Portugal

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

This page is being built. Everything below is a block that is in place and empty. Each one says which kind of empty it is, because those are different facts: nobody has looked yet is not the same claim as we looked and there was nothing, and this page will never let one stand in for the other.

Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Portugal. Portugal is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 1 contested area is marked with hatching: Olivenza. 11 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 33.6°W to 3.9°W and 28.9°N to 43.2°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.Olivenza — status contested; see the list below.

Portugal is filled. The 3 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The hatched area is contested, and Aletheia takes no position on it. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names.

11 parts of Portugal in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 36.1°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 33.6°W–3.9°W, 28.9°N–43.2°N.

Disputed areas involving Portugal

One area whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on it. It is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    2 sources from Portugalin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • RTP Notícias (RSS index)
    • Público

    sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for Portugal: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    Assembly of the Republic ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    3 time zones.

    How many distinct clocks that is depends on the date. The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Lisbon

    29°C / 85°FClearwind 1 km/h / 1 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Lisbon, 2026-09-20Sunrise 7:22 AM · sunset 7:36 PM12h 14m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    PRTuncited
    Driving side
    rightuncited
    Mains voltage
    230 Vcited
    Capital
    Lisbon — de factocited
    Official language
    Portuguesecited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    portugal.gov.pt ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Portugal: the UN's 2025 estimate is 10,804,871 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 13 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    10,804,871 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    10,694,681 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 13 more an hour (110,263 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    10,804,8712025
    GDP
    346,639,825,1422025
    GDP per capita
    32,0822025
    Life expectancy at birth
    82.4 years2024
    Exports
    43.7%2025
    Imports
    42.7%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.

    Also recorded in English and Welsh.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    16 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Centro Histórico de Angra do Heroísmo · inscribed 1983
    2. Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon · inscribed 1983
    3. Batalha Monastery · inscribed 1983
    4. Convent of Christ · inscribed 1983
    5. Centro Histórico de Évora · inscribed 1986
    6. Alcobaça Monastery · inscribed 1989
    7. Cultural Landscape of Sintra · inscribed 1995
    8. Historic Centre of Porto · inscribed 1996
    9. Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley · inscribed 1998 · removed from the List · shared with Spain

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    10. Laurisilva of Madeira · inscribed 1999
    11. Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone · inscribed 2001

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    12. Alto Douro Wine Region · inscribed 2001
    13. Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture · inscribed 2004
    14. Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications · inscribed 2012
    15. Universidade de Coimbra – Alta e Sofia · inscribed 2013
    16. Royal Building of Mafra · inscribed 2019
    17. Bom Jesus do Monte · inscribed 2019

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO · 1 removed from the list is shown and not counted

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 112

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    EUR

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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