Portugal Vacations

Resources to Holidays in Portugal

The country Portugal vacations lead to is officially called the Portuguese Republic. The furthest west of all European countries Portugal shares with Spain the Iberian Peninsula. The borders to Spain lie north and east while a long coast in the west is swept by the Atlantic Ocean. Two archipelagos the Azores and Madeira belong to Portugal.

The land area circumscribing the nation is with 92 thousand square kilometres about one third of New Zealand, but with two and a half times the population living there. The Portuguese population was estimated to 11,317,192 in May 2010. Capital and largest city is Lisbon.

Featuring Mediterranean climate it is known to be the warmest of the European countries with temperatures averaging 13 °C to 18 °C increasing from the mountainous north to the south even reaching in some places average temperatures of 20 °C.

Portuguese is the official language that originates from Latin. Mirandese a regional language gained co-official status. The Portuguese seafarers were great explorers during the 14th and 15th century and built a global empire based on colonies and trade relations. As a result Portuguese is spoken in Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau, and East Timor and the administrative region Macau in China. For some it became their official language.

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