Minho
Minho is a province of Northern Portugal. On the northernmost Atlantic tip of the country, Minho borders the Spanish region of Galicia, sharing with it many affinities in geography, tradition, people and language.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Braga and Guimarães.
Destinations to Discover
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Ponte de Lima
Ponte de Lima is a town on the banks of the River Lima, in Minho, in Viana do Castelo district.
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Minho
- Type: Region with 1,090,000 residents
- Description: former Portuguese province (1936-1976)
- Also known as: “Minho (kraina)”, “Minho (maakunta)”, “Minho Province”, “Vinho Verde”, “मिन्हो प्रांत”, and “ミーニョ県”
- Categories: former Portuguese province, former administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Northern Portugal, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
41.736° or 41° 44′ 10″ north
Longitude of center
-8.3461° or 8° 20′ 46″ west
Population
1,090,000
Elevation
378 metres (1,240 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=region
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Ukrainian—“Minho” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Minho”
- Breton: “Proviñs Minho”
- Catalan: “Minho”
- Catalan: “Província de Minho”
- Chinese: “米尼奥省”
- Chinese: “米尼奧省”
- Croatian: “Minho”
- Dutch: “Minho”
- Finnish: “Minho”
- French: “Minho”
- Galician: “Miño”
- Galician: “Provincia de Miño”
- Georgian: “მინიუ”
- German: “Minho”
- Hindi: “मिन्हो”
- Hungarian: “Minho”
- Italian: “Minho”
- Japanese: “ミーニュ”
- Latvian: “Miņu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Minho”
- Ossetian: “Минью”
- Polish: “Minho”
- Portuguese: “Minho”
- Portuguese: “Província do Minho”
- Russian: “Минью”
- Slovenian: “Minho”
- Spanish: “Minho”
- Spanish: “Miño”
- Swedish: “Minho”
- Ukrainian: “Мінью”
- Ukrainian: “Міню”
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