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This is a list of the municipalities of Portugal. Portugal is divided into 18 districts ( Portuguese : distritos ) and 2 autonomous regions ( regiões autónomas ), Azores and Madeira . The districts and autonomous regions are further subdivided into 308 municipalities of Portugal ( municípios or concelhos ).
The municipality (Portuguese: município or concelho) is the second-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. [ 1 ] As a general rule, each municipality is further subdivided into parishes ( freguesias ); the municipalities in the north of the country usually have a higher number of parishes.
Administrative divisions of continental Portugal, including districts, NUTS and historical provinces. This is the list of the municipalities of Portugal under the NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 format. The NUTS 3 regions were revised in 2015; since then, the subregions (NUTS 3) coincide with the intermunicipal communities . [ 1 ]
A town (Portuguese: Vila) in Portugal, does not necessarily correspond to a municipality. There are 533 towns in Portugal. Some towns are the seat of municipality; others belong to a municipality. Alphabetically, the towns are as follows: Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística
The 308 Portuguese municipalities are divided among the 25 sub-regions and the 7 national regions, the population density of each municipality, and the area it totals. About 64.88% of the national population, 6,760,989 inhabitants, live in the 56 municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants, about 18.2% of all national municipalities.
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This is a list of cities in Portugal. In Portugal , a city ( Portuguese : cidade ) is an honorific term given to locations that meet several criteria, such as having a minimum number of inhabitants good infrastructure (schools, medical care, cultural and sports facilities), or have a major historical importance.