Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe.
Portugal, country lying along the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. Once continental Europe’s greatest power, Portugal shares commonalities, geographic and cultural, with the countries of both northern Europe and the Mediterranean. Learn more about Portugal.
Physical map of Portugal showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Portugal.
In 1974, a left-wing military coup ushered in broad democratic reforms. The following year, Portugal granted independence to all its African colonies. Portugal is a founding member of NATO and entered the EC (now the EU) in 1986.
The country covers an area of 92,090 km², compared, it is slightly smaller than Hungary (93,028 km²), or the US state of Indiana. Portugal has a population of 10.3 million people (in 2020); the capital and largest city is Lisbon, with about 500,000 inhabitants. The official language is Portuguese.
Portugal, a country with a rich history of seafaring and discovery, looks out from the Iberian peninsula into the Atlantic Ocean. When it handed over its last overseas territory, Macau, to...
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe.
Following its heyday as a global maritime power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence of Brazil, its wealthiest colony, in 1822.
Portugal is a country in southern Europe. It shares its sole land border with Spain, which borders it to the north and east. The Atlantic Ocean borders the Iberian region to the west and south. Country Profile. Lisbon, located in the western region, is the capital of Portugal.
Portugal, officially Portuguese Republic, Country, on the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula, southwestern Europe. Area: 35,608 sq mi (92,225 sq km). Population: (2024 est.) 10,578,000. Capital: Lisbon. Most of the people are Portuguese. Language: Portuguese (official).