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Organização territorial de Portugal; Distritos de Portugal; Categoria:Distritos de Portugal; Categoria:Municípios de Portugal; Categoria:Localidades de Portugal; Categoria:Freguesias de Portugal; Associações de futebol de Portugal; Predefinição:CatPorDis; Usuário(a):Pla y Grande Covián; Lista de áreas protegidas de Portugal; Usage on ...
The districts were abolished in Azores and Madeira in 1976, when the autonomous regions were created. In 1998, a proposal was submitted to referendum to create eight administrative regions in mainland Portugal, and so to extinguish the districts. The proposal was rejected at the ballot box and so the districts continued to exist in mainland ...
Administrative divisions of continental Portugal, including districts, NUTS and historical provinces. This is the list of the municipalities of Portugal under the NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 format. The NUTS 3 regions were revised in 2015; since then, the subregions (NUTS 3) coincide with the intermunicipal communities . [ 1 ]
In Portugal, the city is not an administrative division, therefore a city generally does not necessarily correspond to a municipality, which is the second-level local government in the country. Some entirely urban municipalities do coincide with cities, such as Lisbon, Porto, Funchal, Amadora, Entroncamento, and São João da Madeira.
Portugal is divided into 18 districts (Portuguese: distritos) and 2 autonomous regions (regiões autónomas), Azores and Madeira. The districts and autonomous regions are further subdivided into 308 municipalities of Portugal (municípios or concelhos). Usually, a municipality is named after its largest or historically most important town or city.
Territorial map corresponding to the NUTS I and NUTS II designations. The Eurostat-based NUTS system subdivides the nation into three levels: NUTS I, NUTS II and NUTS III. In some European partners, as is the case with Portugal, a complementary hierarchy, respectively LAU I and LAU II (posteriorly referred to as NUTS IV and NUTS V) is employed.
English: Map of Portuguese regions by HDI in 2017. Português: Mapa das regiões de Portugal por IDH em 2017. Legend: > 0.880 . 0.840 – 0.880 . 0.820 – 0.840 .
The subdivisions of Portugal are based on a complicated administrative structure. The second-level administrative division , after the 7 regions and 2 autonomous regions , is 308 municipalities ( concelhos ) which are further subdivided into 3091 civil parishes ( freguesias ).