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Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Centro
- Historical province
- Beira Baixa
- Capital
- Castelo Branco
- Total
- 6,675 km (2,577 sq mi)
- Density
- 33.85/km (87.66/sq mi)
- Iso 3166 code
- PT-05
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- electoral unit
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Portugal
- Population
- 52192
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Leiria
- Official website
- www.gov-civil-castelobranco.pt
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- topic's main category
- Category:Castelo Branco District
- Commons category
- Castelo Branco (district)
- category for people born here
- Q14439305
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Castelo Branco District
- different from
- Castelo Branco
- P8168
- Rubén Gracia
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Castelo Branco District (Portuguese: Distrito de Castelo Branco [kɐʃˈtɛlu ˈβɾɐ̃ku] ) is located in Central Portugal. Its capital is Castelo Branco, which is now also its most populous city, overtaking Covilhã, which was once the largest city, in the late 2010s.
It has an area of 6,675 km (2,577 sq mi) (4th largest in Portugal), and a population of 225,916 inhabitants. It borders Spain (Extremadura).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Castelo Branco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.