Braga
Braga is one of the five largest cities of Portugal, situated in the Minho region in the North of the country. It is known for its abundance of churches and thus called the "city of archbishops".Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 137,000 residents
- Description: municipality and city in Portugal
- Neighbors: Barcelos, Guimarães and Vila Nova de Famalicão
Notable Places in the Area
Estádio Municipal de Braga
Photo: Manuel Anastácio, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Municipal Stadium of Braga is an all-seater football stadium located in Braga, Portugal, and the current home of Sporting Clube de Braga.
Braga Cathedral
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of Braga is a Roman Catholic church in the northern city of Braga, Portugal.
Raio Palace
Photo: Joseolgon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Palace of Raio is a Baroque era residence in the urbanized area of the municipality of Braga, in the civil parish of São José de São Lázaro.
Localities in the Area
São Victor
São Victor is a Portuguese parish, located in the municipality of Braga.São Vicente
Photo: Joseolgon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
São Vicente is a Portuguese freguesia, located in the municipality of Braga.
Braga
- Categories: city of Portugal, municipality of Portugal, big city and locality
- Location: Braga District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.5511° or 41° 33' 4" northLongitude
-8.428° or 8° 25' 41" westPopulation
137,000Elevation
188 metres (617 feet)IATA airport code
BGZUnited Nations Location Code
PT BGZOpen Location Code
8CHHHH2C+CQOpenStreetMap ID
node 24960107OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2742032Wikidata ID
Q83247Braga Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Braga
- Arabic: براغا
- Arabic: براقرة
- Aragonese: Braga
- Armenian: Բրագա
- Asturian: Braga
- Azerbaijani: Braqa
- Balinese: Braga
- Basque: Braga
- Belarusian: Брага (горад)
- Belarusian: Брага
- Bengali: ব্রাগা
- Bishnupriya: ব্রাগা
- Bosnian: Braga
- Breton: Braga
- Bulgarian: Брага
- Burmese: ဘရာဂါ
- Catalan: Braga
- Cebuano: Braga
- Chechen: Брага (гӀала)
- Chechen: Брага
- Chinese: Braga
- Chinese: 布拉加
- Cornish: Braga
- Croatian: Braga
- Czech: Braga
- Danish: Braga
- Dutch: Braga (stad)
- Dutch: Braga
- English: Braga Municipality
- Esperanto: Braga
- Esperanto: Brago
- Esperanto: Distrikto Braga
- Estonian: Braga
- Extremaduran: Braga
- Finnish: Braga
- French: Braga
- Galician: Braga
- Georgian: ბრაგა
- German: Braga
- Greek: Μπράγα
- Greek: Μπράγκα
- Gujarati: બ્રાગા
- Hebrew: בראגה
- Hindi: ब्रागा
- Hungarian: Braga
- Icelandic: Braga
- Ido: Braga
- Indonesian: Braga
- Interlingue: Braga
- Irish: Braga
- Italian: Augusta Bracarensis
- Italian: Braga
- Japanese: ブラガ
- Kannada: ಬ್ರಾಗ
- Kazakh: Брaга қаласы
- Korean: 브라가
- Ladino: Braga
- Latin: Bracara Augusta
- Latin: Braga
- Latvian: Braga
- Lithuanian: Braga
- Lithuanian: Brakara Augusta
- Macedo-Romanian: Braga
- Macedonian: Брага
- Malay: Braga
- Marathi: ब्रागा
- Mazanderani: براگا
- Min Nan Chinese: Braga
- Mingrelian: ბრაგა
- Mirandese: Braga
- Mongolian: Брага
- Norwegian: Braga
- Norwegian Bokmål: Braga
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Braga
- Occitan (post 1500): Braga
- Persian: براگا
- Polish: Braga
- Portuguese: Bracara Augusta
- Portuguese: Braga
- Portuguese: Município de Braga
- Quechua: Braga
- Romanian: Braga
- Russian: Брага
- Serbian: Брага
- Serbo-Croatian: Braga
- Sicilian: Vraca
- Silesian: Braga
- Sinhala: බ්රාගා
- Slovak: Braga
- Slovenian: Braga
- Spanish: Braga
- Spanish: Municipio de Braga
- Swahili: Braga
- Swedish: Braga
- Tachawit: Bṛaga
- Tamil: ப்ராகா
- Tatar: Брага
- Telugu: బ్రాగా
- Tetum: Braga
- Thai: Braga
- Thai: บรากา
- Turkish: Bracara Augusta
- Turkish: Braga
- Ukrainian: Брага
- Urdu: براگا
- Venetian: Braga (Portogało)
- Venetian: Braga
- Vietnamese: Braga
- Volapük: Braga
- Waray (Philippines): Braga
- Welsh: Braga
- Western Panjabi: براگا
- Wu Chinese: 布拉加
- Yue Chinese: 布拉加
- Braga, Portugal
- Брaга
Other Places Named Braga
Localities in the Area
- SéSuburb
- São João do SoutoSuburb
- CividadeSuburb
- São José de São LázaroSuburb
- MaximinosSuburb
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