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The Porto Metropolitan Area is a major economic engine in Portugal, with a very high HDI (Human Development Index) and a GDP above the European average. [4] Porto has been Portugal's largest manufacturing region since the Industrial Revolution and is home to many of the country's largest corporations. It is chaired by Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues .
Porto has several institutions of higher education, the largest one being the state-managed University of Porto (Universidade do Porto), which is the second largest Portuguese university, after the University of Lisbon, with approximately 28,000 students and considered one of the 100 best Universities in Europe. [93]
The District of Porto (Portuguese: Distrito do Porto ⓘ) is located on the north-west coast of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Porto , the second largest city in the country. It is bordered by the Aveiro and Viseu districts to the south, Braga district to the north and Vila Real district to the east.
The North Region (Portuguese: Região do Norte [ʁɨʒiˈɐ̃w du ˈnɔɾtɨ]) or Northern Portugal is the most populous region in Portugal, ahead of Lisbon, and the third most extensive by area. The region has 3,576,205 inhabitants according to the 2017 census, and its area is 21,278 kilometres (13,222 mi) with a density of 173 inhabitants per ...
Since the 2013 local government reform, there are two metropolitan areas: Lisbon and Porto. [1] The metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto were created in 1991. [ 2 ] A law passed in 2003 supported the creation of more metropolitan areas, under the conditions that they consisted of at least nine municipalities ( concelho s) and had at least ...
The NUTS 3 regions were revised in 2015; since then, the subregions (NUTS 3) coincide with the intermunicipal communities. [1] The current and the former compositions of the NUTS regions are given below, in the following format: NUTS 2 region [number of subregions] NUTS 3 region [number of municipalities]
Maia (Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ) is a municipality in the Porto Metropolitan Area, Grande Porto subregion, in Norte Region, Portugal. It is located 11 km north of central Porto. The population in 2011 was 135,306, [1] in an area of 82.99 km 2 (32.04 sq mi). [2]
The nine regions of Portugal are likewise subdivided into 25 subregions (Portuguese: subregiões) that, from 2015, represent the 2 metropolitan areas, the 21 intermunicipal communities and the 2 autonomous regions. Therefore, since the 2013 revision (enforced in 2015), the Portuguese subregions have a statutory and administrative relevance. [6]