Faro

Faro is a city in the region of that is a popular sun destination in the summer, and a base for exploring the surrounding area.
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  • Type: City with 41,900 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Distrikto Faro”, “Faro (stad)”, “Faro Municipality”, “Faro, Portugal”, “Município de Faro”, “Shantamariyya al-Gharbiyya”, “Shantamariyyat al-Gharb”, “Shantamriyyat al-Gharb”, “شنتمرية الغرب”, “파루 지방자치단체”, “ファーロ”, and “法羅”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Faro railway station and Estádio de São Luís.

Railway station
Photo: Ajpvalente, CC BY 3.0.
Faro station is the main railway station in the city of Faro, Portugal, on the Algarve line, serving the city of Faro in the Faro District of Portugal.

Stadium
Photo: PauloMoreira, Public domain.
The , also known as Santo Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Faro, , Portugal. It serves as the home stadium for Sporting Clube Farense, a football club based in Faro.

Church
Photo: Abrget47j, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Faro, Portugal. The cathedral was consecrated in the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the late 13th century by the Archbishop of Braga.

Faro

Latitude
37.0163° or 37° 0′ 59″ north
Longitude
-7.9352° or 7° 56′ 7″ west
Population
41,900
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
IATA airport code
FAO
UN/LOCODE
PT FAO
Open location code
8C9J2387+GW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25254936
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2268339
Wiki­data ID
Q159457
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Faro” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Albanian: “Faro”
  • Amharic: “ፋሮ”
  • Arabic: “فارو”
  • Armenian: “Ֆարո”
  • Asturian: “Faro”
  • Azerbaijani: “Faro”
  • Balinese: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Basque: “Faro”
  • Belarusian: “Фару”
  • Bengali: “ফারু”
  • Bengali: “ফারো”
  • Breton: “Faro”
  • Bulgarian: “Фару”
  • Catalan: “Faro”
  • Cebuano: “Faro”
  • Chechen: “Фару”
  • Chinese: “法魯”
  • Chinese: “法鲁”
  • Croatian: “Faro”
  • Czech: “Faro”
  • Danish: “Faro”
  • Dutch: “Faro”
  • Esperanto: “Faro”
  • Estonian: “Faro”
  • Extremaduran: “Faro”
  • Finnish: “Faro”
  • French: “Faro”
  • Galician: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Galician: “Faro”
  • Georgian: “ფარუ”
  • German: “Faro”
  • Greek: “Φάρο”
  • Gujarati: “ફેરો”
  • Hausa: “Faro”
  • Hebrew: “פארו”
  • Hindi: “फारो”
  • Hindi: “फेरो”
  • Hungarian: “Faro”
  • Icelandic: “Faro”
  • Indonesian: “Faro”
  • Irish: “Faro”
  • Italian: “Faro”
  • Japanese: “ファロ”
  • Javanese: “Faro”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ಯಾರೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Фару”
  • Kirghiz: “Фару”
  • Korean: “파루”
  • Ladino: “Faro”
  • Latin: “Ossonoba”
  • Latvian: “Faru”
  • Lithuanian: “Faras”
  • Lombard: “Faro (Portogall)”
  • Lombard: “Faro”
  • Luxembourgish: “Faro”
  • Malagasy: “Faro (Portugal)”
  • Malagasy: “Faro”
  • Malay: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Malay: “Faro”
  • Maltese: “Faro”
  • Manx: “Faro, y Phortiugal”
  • Manx: “Faro”
  • Marathi: “फॅरो”
  • Mazanderani: “فارو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Faro”
  • Mingrelian: “ფარუ”
  • Moksha: “Фару”
  • Northern Frisian: “Faro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Faro”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Faro”
  • Norwegian: “Faro”
  • Novial: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Faro”
  • Oromo: “Faro”
  • Ossetian: “Фару”
  • Panjabi: “ਫਾਰੋ”
  • Persian: “فارو”
  • Polish: “Faro”
  • Portuguese: “Faro”
  • Pushto: “فارو”
  • Romanian: “Faro”
  • Russian: “Фару”
  • Scots: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Scots: “Faro”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Faro”
  • Serbian: “Фаро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Faro”
  • Silesian: “Faro”
  • Sinhala: “ෆාරෝ”
  • Slovak: “Faro”
  • Slovenian: “Faro”
  • Somali: “Faro”
  • Spanish: “Faro”
  • Swahili: “Faro”
  • Swedish: “Faro”
  • Tajik: “Фару”
  • Tamil: “பிஹாரோ”
  • Tatar: “Фару”
  • Telugu: “ఫారో”
  • Tetum: “Faro”
  • Thai: “ฟารู”
  • Turkish: “Faro”
  • Ukrainian: “Фару”
  • Urdu: “فارو، پرتگال”
  • Urdu: “فارو”
  • Uzbek: “Faro”
  • Venetian: “Faro”
  • Vietnamese: “Faro”
  • Volapük: “Faro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Faro”
  • Welsh: “Faro”
  • Wu Chinese: “法鲁”
  • “Faro”

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