Guimarães is a northern Portuguese city and municipality in the district of Braga, in the Ave Subregion (one of the more industrialized NUTS III subregions of the country), in the historial and cultural Minho Province. The city proper has a population of 52,181 inhabitants. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 158,124, in an area of . The present Mayor is Domingos Bragança, of the Socialist Party. The municipality is bordered to the north by the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso, to the east by Fafe, to the south by Felgueiras, Vizela and Santo Tirso, to the west by Vila Nova de Famalicão and the northwest by Braga.