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Belém

Civil parish in Lisboa

Country: Portugal
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1.Stated in archINFORMRetrieved 2025-05-09
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Located in: Lisbon
Population: 16,546(December 31, 2021)
Area: 10.43 km²
Founded: November 8, 2012
Website: jf-belem.pt

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Belém is a freguesia and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Belém is located in western Lisbon, to the west of Ajuda and Alcântara and directly east of Lisbon's border with Oeiras. Belém is famous as a museum district, as the home of many of the most notable monuments of Lisbon and Portugal alike, such as the Belém Tower, the Jerónimos Monastery, the Padrão dos Descobrimentos, and Belém Palace. The population in 2011 was 16,528.

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Contains settlement: Freguesia de São Francisco Xavier
Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém
Replaces: Freguesia de São Francisco Xavier
Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém
Geoshape: Data:Portugal/CAOP2019/Freguesias/Belém.map
Authority: Junta de Freguesia of Belém
Shares border with: Benfica
Ajuda
Alcântara
Algés, Linda-a-Velha e Cruz Quebrada-Dafundo

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8 identifiers linking Belém across the web's reference databases

38.7000, -9.2000OpenStreetMap ↗

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