Elvas

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Elvas

Total population

15,254

Coordinates38.88°, -7.16°

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

Overview

Elvas, officially the City of Elvas, is a Portuguese municipality, former episcopal city and frontier fortress of easternmost central Portugal, located in the district of Portalegre in Alentejo. It is situated about 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Lisbon, and about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of the Spanish fortress of Badajoz, by the Madrid-Badajoz-Lisbon railway. The municipality population as of 2011 was 23,078, in an area of 631.29 square kilometres (243.74 sq mi). The city itself had a population of 16,640 as of 2011.

Geography

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