Ponta Delgada
Ponta Delgada is the largest city in the Azores archipelago. It is on the island of São Miguel, 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.
- Type: City with 40,700 residents
- Description: municipality in Azores, Portugal
- Also known as: “Concelho de Ponta Delgada”, “Município de Ponta Delgada”, “Ponta Delgada (Sao Miguel)”, “Ponta Delgada Municipality”, “Ponto Delgada”, “Понта-Делгада қаласы”, “පොන්ටා දෙල්ගාඩා”, “ポンタ・デルガーダ”, and “德尔加达港”
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Gruta do Carvão and Azorean Pineapple Plantation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fajã de Baixo and Fajã de Cima.
Fajã de Baixo
Village
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.Fajã de Cima
Village
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.Ponta Delgada
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: São Miguel, Azores, Islands of the Atlantic Ocean
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
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Wikidata ID
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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: “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”
- 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・デルガダ”
- Kannada: “ಪೊಂಟ ಡೆಲ್ಗಾಡಾ”
- 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: “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”
- 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”
- Ukrainian: “Понта-Делґада”
- Urdu: “پونتا دیلجادا”
- Uzbek: “Ponta Delgada”
- Vietnamese: “Ponta Delgada”
- Volapük: “Ponta Delgada”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ponta Delgada”
- “Ponta Delgada”
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