Amadora

Amadora is a city and municipality (Portuguese: concelho or munic?pio) in Portugal, in the northwest of the Lisbon metropolitan area. The city and municipality population is 175,872 in eleven freguesias (parishes). With an area of 23.77 km2, it is the most densely populated municipality of Portugal.

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The municipality was formed on September 111979, when it ceased being a freguesia of Oeiras.

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Every year, Amadora city organizes the Amadora International Comics Festival.

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It's essentially a residential suburb in conurbation with Lisbon with some industries.

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City: :For alternate meanings see city (disambiguation)...

Municipality: A municipality or "general-purpose district" (compare with: "special-purpose district") is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government....

Concelho: A concelho is the primary local administrative unit in Portugal (and other Lusophone countries). It is also called munic?pio (municipality). A concelho contains one or more freguesias....