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Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Norte
- Metropolitan area
- Porto
- District
- Porto
- Seat
- Maia Municipal Chamber
- President
- António Silva Tiago ( PSD )
- Total
- 82.99 km (32.04 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,635/km (4,234/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Website
- www .cm-maia .pt
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Maia ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmajɐ] ) is a municipality in the Porto Metropolitan Area), Grande Porto subregion, in Norte Region, Portugal. It is located 11 km north of central Porto. The population in 2011 was 135,306, in an area of 82.99 km (32.04 sq mi). There is one city (Cidade da Maia) and three towns (Moreira, Castêlo da Maia and Águas Santas) in the municipality.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.