Loures
Loures is a city and a municipality in Portugal which is part of the District and Metropolitan area of Lisbon. It is the fifth most populous municipality in the country, with a total population of 201,632.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 43,100 residents
- Description: municipality in Portugal
- Also known as: “Cidade de Loures” and “Loures Municipality”
- Neighbors: Arruda dos Vinhos, Lisbon, Mafra, Odivelas, Sintra, and Vila Franca de Xira
Places of Interest
Highlights include Quinta do Conventinho and Igreja de Santa Maria.
Igreja de Santa Maria
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Igreja de Santa Maria is a church in Portugal. It is classified as a National Monument.
Biblioteca Municipal José Saramago
Library
Photo: Carla Paulino 2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Biblioteca Municipal José Saramago is a library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Frielas and Santo António dos Cavaleiros.
Frielas
Village
Photo: Juntas, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Frielas is a former civil parish in the municipality of Loures, Lisbon District, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Santo António dos Cavaleiros e Frielas.
Santo António dos Cavaleiros
Town
Photo: Ibraim b, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santo António dos Cavaleiros is a town.
Ramada
Town
Ramada is a former civil parish in the municipality of Odivelas, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Ramada e Caneças. It covers an area of 3.86 km² and had a population of 15,770 as of 2001.
Loures
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.8309° or 38° 49′ 51″ northLongitude
-9.1685° or 9° 10′ 6″ westPopulation
43,100Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)Open location code
8CCGRRJJ+8JOpenStreetMap ID
node 25611744OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
6930332Wikidata ID
Q917535
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Loures” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لوريس”
- Asturian: “Loures”
- Basque: “Loures”
- Catalan: “Loures”
- Cebuano: “Loures (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Loures”
- Chechen: “Лореш”
- Chinese: “Loures”
- Chinese: “洛里什”
- Dutch: “Loures”
- Esperanto: “Loures”
- Finnish: “Loures”
- French: “Loures”
- Galician: “Loures”
- Georgian: “ლორეში”
- German: “Loures”
- Irish: “Loures”
- Italian: “Loures”
- Japanese: “ローレシュ”
- Japanese: “ロウレス”
- Korean: “로르스”
- Lombard: “Loures”
- Maltese: “Loures”
- Mazanderani: “لورس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Loures”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Loures”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loures”
- Norwegian: “Loures”
- Novial: “Loures”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Loures”
- Persian: “لورس”
- Polish: “Loures”
- Portuguese: “Loures”
- Portuguese: “Município de Loures”
- Romanian: “Loures”
- Russian: “Лореш”
- Russian: “Лориш”
- Scots: “Loures”
- Spanish: “Loures”
- Swahili: “Loures”
- Swedish: “Loures kommun”
- Swedish: “Loures”
- Tatar: “Лореш”
- Turkish: “Loures”
- Ukrainian: “Лореш”
- Ukrainian: “Лоуреш”
- Venetian: “Loures”
- Vietnamese: “Loures”
- Volapük: “Loures”
- Waray (Philippines): “Loures”
- “Loures”
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