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The region of Madeira and Porto Santo has a total population of just under 256,060, the majority of whom live on Madeira Island (251,060) where the population density is 337/km 2; leaving around 5,000 on Porto Santo island where the population density is 112/km 2. About 247,000 residents, or 96% of the population, are Catholic.
Funchal Baptist Church was established in Madeira in 1976. It is located at Rua Silvestre Quintino de Freitas, and provides English services in the morning and Portuguese in the evening. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established on Madeira in 1983.
Madeira was also the host of the 2003 World Handball Championship. The Rally Vinho da Madeira is a rally race held annually since 1959, considered one of the biggest sporting events on the island [147] It was part of the European Rally Championship from 1979 to 2012 and the Intercontinental Rally Challenge from 2006 to 2010.
Silva Lopes, João Baptista da (1849) Memoria sobre a Reforma dos Pezos e Medidas em Portugal segundo o Sistema Metrico-Decimal, Imprensa Nacional, Lisboa. Trigoso, S.F.M. (1815) "Memória sobre os pesos e medidas portuguesas e sobre a introdução do sistema metro-decimal", Memórias Económicas da Academia Real das Ciências de Lisboa , vol ...
Rank Region GDP in euros € % of GDP GDP per capita In euros € As % of Portugal average 1 Greater Lisbon: 84,363,398,000 31.6% 39,942 158.0% 2
Some areas, such as the Azores, Madeira and Macau, were deemed either impractical to decolonise or too close in ties to Continental Portugal to make independent. However, due to their distinct geography, economy, social and cultural situation, as well as historical aspirations of autonomy in Madeira and the Azores, the autonomous regions were ...
Santa Cruz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɐ̃tɐ ˈkɾuʃ] ⓘ; "Holy Cross") is a municipality, a parish and a city in the eastern part of the island of Madeira. It is the second most populous municipality, behind Funchal. The population in 2011 was 43,005, [1] in an area of 81.50 km 2. [2]
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]