Portugal
Portugal (officially Portuguese Republic) is a country in Southern Europe, with its capital at Lisbon, and is home to roughly 10.7M people.
Portuguese is the official language; the currency in circulation is Euro (€); people from here are called Portuguese.
- »Portugal is the world's largest producer of cork.
- »The Portuguese–Spanish border is one of the oldest continuous borders in the world.
- »Its 1755 earthquake and tsunami helped found the modern study of seismology.
Portugal has exactly one neighbour: Spain to the east.
Lisbon was flattened by an earthquake, fire and tsunami on All Saints' Day 1755. The rebuilt Baixa district used some of the earliest earthquake-resistant structural design in Europe.
88,069 km² (34,004 sq mi), 111th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Jordan.
Population 10,694,681, 90th of 198 on file. That averages 121 per km² (315 per sq mi).
The armillary sphere, a navigator's instrument, commemorates the age of Portuguese exploration. The shield's five small blue shields are said to represent five Moorish kings defeated in battle.