Madeira
Madeira is a sub-tropical archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and is an autonomous region of Portugal. The archipelago is made up of two populated islands, Madeira and Porto Santo, and two groups of unpopulated islands called the 1 Desertas and Selvagens Islands.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Funchal and Câmara de Lobos.
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Santana and Machico.
Santa Cruz
Porto da Cruz
Porto da Cruz is a village on the northeast corner of the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Pico Ruivo and Pico das Torres.
Pico das Torres
Peak
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Curral das Freiras and Serra de Água.
Madeira
- Type: Archipelago
- Description: Autonomous Region of Portugal in the archipelago of Madeira
- Also known as: “archipiélago”, “Archipielago de Madeira”, “Archipiélago de Madeira”, “Arquipélago da Madeira”, “Arquipélago de Madeira”, “Arxipèlag de Madeira”, “Aŭtonoma Regiono de Madejro”, “Autonomous Region of Madeira”, “Avtonomna regija Madeira”, “Daerah Otonom Madeira”, “Funchalin piiri”, “Illa de Madeira”, “Illas de Madeira”, “Illes Madeira”, “Insula Madeira”, “Insulae Madeirae”, “Insulele Madeira”, “Isla Madeira”, “Islas Madeira”, “Isola di Madera”, “Isole Madeira”, “Isole Madera”, “Madeira (gebied)”, “Madeira Autonomous Region”, “Madeira Islands”, “Madeira ostrva”, “Madeira Özerk Bölgesi”, “Madeira saared”, “Madeira saarestik”, “Madeira Uharteak”, “Madeiraøyane”, “Madeirense”, “Madeirenses”, “Madeiros salos”, “Madeirské souostroví”, “Madêra”, “Mga Pulo ng Madeira”, “Pearl of the Atlantic”, “Província da Madeira”, “Purpurové ostrovy”, “Quần đảo Madeira”, “R a M”, “Região autónoma da Madeira”, “Região autónoma de Madeira”, “região NUTS 3 de Portugal”, “região NUTS III de Portugal”, “Regió autònoma de Madeira”, “Region Autonoma de Madeira”, “Region Autónoma de Madeira”, “Región Autónoma de Madeira”, “région autonome de Madère”, “région de Madère”, “Región Outònoma de Madeira”, “souostroví Madeira”, “Ynysoedd Madeira”, “Μαδέιρα”, “Архіпелаг Мадейра”, “Аутономна регија Мадеира”, “Мадера”, “איי מדיירה”, “איי מדירה”, “מחוז מדיירה”, “جزایر مادیرا”, “جزایر مدیرا”, “جزيرة ماديرا”, “قائمة جزر جزر ماديرا”, “مادیعرا”, “مادیعیرہ”, “معادیرا”, “අත්ලාන්තික් සාගරයේ මුතු ඇටය”, “මැඩෙයිරා හි ස්වයං පාලන කලාපය”, “대서양의 진주”, “마데이라 자치구”, “マデイラ自治地域”, and “マデイラ自治州”
- Categories: autonomous region of Portugal, integral overseas territory, subregion of Portugal, electoral unit, locality, and landform
- Location: Islands of the Atlantic Ocean
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Latitude
32.741° or 32° 44′ 28″ north
Longitude
-16.968° or 16° 58′ 5″ west
Population
268,000
Elevation
1,103 metres (3,619 feet)
Established
April 30th, 1976
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Madeira” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Madeiraeilande”
- Albanian: “Ishujt Madeira”
- Albanian: “Ishujt Medeira”
- Amharic: “ማደይራ”
- Arabic: “ماديرا”
- Aragonese: “Madeira”
- Armenian: “Մադեյրա”
- Assamese: “মাদেইৰা”
- Asturian: “Madeira”
- Azerbaijani: “Madeyra”
- Bashkir: “Мадейра”
- Basque: “Madeira”
- Bavarian: “Madeira”
- Belarusian: “Мадэйра”
- Bengali: “মাডেইরা”
- Betawi: “Madéra”
- Bosnian: “Madeira”
- Breton: “Madeira”
- Bulgarian: “Мадейра”
- Burmese: “မဒီးရကျွန်းများ”
- Catalan: “Madeira”
- Cebuano: “Madeira”
- Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی مادیرا”
- Central Kurdish: “مادێرا”
- Chechen: “Мадейра”
- Chinese: “馬德拉”
- Chinese: “馬德拉自治區”
- Chinese: “马德拉群岛”
- Chinese: “马德拉自治区”
