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{{about|the city}} {{Infobox Portuguese subdivision | type = municipality |seat=[[Setúbal Municipal Chamber]]|official_name = Setúbal |image_flag = Pt-stb1.png |flag_border = no |image_shield = Arms of Setúbal.svg | image_skyline = {{Photomontage | photo1a = Fuerte de San Felipe, Setúbal, Portugal, 2012-05-11, DD 08 (cropped).JPG | photo2a = Setubal III (cropped).jpg | photo2b = Praça de Bocage - Setúbal.jpg | photo3a = Igreja de São Julião de Setúbal (cropped).JPG | photo3b = Forte de Santa Maria da Arrábida by Juntas 4.jpg | photo4a = Plaza del ayuntamiento, Setúbal, Portugal, 2012-08-17, DD 01.JPG | spacing = 2 | position = center | color_border = white | color = white | size = 280 | foot_montage = Clockwise: View of Setúbal from [[:pt:Castelo de São Filipe|Castelo de São Filipe]]; Bocage Gardens; Santa Maria da Arrábida Fort; Praça do Bocage; São Julião Church; view of Setúbal from the [[Sado Estuary Natural Reserve|Sado Estuary]]. }} |image_map = LocalSetubal.svg |region = Lisbon |metro = [[Lisbon metropolitan area|Lisbon]] |district = [[Setúbal District|Setúbal]] |leader_party = [[Unitary Democratic Coalition|CDU]] |leader_name = André Martins |area_total_km2 = 230.33 |population_total = 118166 |population_as_of = 2014 |parishes = [[#Parishes|5]] |holiday = 15 September |website = {{URL|http://www.mun-setubal.pt}} |coordinates = {{coord|38|31|27.5|N|8|53|33.4|W|type:adm1st_region:PT_dim:100000|display=inline,title}} }} '''Setúbal''' ({{IPAc-en|s|ə|ˈ|t|uː|b|əl}} {{respell|sə|TOO|bəl}},<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|Setúbal|access-date=5 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite dictionary |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/Set%C3%BAbal |title=Setúbal |dictionary=[[Lexico|Oxford Dictionaries]] UK English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}{{dead link|date=September 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> {{IPAc-en|USalso|-|b|ɑː|l}} {{respell|-|bahl}},<ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Setúbal|access-date=5 May 2019}}</ref> {{IPA|pt-PT|sɨˈtuβal|lang|Pt-pt Setúbal FF.ogg}}; {{langx|cel-x-proto|Caetobrix}}) is a [[city]] and a [[municipality]] in [[Portugal]]. The population of the entire municipality in 2014 was 118,166,<ref name=ine>{{cite web|url=http://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&contecto=pi&indOcorrCod=0008273&selTab=tab0|title=Statistics Portugal|website=www.ine.pt|access-date=3 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128174839/https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&contecto=pi&indOcorrCod=0008273&selTab=tab0|archive-date=28 November 2017}}</ref> occupying an area of {{convert|230.33|km2|1|abbr=on}}.<ref name=dgt>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dgterritorio.pt/cartografia_e_geodesia/cartografia/carta_administrativa_oficial_de_portugal_caop_/caop__download_/carta_administrativa_oficial_de_portugal___versao_2017__em_vigor_/ |title=Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país |access-date=2018-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105172426/http://www.dgterritorio.pt/cartografia_e_geodesia/cartografia/carta_administrativa_oficial_de_portugal_caop_/caop__download_/carta_administrativa_oficial_de_portugal___versao_2017__em_vigor_/ |archive-date=2018-11-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001.<ref>[http://dev.igeo.pt/atlas/Cap2/Cap2d_2.html UMA POPULAÇÃO QUE SE URBANIZA, Uma avaliação recente – Cidades, 2004] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006143612/http://dev.igeo.pt/atlas/Cap2/Cap2d_2.html |date=2014-10-06 }} Nuno Pires Soares, Instituto Geográfico Português (Geographic Institute of Portugal)</ref> It lies within the [[Lisbon metropolitan area]], about {{convert|50|km|0|abbr=off}} from [[Lisbon downtown]] by road. In the times of [[Al-Andalus]], the city was known as ''Shaṭūbar'' ([[Andalusian Arabic]]: {{lang|xaa|شَطُوبَر}} {{IPA|ar|ʃeˈtˤuːbɑr|}}), after the old pre-Roman name of ''Caetobriga''. In the 19th century, the port was called ''Saint Ubes'' in English,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wedgwood|first=Hensleigh|author-link=Hensleigh Wedgwood|title=On False Etymologies|journal=Transactions of the Philological Society|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3924121;view=1up;seq=77|year=1855|issue=6|pages=67}}</ref> and ''Saint-Yves'' in French. The municipal holiday is 15 September, which marks the date in 1860 when [[Pedro V of Portugal|King Pedro V of Portugal]] officially recognised Setúbal as a city.
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