Porto is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon, and which is one of the major urban areas in the south of Europe and the second capital of a large urban area in the master Portugal.
Its administrative limits (an area of 41.66 km ² / 16 sq mi) and includes a population of 237 584 (2011) inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes.
The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative borders of the city, with a population of 1.3 million inhabitants (2011) in an area of 389 km2 (150 square miles), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal.
And includes the metropolitan area of Porto about about two million people.
Is identified Porto as a cosmopolitan city on the level of gamma by Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, being one of five cities in the Iberian Peninsula with a cosmopolitan city, (The others are Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Valencia).
Located along the mouth of the Douro River in northern Portugal, Porto and is characterized as one of the oldest European centers, and registered as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996.
Settlement dating back to many centuries, when it was the site of the Empire Romania.
He noted Latin name, Portus Cal, as the origin of the name "Portugal," based on a literal and development of oral Latin.
Portuguese is written in the name of the city with the definite article "o Porto" (English: the port).
As a result, the evolution of its name in English misinterpretation of pronunciation and referred to as "Porto" in modern literature and many speakers
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Its administrative limits (an area of 41.66 km ² / 16 sq mi) and includes a population of 237 584 (2011) inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes.
The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative borders of the city, with a population of 1.3 million inhabitants (2011) in an area of 389 km2 (150 square miles), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal.
And includes the metropolitan area of Porto about about two million people.
Is identified Porto as a cosmopolitan city on the level of gamma by Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, being one of five cities in the Iberian Peninsula with a cosmopolitan city, (The others are Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Valencia).
Located along the mouth of the Douro River in northern Portugal, Porto and is characterized as one of the oldest European centers, and registered as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996.
Settlement dating back to many centuries, when it was the site of the Empire Romania.
He noted Latin name, Portus Cal, as the origin of the name "Portugal," based on a literal and development of oral Latin.
Portuguese is written in the name of the city with the definite article "o Porto" (English: the port).
As a result, the evolution of its name in English misinterpretation of pronunciation and referred to as "Porto" in modern literature and many speakers
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