Figueira da Foz

Figueira da Foz
Municipality
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Coordinates: 40°09′N 8°51′W / 40.150°N 8.850°W / 40.150; -8.850
Country	Portugal
Region	Centro
Intermunic. comm.	Região de Coimbra
District	Coimbra
Parishes	14
Government
• President	Pedro Santana Lopes (Ind.)
Area
• Total	379.05 km2 (146.35 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	62,125
• Density	160/km2 (420/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC±00:00 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (WEST)
Local holiday	24 June
Website	http://www.cm-figfoz.pt/

Figueira da Foz (Portuguese pronunciation: [fiˈɣɐjɾɐ ðɐ ˈfɔʃ] ^ⓘ), also known as Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. Practically at the midpoint of the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic coast, it is located at the mouth of the Mondego River, 40 km (25 mi) west of Coimbra and sheltered by hills (Serra da Boa Viagem), sharing about the same latitude with Philadelphia, Baku and Beijing. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 62,125,^[1] in an area of 379.05 km² (146.35 sq mi).^[2] The city of Figueira da Foz proper has a population of 46,600. It is the second largest city in the district of Coimbra.

It is a coastal city with several beaches, summer and seaport facilities on the Atlantic Ocean coast. As a tourism city, it plays an important part in the centre of the country. A zone of legal gambling, one can find in Figueira one of the biggest casinos of the Iberian Peninsula – the Casino Figueira.