Paços de Ferreira
Coat of Arms	Map
City
Region:	Douro Litoral Douro Litoral Douro Litoral is a historical province of Portugal. It is centered on the city of Porto, now the capital of the Norte Region. Other important cities in the province are Vila Nova de Gaia, Matosinhos, Maia, Póvoa de Varzim, and the historically important Penafiel, Amarante, Feira, Vila do Conde.The...
Subregion:	Vale do Sousa
District:	Porto district Porto District The District of Porto , sometimes Oporto in English, is located on the north-west coast of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Porto, the second largest city in the country...
Population:	8,500
Municipality
Area:	72.9/km²
Population:	52,916
Number of parishes:	16

Paços de Ferreira (ˈpasuʒ ðɨ fɨˈʁɐjɾɐ) is a city in Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

. It is sometimes also called Capital do Móvel (capital of furniture

Furniture

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), since the city is home to numerous furniture manufacturing

Manufacturing

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 plants. Besides older Portuguese furniture companies, Portugal's major industrial operations of IKEA

IKEA

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 are also located there. It is a very industrial area, producing, for example, the famous LZR Racer

LZR Racer

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 suit of Speedo

Speedo

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.

Parishes

Paços de Ferreira is the seat

County seat

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 of a municipality

Municipalities of Portugal

In Portugal, municipality or concelho is the most stable subdivision of Portugal since the foundation of the country.Portugal has an entirely separate system of cities and towns. Cities and towns are located in municipalities, but often do not have the same boundaries, even if built-up is continuous...

 of the same name.

The following parishes lie within the municipality of Paços de Ferreira:

• Arreigada
• Carvalhosa
• Codessos
• Eiriz
• Ferreira
• Figueiró
• Frazão
  Frazão
  Frazão is a town in the municipality of Paços de Ferreira, Portugal....
  
  
• Freamunde
  Freamunde
  Freamunde is a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Paços de Ferreira. It has a population of 7,452 and an area of 4.68 km².-Sports:The main sport in Freamunde is football and the main team is S.C. Freamunde.-References:...
  
  [city]
• Lamoso
• Meixomil
• Modelos
• Paços de Ferreira [city]
• Penamaior
• Raimonda
• Sanfins de Ferreira
• Seroa