Castelo Branco · Portugal
Covilhã population
17,610people · latest figure
Photo: Feliciano Guimarães from Guimarães, Portugal, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Covilhã has a population of 17,610, making it the 143rd largest place we list in Portugal. It is in Castelo Branco.
Covilhã holds 0.17% of Portugal's 10,395,362 people. Lisbon, the largest place we list there, is 29 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 17,610, almost unchanged.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Covilhã is in Castelo Branco, which has 16 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Loulé | Faro | 17,930 |
| Moita | Setúbal | 17,795 |
| Sacavém | Lisbon | 17,718 |
| Ramada | Lisbon | 17,535 |
| Chaves | Vila Real | 17,535 |
| Pombal | Leiria | 17,355 |
All places in Portugal → · Castelo Branco →
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.