The Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Leiria (; English: ''Leiria Region'') is an administrative division in western

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

. It was created in 2014, replacing the former ''Associação de Municípios da Região de Leiria'' created in 2009. Since January 2015, Região de Leiria is also a NUTS3 subregion of

Centro Region The Central Region (, ) or Central Portugal is one of the statistical regions of Portugal. The cities with major administrative status inside this region are Coimbra, Aveiro, Viseu, Leiria, Castelo Branco and Guarda. It is one of the seven Regi ...

, that covers the same area as the intermunicipal community.Adequação dos indicadores à nova organização territorial NUTS III / Entidades Intermunicipais
Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 18 March 2015 The seat of the intermunicipal community is

Leiria Leiria () is a city and municipality in the Central Region, Portugal, Central Region of Portugal. It is the 2nd largest city in that same region, after Coimbra, with a municipality population of 128,640 (as of 2021) in an area of . It is the seat o ...

. Região de Leiria comprises a large part of the former district of

. The population in 2011 was 294,632,Instituto Nacional de Estatística
/ref> in an area of 2,449.12 km².Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país
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Municipalities

The intermunicipal community of Região de Leiria consists of 10 municipalities:

References

External links

Official website CIM Região de Leiria
Intermunicipal communities of Portugal Centro Region, Portugal {{Leiria-geo-stub