrit: “लिस्बन”
  • Sardinian: “Lisbona”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Lissabon”
  • Scots: “Lisbon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lisbon”
  • Serbian: “Лисабон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lisabon”
  • Shona: “Lisbon”
  • Sicilian: “Lisbona”
  • Silesian: “Lizbůna”
  • Sindhi: “لزبن”
  • Sinhala: “ලිස්බනය”
  • Slovak: “Lisabon”
  • Slovenian: “Lizbona”
  • Somali: “Lissabon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ليسبون”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیسبون”
  • Southern Sotho: “Lisbon”
  • Spanish: “Lisboa”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Lisbon”
  • Swahili: “Lisbon”
  • Swedish: “Lissabon”
  • Swiss German: “Lissabon”
  • Sylheti: “ꠟꠤꠍꠛꠘ”
  • Tagalog: “Lisboa”
  • Tahitian: “Lisboa”
  • Tajik: “Лиссабон”
  • Talysh: “Lissabon”
  • Tamil: “லிஸ்பன்”
  • Tatar: “Лиссабон”
  • Telugu: “లిస్బన్”
  • Tetum: “Lizboa”
  • Thai: “ลิสบอน”
  • Tibetan: “ལི་སི་བཱོན།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Lissabon”
  • Tumbuka: “Lisbon”
  • Turkish: “Lizbon”
  • Turkmen: “Lissabon”
  • Twi: “Lisbon”
  • Tyap: “Li̱si̱bwuon”
  • Udmurt: “Лиссабон”
  • Uighur: “لىسابون”
  • Uighur: “لىسبون”
  • Ukrainian: “Лісабон”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lisabon”
  • Urdu: “لزبن”
  • Uzbek: “Lissabon”
  • Venetian: “Lisbona”
  • Venetian: “Łisbóna”
  • Veps: “Lissabon”
  • Vietnamese: “Lisboa”
  • Vlaams: “Lissabon”
  • Vlax Romani: “Lisbon”
  • Volapük: “Lisboa”
  • Võro: “Lissabon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lisboa”
  • Welsh: “Lisboa”
  • Welsh: “Lisbon”
  • Western Armenian: “Լիզպոն”
  • Western Frisian: “Lissabon”
  • Western Mari: “Лиссабон”
  • Western Panjabi: “لزبن”
  • Wolof: “Lisbon”
  • Wu Chinese: “列寺博”
  • Wu Chinese: “里斯本”
  • Xhosa: “ILisbon”
  • Yakut: “Лиссабон”
  • Yiddish: “ליזבאָן”
  • Yiddish: “ליסאַבאָן”
  • Yiddish: “ליסבאן”
  • Yoruba: “Lisbon”
  • Yue Chinese: “里斯本”
  • Zeeuws: “Lissabon”
  • Zulu: “i-Lisbon”
  • “Lisabuona”
  • “Lisboa”
  • “Lissabon”
  • “ma tomo Lipowa”
  • “Q597”

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