Vera Cruz
Vera Cruz is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. It occupies 87% of the island of Itaparica; the remainder belongs to the municipality of Itaparica.Photo: Ahmiguel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vera Cruz
- Type: Town with 42,500 residents
- Description: municipality of Bahia State, Brazil
- Neighbors: Salvador
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Vera Cruz, Bahia, Northeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-12.96082° or 12° 57' 39" southLongitude
-38.60992° or 38° 36' 36" westPopulation
42,500Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
BR VZCOpen Location Code
59V329QR+M2OpenStreetMap ID
node 415522587OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3465813Wikidata ID
Q22062840Vera Cruz Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Vera Cruz, Bahia
- Arabic: فيرا كروز، باهيا
- Armenian: Վերա Կրուս
- Basque: Vera Cruz (Bahia)
- Basque: Vera Cruz
- Catalan: Vera Cruz
- Cebuano: Vera Cruz
- Chechen: Вера-Крус (Баия)
- Chechen: Вера-Крус
- Chinese: 維拉克魯茲 (巴伊亞州)
- Chinese: 維拉克魯茲
- Chinese: 维拉克鲁兹 (巴伊亚州)
- Danish: Vera Cruz
- Dutch: Vera Cruz
- English: Vera Cruz, Bahia
- Esperanto: Vera Cruz
- French: Vera Cruz
- Georgian: ვერა-კრუსი (ბაია)
- German: Vera Cruz
- Hungarian: Vera Cruz
- Italian: Vera Cruz
- Japanese: ヴェラクルス (バイーア州)
- Japanese: ヴェラ・クルス
- Kazakh: Vera-Krws
- Kazakh: Вера-Крус (Баия)
- Kazakh: Вера-Крус
- Kazakh: ۆەرا-كرۋس
- Malagasy: Vera Cruz
- Norwegian: Vera Cruz
- Norwegian Bokmål: Vera Cruz
- Persian: ورا کروز، باهیا
- Polish: Vera Cruz
- Portuguese: Vera Cruz
- Portuguese: Vera Cruz (Bahia)
- Romanian: Vera Cruz, Bahia
- Romanian: Vera Cruz
- Russian: Вера-Крус
- Scots: Vera Cruz, Bahia
- Spanish: Vera Cruz
- Swedish: Vera Cruz
- Swedish: Vera Cruz kommun, Bahia
- Tatar: Вера-Крус (Баия)
- Tatar: Вера-Крус
- Turkish: Vera Cruz, Bahia
- Ukrainian: Вера-Крус
- Vietnamese: Vera Cruz, Bahia
- Volapük: Vera Cruz
- Waray (Philippines): Vera Cruz
- Conceição de Vera Cruz
- ვერა-კრუსი
Other Places Named Vera Cruz
Localities in the Area
- Vila Fonte da PrataHamlet
- Vila Alto de Santo AntônioHamlet
- GamboaHamlet
- Condomínio Praia de MediterrâneaLocality, 6 km southwest
- Bom DespachoVillage, 7 km northwest
Landmarks in the Area
- Instituto Nacional da Seguridade SocialGovernment office
- UPA Mar GrandeHospital
- Igreja Sagrado Coração de JesusChurch
- Prefeitura Municipal de Vera CruzTown hall
- 24° Delegacia TerritorialPolice station
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Vera Cruz. Photo: Ahmiguel, CC BY-SA 3.0.