Portugal
Portuguese Republic
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| Anthem: "A Portuguesa" (Portuguese) "The Portuguese" | |
Location of Portugal
Portugal within the European Union | |
| Capital and largest city | Lisbon 38°46′N 9°9′W / 38.767°N 9.150°W |
| Official languages | Portuguese |
| Recognised national languages | Portuguese Sign Language |
| Recognised regional languages | Mirandese |
| Demonym | Portuguese |
| Government | Unitary semi-presidential republic |
| António José Seguro | |
| Luís Montenegro | |
• Speaker | José Pedro Aguiar-Branco |
| Legislature | Assembly of the Republic |
| Establishment | |
• County | 868 |
| 24 June 1128 | |
| 25 July 1139 | |
| 4–5 October 1143 | |
| 23 May 1179 | |
| 1 December 1640 | |
| 23 September 1822 | |
• Republic | 5 October 1910 |
| 25 April 1974 | |
| 25 April 1976 | |
| Area | |
• Total | 156,597 km2 (60,462 sq mi) (92nd) |
• Land | 92,225 km2 (35,608 sq mi) |
• Water | 64,372 km2 (24,854 sq mi) |
• Water (%) | 1.2 (2015) |
| Population | |
• 2024 estimate | 10,749,635 (87th) |
• 2021 census | 10,343,066 |
• Density | 116.6/km2 (302.0/sq mi) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2026 estimate |
• Total | $556.383 billion (50th) |
• Per capita | $51,853 (42nd) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2026 estimate |
• Total | $364.527 billion (44th) |
• Per capita | $33,972 (41st) |
| Gini (2024) | 31.9 medium inequality |
| HDI (2023) | 0.890 very high (40th) |
| Currency | Euro (€) (EUR) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 and -1 |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 and +0 |
| Date format | yyyy-mm-dd |
| Calling code | +351 |
| ISO 3166 code | PT |
| Internet TLD | .pt |
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. It is a unitary republic made up by mainland Portugal and two autonomous regions, with Lisbon as both its capital and largest city. It has a total population of over 10.7 million. The mainland borders Spain to the north and east, with Madeira and the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe.
The western Iberian Peninsula has been inhabited since prehistory, with the earliest signs of settlement dating to 5500 BC. Portugal was initially established as a county of the Kingdom of León in 868, and formally as a kingdom in 1179 resulting from the Reconquista against the Muslims. It later became one of the main participants of the Age of Discovery, made several seminal advancements in nautical science and was among the first European countries to explore and discover new territories and sea routes, establishing settlements, colonies, and trading posts. After it became a republic in 1910, Portugal lived under dictatorship from 1926 until its overthrow in 1974 enabling the full establishment of democracy in 1976.
It is a semi-presidential constitutional unitary republic and multi-party representative democracy with four separate sovereignty bodies: president, government, parliament, and judiciary. It has a unicameral national legislature known as the Assembly of the Republic. Portugal has developed a complex system to manage its territory, even though the mainland continues to remain highly centralized.
A developed country, Portugal has an advanced economy relying chiefly upon services, industry, and tourism. Shaped by the various civilisations that have crossed its territory, it has developed a specific culture with a vast influence that allowed Portuguese to become the world's fifth-most spoken native language with more than 250 million native speakers. Portugal is a member of the United Nations, European Union, Schengen Area, and Council of Europe, and one of the founding members of NATO, the eurozone, the OECD, and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.