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Porto District

Porto

Porto is 's second largest city and the capital of the , and a busy industrial and commercial centre. The city isn't very populous, but the Porto metropolitan area has some 1.7 million inhabitants in a 50-km radius, with cities like , , and .
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  • Type: City with 238,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Porto Municipality”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of São Francisco and Palácio da Bolsa.

Museum
Photo: João Carvalho, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of Saint Francis is the most prominent Gothic monument in Porto, , being also noted for its outstanding Baroque inner decoration. It is located in the historic centre of the city, declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Museum
Photo: Manuel de Sousa, Public domain.
The Stock Exchange Palace is a historical building in Porto, . The palace was built in the 19th century by the city's Commercial Association in Neoclassical style.

Bridge
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The Luiz I Bridge, commonly known as , is a double-deck metal arch bridge that spans the river between the cities of Porto and in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vila Nova de Gaia and Paranhos.

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is a city the region of , immediately facing Porto across the Duoro river. The two cities form the core of a contiguous metropolitan area.

Suburb
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is a parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 44,298, in an area of 7.17 km². Local landmarks include the Areosa Church, various faculties of the University of Porto and the sprawling Hospital de São João.

Suburb
is a former civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish e São Pedro da Afurada. The population in 2011 was 30,146, in an area of 6.91 km².

