Petrolina

Petrolina is a city in the , in the southernmost point of the state of , in . With over 340,000 inhabitants, it is one of the largest cities of the , a mostly semi-arid and sparsely populated region.
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  • Type: City with 387,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Pernambuco State, Brazil
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sacred Heart Cathedral, Petrolina.

Church
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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 located in the center of the city of Petrolina, in the state of in the northeastern region of the South American country of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Juazeiro.

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, formerly also known as Joazeiro, is a municipality in the state of , in the of Brazil. The city is twinned with Petrolina, in the state of .

Petrolina

Latitude
-9.3817° or 9° 22′ 54″ south
Longitude
-40.4969° or 40° 29′ 49″ west
Population
387,000
Elevation
383 metres (1,257 feet)
IATA airport code
PNZ
United Nations Location Code
BR PNZ
Open location code
682XJG93+86
Open­Street­Map ID
node 321154272
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3392242
Wiki­data 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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