Brazil
Northeast
Piauí

Teresina

Teresina is the capital of the State of Piaui, . It is a hot, sleepy, and unpretentious town. It is not a coastal city and it has a small-town feeling.
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  • Type: City with 866,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Piauí state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Poti”, “Therezina”, and “Vila Nova do Poti”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Teresina Shopping and Estádio Lindolfo Monteiro.

Shopping center
Photo: Amancio do Compromisso, CC BY 4.0.
is a shopping center.

Stadium
is a in Teresina, . It has a capacity of 15,269 spectators.

Aerodrome
Photo: Ricardo630, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Teresina–Senador Petrônio Portella Airport is the airport serving Teresina, . Since December 22, 1999 it is named after Petrônio Portella Nunes a former mayor of Teresina, governor of , senator and minister of justice. It is operated by CCR.

Teresina

Latitude
-5.0875° or 5° 5′ 15″ south
Longitude
-42.805° or 42° 48′ 18″ west
Population
866,000
Elevation
87 metres (285 feet)
IATA airport code
THE
United Nations Location Code
BR THE
Open location code
686VW57W+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 320661313
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3386496
Wiki­data ID
Q165341
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Teresina” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تيريسينا”
  • Aragonese: “Teresina”
  • Armenian: “Թերեզինա”
  • Armenian: “Տերեզինա”
  • Asturian: “Teresina”
  • Aymara: “Teresina”
  • Basque: “Teresina”
  • Belarusian: “Тэрэзіна”
  • Belarusian: “Тэрэзына”
  • Bengali: “তেরেসিনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “টেরেসিনা”
  • Bulgarian: “Терезина”
  • Catalan: “Teresina”
  • Cebuano: “Teresina (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Teresina”
  • Chinese: “Teresina”
  • Chinese: “特雷西納”
  • Chinese: “特雷西纳”
  • Czech: “Teresina”
  • Danish: “Teresina”
  • Dutch: “Teresina”
  • Esperanto: “Teresina”
  • Estonian: “Teresina”
  • Finnish: “Teresina”
  • Finnish: “Theresina”
  • French: “Teresina”
  • Galician: “Teresina”
  • Georgian: “ტერეზინა”
  • German: “Teresina”
  • Greek: “Τερεζίνα”
  • Guarani: “Teresina”
  • Gujarati: “ટેરેસિના”
  • Hebrew: “תרזינה”
  • Hindi: “टेरेसीना”
  • Hungarian: “Teresina”
  • Ido: “Teresina”
  • Indonesian: “Teresina”
  • Interlingua: “Teresina”
  • Irish: “Teresina”
  • Italian: “Teresina”
  • Japanese: “テレジーナ”
  • Japanese: “テレジナ”
  • Kannada: “ತೆರೇಸಿನಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Terezïna”
  • Kazakh: “Терезина”
  • Kazakh: “تەرەزىينا”
  • Korean: “테레지나”
  • Latvian: “Terezina”
  • Lithuanian: “Teresina”
  • Lithuanian: “Terezina”
  • Lombard: “Teresina”
  • Lombard: “Villa Nova do Poty”
  • Malagasy: “Teresina”
  • Malay: “Teresina”
  • Marathi: “तेरेसिना”
  • Mazanderani: “ترسینا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Teresina”
  • Northern Frisian: “Teresina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Teresina”
  • Norwegian: “Teresina”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Teresina”
  • Ossetian: “Терезинæ”
  • Persian: “ترسینا”
  • Polish: “Teresina”
  • Portuguese: “Teresina”
  • Quechua: “Teresina”
  • Romanian: “Teresina”
  • Russian: “Teresina”
  • Russian: “Терезина”
  • Scots: “Teresina”
  • Serbian: “Teresina”
  • Serbian: “Terezina”
  • Serbian: “Терезина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Teresina”
  • Silesian: “Teresina”
  • Sinhala: “ටෙරෙසිනා”
  • Slovak: “Teresina”
  • Spanish: “Teresina”
  • Swahili: “Teresina”
  • Swedish: “Teresina”
  • Tajik: “Terezina”
  • Tajik: “Терезина”
  • Tamil: “டெரெசினா”
  • Tatar: “Терезина”
  • Telugu: “తెరేసిన”
  • Thai: “เตเรซีนา”
  • Turkish: “Teresina”
  • Ukrainian: “Терезіна”
  • Urdu: “تیریسینا”
  • Uzbek: “Teresina”
  • Venetian: “Teresina”
  • Vietnamese: “Teresina”
  • Volapük: “Teresina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Teresina”
  • Welsh: “Teresina”
  • Western Panjabi: “تیریسینا”
  • Wu Chinese: “特雷西纳”
  • “Teresina”

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