Bragança

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Bragança

Total population

23,186

Coordinates41.81°, -6.76°

Demographic figures from INE Portugal. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Bragança, also known in English as Braganza, officially styled the City of Bragança, is a city and municipality in north-eastern Portugal, capital of the district of Bragança, in the Terras de Trás-os-Montes subregion of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 35,341, in an area of 1173.57 km².

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

F

Francisco de Moraes

Portuguese writer

Isaac Orobio de Castro

Jewish physician

Pizzi

Portuguese association football player (born 1989)

F

Francisco Xavier Doutel

T

Telmo Pires

Portuguese musician, singer and actor

H

Hélder Esteves

footballer

Armando da Gama Ochoa

Portuguese politician (1877–1941)

Alessandro Silva Pereira

Brazilian footballer

F

Francisco Botello de Moraes y Vasconcelos

Spanish writer (1670-1747)

Jacob de Castro Sarmento

Portuguese physician

Sarmento Rodrigues

Portuguese colonial governor

Abade de Baçal

Portuguese priest (1865-1947)

A

António Manuel da Fonseca e Sousa Sá Morais Pereira do Lago

Portuguese military personnel (1806-1869)

E

Eduarda Chiote

Portuguese writer

J

João Carlos de Sá Alves

Manuel Jorge Gomes de Sepúlveda

Portuguese military officer and colonial administrator (1735-1814)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Bragança

• Sobreiro de Baixo
  15.2 mi away · pop. 307
• Ouled Hamla
  812.4 mi away · pop. 13,112
• Guesba Ben Guelouh
  830.4 mi away
• Sidi R'ghiss
  843.6 mi away
• Mechtet El Maleh
  848.8 mi away · pop. 210
• Ferme - farhat hmida
  852.3 mi away · pop. 520
• Fkirina
  866.9 mi away
• Ain Ferhat
  870.1 mi away
• El Belala
  889.9 mi away
• Jasenak
  1113.8 mi away · pop. 226
• Drežnica
  1115.9 mi away · pop. 516
• Potok Musulinski
  1118.3 mi away · pop. 91

Browse all places in Bragança →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Bragança

IntroduÇÃo Descomplicada À FÍsica QuÂntica

Ellen Lucia Bragança · 2019

101 Piadas

Fernando Braganca · 2018

Rosa do Riboque, e outros contos

Albertino Bragança · 1985

Catherine of Bragança, infanta of Portugal, & queen-consort of England

Lillias Campbell Davidson · 1908

Amílcar Cabral

Aquino de Bragança · 1976

Bragança

Fundação Hilário Ferreira · 2010

Doutor Bragança, êsse varão laranjeirense

Camerino Bragança de Azevedo · 1971

Bragança

Neto Jacob · 1997

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

maritime pine

Pinus pinaster

Seen 2026-09-21

tree-of-heaven

Ailanthus altissima

Seen 2026-09-12

Garden pink-sorrel

Oxalis latifolia

Seen 2026-09-12

Rio Spiderwort

Tradescantia fluminensis

Seen 2026-09-12

Feral Pigeon

Columba livia domestica

Seen 2026-09-12

Old man's beard

Clematis vitalba

Seen 2026-09-12

Prostrate Amaranth

Amaranthus deflexus

Seen 2026-09-12

Common Mallow

Malva sylvestris

Seen 2026-09-12

pellitory-of-the-wall

Parietaria judaica

Seen 2026-09-12

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).