Beja

Beja is a municipality in the district of Beja (sub-region: Baixo Alentejo), covering 1,147 km² in 12 parishes. Only 20 % of it is forest land (woodland, scrub or natural pasture, according to the COS 2025 land-cover map): there, the strip around each house is 50 m wide.

The map finds 130 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Beja, Beringel and Cabeça Gorda. None of them has forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around it.