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Key facts
- Location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Archipelago
- Azores
- Area
- 141.02 km (54.45 sq mi)
- Coastline
- 72.79 km (45.23 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 915 m (3002 ft)
- Highest point
- Morro Alto
- Autonomous region
- Azores
- Municipalities
- Lajes das Flores Santa Cruz das Flores
- Demonym
- Florense/Florentino
- Population
- 3,428 (2021)
- Pop density
- 28.33/km (73.37/sq mi)
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Ethnic groups
- Portuguese
- Time zone
- UTC−01:00
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Azores
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Azores
- Capital
- Santa Cruz das Flores
- Population
- 3428
- Area
- 144
- Elevation
- 914
- Time zone
- UTC−01:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Highest point
- Morro Alto
- Image
- Ponta Delgada Flores Azores North.jpg
- Width
- 12
- Length
- 17
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- Category:Flores Island (Azores)
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- Flores (Azores)
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- Flores (Azores)
- located in/on physical feature
- Azores
- different from
- Flores
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Encyclopedic overview
Flores Island (Portuguese: Ilha das Flores; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfloɾɨʃ]) is an island of the Western Group (Grupo Ocidental) of the Azores.
It has an area of 143 km, a population of 3,428 inhabitants, and, together with Corvo Island of the western archipelago, lies within the North American Plate. The nearby Monchique Islet is the westernmost point of Portugal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Flores Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.