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Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Lisbon
- Metropolitan area
- Lisbon
- District
- Setúbal
- President
- Nuno Canta ( PS )
- Total
- 348.62 km (134.60 sq mi)
- Density
- 159.86/km (414.05/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Local holiday
- Saint Peter , June 29
- Website
- http://www.mun-montijo.pt
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Montijo ( Portuguese pronunciation: [mõˈtiʒu] ) is a city and municipality in Setúbal District in Portugal. Its name was Aldeia Galega do Ribatejo or simply Aldeia Galega until 1930. The population in 2021 was 55,732, in an area of 348.62 km. The city of Montijo proper had a population of 25,719 in 2001.
It is one of the few municipalities in Portugal without territorial continuity; that is, its component parts are not conjoined. It is located in the Lisbon metropolitan area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Montijo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.