Ponta Delgada

Ponta Delgada is the largest city in the archipelago. It is on the island of , and was home to 67,000 people in 2021. It is an important administrative, industrial and agricultural centre, and the home of the University of the Azores.
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  • Type: City with 40,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in Azores, Portugal
  • Also known as: “Ponta Delgada Municipality”
Photo: Bo Mertz, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gruta do Carvão and Azorean Pineapple Plantation.

Cave
The is an ancient lava tube located on the outskirts of the municipality of Ponta Delgada on the island of in the archipelago of the .

Photo: Julesvernex2, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Castle
Photo: Zeorymer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fajã de Cima and Fajã de Baixo.

Village
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada in the archipelago of the . is located in the Picos region in the western part of the island of São Miguel, north of central Ponta Delgada.

Village
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada in the archipelago of the . The population in 2011 was 5,050, in an area of 4.06 km2.

Ponta Delgada

Latitude
37.7393° or 37° 44′ 22″ north
Longitude
-25.669° or 25° 40′ 8″ west
Population
40,700
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
Open location code
899PP8QJ+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25270682
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8010687
Wiki­data ID
Q208149
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Ponta Delgada” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Albanian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Arabic: “بنتة دلغادة”
  • Arabic: “بُنتة دِلغَادة”
  • Arabic: “بونتا ديلغادا”
  • Armenian: “Պոնտա Դելգադա”
  • Asturian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ponta-Delqada”
  • Basque: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Belarusian: “Понта-Дэлгада”
  • Bengali: “পোন্তা দেলগাদা”
  • Bosnian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Breton: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Bulgarian: “Понта Делгада”
  • Catalan: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Cebuano: “Ponta Delgada (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Chechen: “Понта-Делгада”
  • Chinese: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Chinese: “德尔加达港”
  • Chinese: “朋達德加達”
  • Chinese: “蓬塔德尔加达”
  • Chinese: “蓬塔德爾加達”
  • Czech: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Danish: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Danish: “Ponto Delgada”
  • Dutch: “Ponta Delgada (Sao Miguel)”
  • Dutch: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Esperanto: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Estonian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Finnish: “Ponta Delgada”
  • French: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Galician: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Georgian: “პონტა-დელგადა”
  • German: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Greek: “Πόντα Ντελγάδα”
  • Greek: “Πόντα Ντελγκάντα”
  • Gujarati: “પોન્ટા ડેલગાડા”
  • Hebrew: “פונטה דלגדה”
  • Hindi: “पोंटा डेलगाडा”
  • Hungarian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Icelandic: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Indonesian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Irish: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Italian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Japanese: “ポンタ・デルガーダ”
  • Japanese: “ポンタ・デルガダ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೊಂಟ ಡೆಲ್ಗಾಡಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Понта-Делгада қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Понта-Делгада”
  • Korean: “폰타델가다”
  • Latvian: “Pontadelgada”
  • Lithuanian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Lombard: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Macedonian: “Понта Делгада”
  • Malay: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Marathi: “पोंटा डेलगाडा”
  • Mazanderani: “پونتا دلگادا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Mongolian: “Понта-Делгада”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Norwegian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Novial: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ponta Delgada”
  • Ossetian: “Понтæ-Делгадæ”
  • Persian: “پونتا دلگادا”
  • Polish: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Portuguese: “Concelho de Ponta Delgada”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Ponta Delgada”
  • Portuguese: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Romanian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Russian: “Понта-Делгада”
  • Sardinian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Scots: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Serbian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Serbian: “Понта Делгада”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Silesian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Sinhala: “පොන්ටා ඩෙල්ගඩා”
  • Sinhala: “පොන්ටා දෙල්ගාඩා”
  • Slovenian: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Spanish: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Swedish: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Ponta Delgada”
  • Tajik: “Понта Делгада”
  • Tamil: “பான்ட டெல்காடா”
  • Tatar: “Понта-Делгада”
  • Telugu: “పోంటా డెల్గాడా”
  • Thai: “ปงตาแดลกาดา”
  • Turkish: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Turkmen: “Ponta-Delgada”
  • Ukrainian: “Понта-Делгада”
  • Urdu: “پونتا دیلجادا”
  • Uzbek: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Vietnamese: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Volapük: “Ponta Delgada”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ponta Delgada”
  • “Ponta Delgada”

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