Terceira
Terceira is in the Azores archipelago, an autonomous region of Portugal, in the Atlantic Ocean. Right off the airplane, all that can be seen are luscious green scenery, white houses, and hilltop after hilltop of true Portuguese culture.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Angra do Heroísmo and Praia da Vitória.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Caldeira de Guilherme Moniz and Furnas do Enxofre.
Caldeira de Guilherme Moniz
Volcano
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
Terceira
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Azores archipelago
- Also known as: “Illa de Terceira”, “Illa Terceira”, “Isla de Terceira”, “Isla Tercera”, “Isola Terceira”, “Terceira Island”, “Terceire”, “Terceirense”, “Tercera”, “ടെർസീറ”, and “테르세이라”
- Category: landform
- Location: Posto Santo, Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Azores, Islands of the Atlantic Ocean
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.7281° or 38° 43′ 41″ north
Longitude
-27.2185° or 27° 13′ 7″ west
Population
54,600
Elevation
614 metres (2,014 feet)
IATA airport code
TER
UN/LOCODE
PT TER
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Terceira” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة تيرسيرا”
- Basque: “Terceira uhartea”
- Basque: “Terceira”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Тэрсейра”
- Belarusian: “Тэрсейра”
- Breton: “Enez Terceira”
- Bulgarian: “Терсейра”
- Catalan: “Terceira”
- Cebuano: “Terceira Island”
- Chinese: “特塞拉岛”
- Chinese: “特塞拉島”
- Croatian: “Terceira”
- Czech: “Terceira”
- Danish: “Terceira”
- Dutch: “Terceira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة تيرسيرا”
- Esperanto: “Triainsulo”
- Estonian: “Terceira”
- Finnish: “Terceira”
- French: “Île de Terceira”
- French: “Terceira”
- Galician: “Terceira”
- German: “Terceira”
- Greek: “Τερσέιρα”
- Hebrew: “טרסיירה”
- Hindi: “ट्रेसिरा द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Terceira”
- Indonesian: “Terceira”
- Italian: “Terceira”
- Japanese: “テルセイラ島”
- Korean: “테르세이라섬”
- Latvian: “Terseira”
- Lithuanian: “Terseira”
- Luxembourgish: “Terceira”
- Macedonian: “Терсеира”
- Malay: “Terceira”
- Malayalam: “ടെർസീറ ദ്വീപ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Terceira”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Terceira”
- Norwegian: “Terceira”
- Persian: “جزیره ترسیرا”
- Polish: “Terceira”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Terceira”
- Portuguese: “Terceira”
- Romanian: “Insula Terceira”
- Russian: “Терсейра”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Terceira”
- Slovenian: “Terceira (otok)”
- Slovenian: “Terceira”
- Spanish: “Isla Terceira”
- Spanish: “Terceira”
- Swahili: “Terceira”
- Swedish: “Terceira”
- Thai: “เกาะตือร์ไซรา”
- Turkish: “Terceira Adası”
- Turkish: “Terceira”
- Ukrainian: “Терсейра”
- Urdu: “ترسسرا جزیرہ”
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