Gove

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Gove

Total population

1,992

Coordinates41.13°, -8.05°

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

Overview

Michael Andrew Gove, Baron Gove is a British politician and journalist. A member of the House of Lords since 2025, he previously held senior Cabinet positions in Conservative governments between 2010 and 2024. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath from 2005 to 2024, during which he twice returned to the backbenches. He was a prominent figure in the 2016 referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union and stood for the Conservative leadership on two occasions. Gove was often described by the media as Boris Johnson's "de facto" Deputy Prime Minister. He has been editor of The Spectator since 2024.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Carmen Miranda

Brazilian singer (1909–1955)

Belmiro de Azevedo

Portuguese businessman (1938–2017)

Pedrinha

Portuguese footballer

S

Soeiro Pereira Gomes

Portuguese writer (1909–1949)

Alexandre de Serpa Pinto

Explorer and soldier (1846–1900)

Márcio Vieira

footballer

L

Luís Maria Teixeira Pinto

Portuguese economist

José de Queirós Alves

Portuguese priest

Victor Hugo Moreira Teixeira

Andorran association football player

A

Afonso Lopes de Baião

Portuguese noble and troubadour

J

João Soares Coelho

Portuguese troubadour

J

Jorge Leitão

Portuguese footballer

N

Nélson Sampaio

Portuguese footballer

Vizconde de Vila Moura

Portuguese politician and writer

A

Adriano Antero

Portuguese writer (1846-1934)

António Maria Almeida Matos

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

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• Olib
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• Veli Rat
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• Soline
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  1181.2 mi away · pop. 118
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• Kolanjski Gajac
  1182.3 mi away · pop. 16
• Mandre
  1183 mi away · pop. 395
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Geography & sun

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

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Mignonette vine

Anredera cordifolia

Seen 2026-09-23

Common Buzzard

Buteo buteo

Seen 2026-09-21

Black-headed Gull

Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Seen 2026-09-19

Buff Arches

Habrosyne pyritoides

Seen 2026-09-16

Asian Lady Beetle

Harmonia axyridis

Seen 2026-09-16

tree privet

Ligustrum lucidum

Seen 2026-09-16

Pale Brittlestem

Candolleomyces candolleanus

Seen 2026-09-15

Iberian Green Frog

Pelophylax perezi

Seen 2026-09-13

Southern Hawker

Aeshna cyanea

Seen 2026-09-12

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

Official Identifiers