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Figueira da Foz
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municipality in Portugal
Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Centro
- Intermunic comm
- Região de Coimbra
- District
- Coimbra
- President
- Pedro Santana Lopes ( Ind. )
- Total
- 379.05 km (146.35 sq mi)
- Density
- 163.90/km (424.49/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Local holiday
- 24 June
- Website
- http://www.cm-figfoz.pt/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Portugal
- Official name
- Município da Figueira da Foz
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Coimbra Region
- Contains
- Moinhos da Gândara
- Population
- 62125
- Area
- 379.05
- Elevation
- 15
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Mondego River
- Shares border with
- Soure
- Official website
- www.cm-figfoz.pt
- Image
- Figueira da Foz - Portugal (12303340164) (cropped).jpg
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Figueira da Foz
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Figueira da Foz
- public holiday
- patronal festival
- category for people born here
- Q14971065
- topic's main category
- Category:Figueira da Foz
- postal code
- 3084
- twinned administrative body
- Gradignan
- native label
- Figueira da Foz
- P8168
- Ardian Đokaj
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- time of earliest written record
- 1096-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Figueira da Foz, officially the City of Figueira da Foz, often called simply Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. Practically at the midpoint of the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic coast, it is located at the mouth of the Mondego River, 40 km (25 mi) west of Coimbra and sheltered by hills (Serra da Boa Viagem), sharing about the same latitude with Philadelphia, Baku and Beijing. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 62,125, in an area of 379.05 km (146.35 sq mi). The city of Figueira da Foz proper has a population of 46,600. It is the second largest city in the district of Coimbra.
It is a coastal city with several beaches, summer and seaport facilities on the Atlantic Ocean coast. As a tourism city, it plays an important part in the centre of the country. A zone of legal gambling, one can find in Figueira one of the biggest casinos of the Iberian Peninsula – the Casino Figueira.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Figueira da Foz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.