Key facts
- Location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Archipelago
- Azores
- Area
- 173.06 km (66.82 sq mi)
- Coastline
- 80.27 km (49.877 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 1,043 m (3422 ft)
- Highest point
- Cabeço Gordo
- Autonomous region
- Azores
- Largest settlement
- Horta, Azores (pop. 6,400)
- Demonym
- Faialense
- Population
- 14,334 (2021)
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Ethnic groups
- Portuguese
- Time zone
- UTC−01:00
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Azores
- Capital
- Horta
- Population
- 14331
- Area
- 173
- Time zone
- UTC−01:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Highest point
- Cabeço Gordo
- Location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- HortaFaialAzores1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Faial (Azores)
- topic's main category
- Category:Faial Island
- located in/on physical feature
- Azores
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
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Faial Island ( pronounced [fɐjˈal]), also known as Fayal Island, is a Portuguese island contained within the Central Group or Grupo Central of the Azores, in the Atlantic Ocean.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Faial Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.