Porto

Latitude
41.1502° or 41° 9′ 1″ north
Longitude
-8.6104° or 8° 36′ 37″ west
Population
238,000
Elevation
91 metres (299 feet)
IATA airport code
OPO
United Nations Location Code
PT OPO
Open location code
8CHH592Q+3V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2986300166
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2735943
Wiki­data ID
Q36433
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Porto” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Porto”
  • Albanian: “Porto”
  • Algerian Arabic: “پورتو”
  • Amharic: “ፖርቱ”
  • Arabic: “بورتو”
  • Aragonese: “Porto”
  • Armenian: “Պորտու”
  • Asturian: “Oporto”
  • Asturian: “Porto”
  • Asturian: “Portu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Porto”
  • Azerbaijani: “Portu”
  • Balinese: “Porto”
  • Basque: “Oporto”
  • Basque: “Porto”
  • Belarusian: “Апорта”
  • Belarusian: “Порту”
  • Bengali: “ওপোর্তু”
  • Bengali: “পোর্তু”
  • Bishnupriya: “পর্টো”
  • Bosnian: “Porto”
  • Breton: “Porto”
  • Bulgarian: “Опорто”
  • Bulgarian: “Порто”
  • Bulgarian: “Порту”
  • Catalan: “Oporto”
  • Catalan: “Porto”
  • Catalan: “Portus Cale”
  • Cebuano: “Porto (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Porto”
  • Central Kurdish: “پۆرتۆ”
  • Chechen: “Порту”
  • Chinese: “Porto”
  • Chinese: “奧波多”
  • Chinese: “波圖”
  • Chinese: “波多”
  • Chinese: “波多市”
  • Chinese: “波尔图”
  • Chinese: “波爾圖”
  • Chinese: “波爾圖市”
  • Chuvash: “Порту”
  • Cornish: “Porto”
  • Corsican: “Porto”
  • Corsican: “Portu”
  • Croatian: “Oporto”
  • Croatian: “Porto”
  • Czech: “Porto”
  • Danish: “Oporto”
  • Danish: “Porto”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Porto”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Portu”
  • Dutch: “Porto (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Porto”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Porto”
  • Esperanto: “Porto”
  • Estonian: “Porto”
  • Extremaduran: “Oportu”
  • Finnish: “Oporto”
  • Finnish: “Porto”
  • French: “Oporto”
  • French: “Porto”
  • Galician: “Porto, Portugal”
  • Galician: “Porto”
  • Georgian: “პორტო”
  • Georgian: “პორტუ”
  • German: “Porto”
  • Greek: “Πορτο”
  • Greek: “Πόρτο”
  • Gujarati: “પોર્ટો”
  • Haitian: “Pòto”
  • Hausa: “Porto”
  • Hebrew: “אופורטו”
  • Hebrew: “פורטו”
  • Hindi: “पोर्टो”
  • Hungarian: “Porto”
  • Hungarian: “Portó”
  • Icelandic: “Porto”
  • Ido: “Porto”
  • Indonesian: “Oporto”
  • Indonesian: “Porto”
  • Interlingua: “Porto”
  • Interlingue: “Porto”
  • Irish: “Oporto”
  • Irish: “Porto”
  • Italian: “Oporto” (historical)
  • Italian: “Porto”
  • Japanese: “オポルト”
  • Japanese: “ポルト”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Порту”
  • Kirghiz: “Порту”
  • Korean: “뽀르또”
  • Korean: “오포르토”
  • Korean: “오포르투”
  • Korean: “포르토”
  • Korean: “포르투”
  • Ladino: “Oporto”
  • Latin: “Porto”
  • Latin: “Portus Cale”
  • Latvian: “Oportu”
  • Latvian: “Porto”
  • Latvian: “Portu”
  • Lezghian: “Порту”
  • Lithuanian: “Portas”
  • Lithuanian: “Porto”
  • Lombard: “Oporto”
  • Lombard: “Porto”
  • Luxembourgish: “Porto”
  • Macedonian: “Порто”
  • Malay: “Porto, Portugal”
  • Malay: “Porto”
  • Malayalam: “Oporto”
  • Malayalam: “Porto”
  • Malayalam: “ഒപ്പോർട്ടോ”
  • Malayalam: “പോർട്ടോ”
  • Maltese: “Oporto”
  • Maltese: “Porto”
  • Marathi: “पोर्तू”
  • Marathi: “पोर्तो”
  • Mazanderani: “پورتو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Porto”
  • Mingrelian: “პორტუ”
  • Mirandese: “Porto”
  • Mirandese: “Puorto”
  • Mongolian: “Порту”
  • Northern Frisian: “Porto”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oporto”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Porto”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oporto”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Porto”
  • Norwegian: “Porto”
  • Novial: “Porto”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Porto”
  • Ossetian: “Порто”
  • Ossetian: “Порту”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਰਤੋ”
  • Persian: “پورتو”
  • Polish: “Oporto”
  • Polish: “Porto”
  • Portuguese: “Município do Porto”
  • Portuguese: “Oporto”
  • Portuguese: “Porto”
  • Portuguese: “Portucale”
  • Portuguese: “Portus Cale”
  • Quechua: “Porto”
  • Romanian: “Oporto”
  • Romanian: “Porto”
  • Russian: “Опорто”
  • Russian: “Порту”
  • Sardinian: “Porto (Portugallu)”
  • Sardinian: “Porto”
  • Scots: “Porto”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Porto”
  • Serbian: “Порто”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Porto”
  • Silesian: “Porto”
  • Sinhala: “පෝර්ටෝ”
  • Slovak: “Porto”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Porto”
  • Slovenian: “Oporto”
  • Slovenian: “Porto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پورتو”
  • Spanish: “Oporto”
  • Spanish: “Porto”
  • Spanish: “Portucale”
  • Spanish: “Portus Cale”
  • Swahili: “Porto”
  • Swedish: “Oporto”
  • Swedish: “Porto”
  • Tagalog: “Oporto”
  • Tajik: “Порту”
  • Tamil: “போர்டோ”
  • Tatar: “Порту”
  • Telugu: “పోర్టో”
  • Tetum: “Porto”
  • Tetum: “Portu”
  • Thai: “Porto”
  • Thai: “ปอร์ตู”
  • Thai: “ปอร์โต”
  • Thai: “โปร์ตู”
  • Turkish: “Oporto”
  • Turkish: “Porto”
  • Ukrainian: “Порто”
  • Ukrainian: “Порту”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Porto”
  • Urdu: “پورٹو”
  • Uzbek: “Oporto”
  • Uzbek: “Portu”
  • Venetian: “Porto”
  • Vietnamese: “Oporto”
  • Vietnamese: “Porto (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Porto”
  • Vlax Romani: “Porto”
  • Volapük: “Porto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oporto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Porto”
  • Welsh: “Porto”
  • Western Armenian: “Պորտու”
  • Western Frisian: “Porto”
  • Western Panjabi: “پورتو”
  • Wu Chinese: “波尔图”
  • Yue Chinese: “波圖”
  • “Oporto”
  • “Porto”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Porto”. Photo: Olegivvit, CC BY 2.5.