Mafra
Mafra is a city of 77,000 people in Greater Lisbon, Estremadura, Portugal. It is mostly known for the sumptuous Mafra National Palace, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.- Type: Town with 12,300 residents
- Description: municipality of Portugal
- Also known as: “Mafra (Portugal)”, “Mafra Municipality”, “Mafra, Portugal”, and “Município de Mafra”
- Neighbors: Arruda dos Vinhos, Loures, Sintra, Sobral de Monte Agraço, and Torres Vedras
Places of Interest
Highlights: Museu Nacional da Música and Igreja de Santo André.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Igreja Nova.
Mafra
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.937° or 38° 56′ 13″ north
Longitude
-9.3282° or 9° 19′ 42″ west
Population
12,300
Elevation
300 metres (984 feet)
UN/LOCODE
PT MFR
Open location code
8CCGWMPC+QP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Welsh—“Mafra” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Mafra”
- Armenian: “Մաֆրա”
- Basque: “Mafra”
- Belarusian: “Мафра”
- Catalan: “Mafra”
- Cebuano: “Mafra (munisipyo sa Portugal, Distrito de Lisboa, lat 38,94, long -9,33)”
- Cebuano: “Mafra”
- Chechen: “Мафра”
- Chinese: “马夫拉”
- Czech: “Mafra”
- Dutch: “Mafra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مافرا”
- Esperanto: “Mafra”
- French: “Mafra”
- Galician: “Mafra”
- German: “Mafra”
- Greek: “Μάφρα”
- Hebrew: “מפרה”
- Irish: “Mafra”
- Italian: “Mafra”
- Japanese: “マフラ”
- Korean: “마프라”
- Lithuanian: “Mafra”
- Lombard: “Mafra (Portogall)”
- Lombard: “Mafra”
- Malay: “Mafra, Portugal”
- Maltese: “Mafra”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mafra”
- Mirandese: “Mafra (Pertual)”
- Mirandese: “Mafra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mafra”
- Norwegian: “Mafra”
- Novial: “Mafra, Portugal”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mafra”
- Polish: “Mafra”
- Portuguese: “Mafra”
- Russian: “Мафра”
- Serbian: “Мафра”
- Silesian: “Mafra (Portugalijo)”
- Silesian: “Mafra”
- Slovak: “Mafra”
- Spanish: “Mafra”
- Swedish: “Mafra”
- Tatar: “Мафра”
- Turkish: “Mafra”
- Ukrainian: “Мафра”
- Urdu: “مافرا، پرتگال”
- Vietnamese: “Mafra, Bồ Đào Nha”
- Volapük: “Mafra”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mafra”
- Welsh: “Mafra”
- “Mafra”
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Places to explore: Vilãs and Quinta de Baixo.
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