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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.
São Jorge Castle and the surrounding areas of Castelo and Alfama in Lisbon, Portugal's capital and largest city. This is a list of Portugal's municipalities by population, according to the estimate of the resident population for the Census 2021 made by the National Statistics Institute (INE). [1]
The cities listed all have populations over 300,000. The list deals exclusively with the areas within city administrative boundaries as opposed to urban areas or larger urban zones (metropolitan areas), which are generally larger in terms of population than the main city (although they can also be smaller).
The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting .
However, the municipality is usually much larger than the city or town after which it is named. The largest in area is Odemira with 1720.60 km 2, the smallest is São João da Madeira with an area of 7.94 km 2. [10] Nearly all municipalities are subdivided into civil parishes. Barcelos is the municipality with the largest number of civil ...
The heart of the city is the Baixa or city centre; the Pombaline Baixa is an elegant district, primarily constructed after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, taking its name from its benefactor, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, who was the minister of Joseph I of Portugal (1750–1777) and a key figure during the Portuguese ...
The metropolitan area, covering 17 cities in 18 municipalities, is the largest urban area in the country and the 10th largest in the European Union, with a population in 2023 of 2,961,177 in an area of 3,015.24 km². [5] [6] The Lisbon Metropolitan Area has the largest GDP (€76.4 billion) of any metropolitan area in Portugal. [7]
Map of Portugal This is a list of municipalities in Portugal which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as " town twinning " (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).