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Funchal (Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital, largest city and the municipal seat of Portugal's Autonomous Region of Madeira, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.The city has a population of 105,795, [1] making it the sixth largest city in Portugal.
The Madeira archipelago is located 520 km (280 nmi) from the African coast, 805 km (430 nmi) from the closest point in the European coast (the Portuguese town of Sagres, in Algarve) and 1,000 km (540 nmi) from the capital of Portugal, Lisbon (approximately a one-and-a-half-hour flight). [52]
Funchal (capital of Madeira and the island's most populous city) [1] Machico; Porto da Cruz; Ponta Delgada, São Vicente; Ponta do Sol; Porto Moniz; Ribeira Brava; Santa Cruz; Santana [1] São Vicente; Seixal (Porto Moniz) [1]
As of 2021, Madeira had a total population of 245,595. The island is the top of a massive submerged shield volcano that rises about 6 km (3.7 mi) from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The volcano formed atop an east–west rift [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in the oceanic crust along the African Plate , beginning during the Miocene epoch over 5 million years ago ...
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The latter comprises the archipelagos of Madeira and Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. The Azores and Madeira are also commonly referred to as the autonomous regions (Portuguese: as regiões autónomas), insular Portugal (Portuguese: Portugal Insular) or, simply, the islands (Portuguese: as ilhas). Continental Portugal is divided into 18 districts.
' Angry River ') is a municipality on the island of Madeira, in the Portuguese Autonomous Region of Madeira. It is located along the southern coast (approximately centre), and is west of Câmara de Lobos and the regional capital Funchal, south of São Vicente, and east of Ponta do Sol. The population in 2011 was 13,375, [1] in an area of 65.41 ...
The current administrative divisions of Portugal: the Northern region, the Center region, the Oeste e Vale do Tejo region, the Lisbon region, the Alentejo region, the Algarve region, and the autonomous regions of the Azores and Madeira. The subdivisions of Portugal are based on a complicated