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The great majority of the Portuguese population belongs to the Roman Catholic Church. Religious observance remains strong in northern areas, while the population of Lisbon and southern areas are generally less devout. Religious minorities include a little over 400,000 Protestants and Mormons [66] [67] [68] (3.84% of the total population).
Lisbon (/ ˈ l ɪ z b ən / ⓘ LIZ-bən; Portuguese: Lisboa [liʒˈβoɐ] ⓘ) [3] is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits [4] and 2,961,177 within the metropolis. [5] Lisbon is mainland Europe's westernmost capital city (second overall after Reykjavik).
Lisbon in the 1570s had many black Africans among its population. In the second half of the 16th century, at the end of the Portuguese Age of Discovery and close to the apogee of the transcontinental Portuguese Empire, Lisbon was full of black people of African extraction who lived freely and naturally among the white locals of European ...
Lisbon, with 545,143 inhabitants in the city proper, is the capital and the largest city in Portugal. Around 9.15 million (87%) Portuguese-born people live in the country, [ 184 ] out of a total population of 10.467 million.
There are also records of there being Black slaves in Lisbon in the Middle Ages. [9] By the mid-16th century, there were approximately 10,000 Africans in Lisbon, around 10% of the city's population. [10] By the end of the 16th century, the predominantly African neighborhood of Mocambo was established in the modern neighborhood of Madragoa . [11]
Reading skills for eighth-graders hit their lowest level since testing began in 1992. Levels for fourth-graders were also near record lows as educators struggle to keep students engaged in a post ...
A new census which plans to enumerate the people of Burma by ethnicity and race is planned to be held in 2014. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] The 1931 Burmese census generated a lot of anger from non-Burmese ethnic groups who were marked as Burmese on the census. [ 53 ]
Disabled people are almost twice as likely to be displaced by natural disasters, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. For some groups, like those who require nonverbal communication ...