Petrolina
Petrolina is a city in the São Francisco Valley, in the southernmost point of the state of Pernambuco, in Brazil. With over 340,000 inhabitants, it is one of the largest cities of the Northeast's Sertão, a mostly semi-arid and sparsely populated region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Krauser levyl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sacred Heart Cathedral, Petrolina.
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Petrolina
Church
The Sacred Heart Cathedral or Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Christ the King, also Petrolina Cathedral, is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church located in the center of the city of Petrolina, in the state of Pernambuco in the northeastern region of the South American country of Brazil.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Juazeiro.
Juazeiro
Photo: Krauser levyl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Juazeiro, formerly also known as Joazeiro, is a municipality in the state of Bahia, in the northeastern region of Brazil. The city is twinned with Petrolina, in the state of Pernambuco.
Petrolina
- Categories: municipality of Brazil, big city, and locality
- Location: Pernambuco Interior, Pernambuco, Northeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-9.3817° or 9° 22′ 54″ southLongitude
-40.4969° or 40° 29′ 49″ westPopulation
387,000Elevation
383 metres (1,257 feet)IATA airport code
PNZUnited Nations Location Code
BR PNZOpen location code
682XJG93+86OpenStreetMap ID
node 321154272OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3392242Wikidata ID
Q842143
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Petrolina” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بترولينا”
- Basque: “Petrolina”
- Belarusian: “Петраліна”
- Bengali: “পেট্রোলিনা”
- Bishnupriya: “পেট্রোলিনা”
- Catalan: “Petrolina”
- Cebuano: “Petrolina”
- Chechen: “Петролина”
- Chinese: “Petrolina”
- Chinese: “彼得罗利纳”
- Chinese: “彼得羅利納”
- Croatian: “Petrolina”
- Danish: “Petrolina”
- Dutch: “Petrolina”
- Esperanto: “Petrolina”
- Finnish: “Petrolina”
- French: “Petrolina”
- German: “Petrolina”
- Greek: “Πετρολίνα”
- Gujarati: “પેટ્રોલિના”
- Hausa: “Petrolina”
- Hindi: “पेट्रोलीना”
- Hungarian: “Petrolina”
- Icelandic: “Petrolina”
- Ido: “Petrolina”
- Indonesian: “Petrolina”
- Irish: “Petrolina”
- Italian: “Petrolina”
- Japanese: “ペトロリーナ”
- Kannada: “ಪೆಟ್ರೊಲಿನ”
- Kazakh: “Petrolïna”
- Kazakh: “Петролина”
- Kazakh: “پەترولىينا”
- Korean: “페트롤리나”
- Latvian: “Petrolina”
- Lithuanian: “Petrolina”
- Malagasy: “Petrolina”
- Malay: “Petrolina”
- Marathi: “पेट्रोलिना”
- Mazanderani: “پترولینا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Petrolina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Petrolina”
- Norwegian: “Petrolina”
- Ossetian: “Петролинæ”
- Persian: “پترولینا”
- Polish: “Petrolina”
- Portuguese: “Petrolina”
- Romanian: “Petrolina”
- Russian: “Петролина”
- Serbian: “Petrolina”
- Serbian: “Петролина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Petrolina”
- Sinhala: “පෙට්රොලිනා”
- Spanish: “Petrolina”
- Swedish: “Petrolina”
- Tamil: “பெட்ரோலினா”
- Tatar: “Петролина”
- Telugu: “పెట్రోలిన”
- Thai: “เปตรูลีนา”
- Turkish: “Petrolina”
- Ukrainian: “Петроліна”
- Urdu: “پیترولینا”
- Uzbek: “Petrolina”
- Venetian: “Petrolina”
- Vietnamese: “Petrolina”
- Volapük: “Petrolina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Petrolina”
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