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Map of Mainland Portugal
'Continental Portugal' or 'Mainland Portugal' (
Portuguese: ''Portugal Continental'') is the designation of the
mainland Portuguese territory, located on
Europe's
Iberian Peninsula.
The designation is sometimes used to differentiate the
continental territory of Portugal (also known as The Continent - ''O Continente'') from the
insular territory of Portugal. The latter is composed by the
Madeira and
Azores archipelagos in the
Atlantic Ocean. It is also a
NUTS I division (see
administrative divisions of Portugal: NUTS for details).
The Azores and Madeira archipelagos are also commonly referred to as
The Autonomous Regions (''As Regiões Autónomas''), Insular Portugal (''Portugal Insular'') or simply The Islands (''As Ilhas'').
Mainland Portugal has 89,015 km² or 96.6% of the national territory of 92,145 km² and 9,833,408 inhabitants or 95.3% of the total population of 10,318,084.
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Portugal
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Metropole
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Regions of Portugal
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Autonomous regions of Portugal
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Azores
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Madeira
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Portugal's Exclusive Economic Zone