- Chuvash: “Мадейра”
- Cornish: “Madeira”
- Corsican: “Madera”
- Croatian: “Madeira”
- Czech: “Madeira”
- Danish: “Madeira”
- Dimli (individual language): “Madeira”
- Dutch: “Madeira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماديرا”
- Esperanto: “Madejro”
- Estonian: “Madeira”
- Extremaduran: “Madeira”
- Faroese: “Madeira”
- Finnish: “Madeira”
- French: “Madère”
- Gagauz: “Madeira adaları”
- Galician: “Rexión Autónoma da Madeira”
- Galician: “Rexión Autónoma de Madeira”
- Georgian: “მადეირა”
- German: “Autonome Region Madeira”
- German: “Madeira”
- Greek: “Μαδέρα”
- Hakka Chinese: “Madeira”
- Hausa: “Madeira”
- Hebrew: “מדיירה”
- Hindi: “मदीरा”
- Hindi: “मदेरा”
- Hungarian: “Madeira-szigetek”
- Hungarian: “Madeira”
- Icelandic: “Madeiraeyjar”
- Ido: “Madeira”
- Igbo: “Madeira”
- Inari Sami: “Madeira”
- Indonesian: “Madeira”
- Interlingua: “Madeira”
- Interlingue: “Madeira”
- Irish: “Maidéara”
- Irish: “Réigiún Féinrialaithe Mhaidéara”
- Italian: “Madera”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Madeira”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Madiera”
- Japanese: “マデイラ諸島”
- Javanese: “Madeira”
- Kashubian: “Madéra”
- Kazakh: “Мадейра”
- Kirghiz: “Мадейра аралдар тобу”
- Kirghiz: “Мадейра”
- Korean: “마데이라 제도”
- Ladino: “Madeira”
- Lao: “ມາເດຍຣາ”
- Latin: “Insulae Materiae”
- Latvian: “Madeira”
- Ligurian: “Madeira”
- Limburgan: “Madeira”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Isolas Madera”
- Lithuanian: “Madeira”
- Lithuanian: “Madeiros autonominis regionas”
- Low German: “Madeira”
- Luxembourgish: “Madeira”
- Macedonian: “Мадејра”
- Malagasy: “Madeira”
- Malagasy: “Madera”
- Malay: “Madeira”
- Marathi: “मादेईरा”
- Mazanderani: “مادیرا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Madeira”
- Mingrelian: “მადეირა”
- Mirandese: “Region Outónoma de la Madeira”
- Mongolian: “Мадейра”
- Northern Frisian: “Regiuun Madeira”
- Northern Sami: “Madeira”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Madeira”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Madeira”
- Norwegian: “Madeira”
- Novial: “Madeira”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Archipèla de Madèira”
- Oromo: “Madeira”
- Ossetian: “Мадейрæ”
- Panjabi: “ਮਾਡੇਰਾ”
- Papiamento: “Madeira”
- Persian: “مادیرا”
- Polish: “Madera”
- Portuguese: “Madeira”
- Portuguese: “Região Autónoma da Madeira”
- Portuguese: “Região Autônoma da Madeira”
- Pushto: “مادیرا”
- Quechua: “Madeira”
- Romanian: “Madeira”
- Russian: “Мадейра”
- Sardinian: “Madeira”
- Scots: “Madeira”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Madeira”
- Serbian: “Мадеира”
- Serbian: “Мадејра”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Madeira”
- Shan: “မတီးရႃႇ”
- Sicilian: “Madera”
- Sinhala: “මැඩෙයිරා”
- Skolt Sami: “Madeira”
- Slovak: “Madeira”
- Slovenian: “Madeira”
- Somali: “Madeira”
- Spanish: “Madeira”
- Sundanese: “Madeira”
- Swahili: “Visiwa vya Madeira”
- Swedish: “Madeira”
- Swiss German: “Madeira”
- Tagalog: “Madeira”
- Tajik: “Мадейра”
- Tamil: “மதீரா”
- Tatar: “Мадейра”
- Telugu: “మదీరా దీవులు”
- Thai: “มาเดรา”
- Tumbuka: “Madeira District”
- Turkish: “Madeira Adaları”
- Turkish: “Madeira”
- Ukrainian: “Мадейра”
- Urdu: “مادیرا”
- Urdu: “مادیعیرا”
- Uzbek: “Madeyra”
- Vietnamese: “Madeira”
- Waray (Philippines): “Madeira”
- Welsh: “Madeira”
- Western Frisian: “Madeara”
- Western Mari: “Мадейра”
- Western Panjabi: “مادیرا”
- Wu Chinese: “马德拉”
- Yakut: “Мадейра”
- Yoruba: “Madeira”
- Yue Chinese: “馬德拉”
- Zeeuws: “Madeira”
- Zulu: “IMadira”
- “ma Matela”
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