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Continental Portugal or Mainland Portugal is the designation of the mainland
Mainland

Mainland is usually the continental part of a region, as opposed to the islands nearby. Sometimes the residents are called "the Mainlanders". As a result of the usually larger area of mainland, there are significantly more mainlanders than islanders, and mainlander culture and politics sometimes threaten to dominate those of the islands....
 Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 territory, located on Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
's Iberian Peninsula
Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France....
.

The designation is sometimes used to differentiate the continental
Continental

Continental is the adjective form of continent. Continental may refer to:*Geography:** Continental climate, a type of climate** Continental Europe, or various terms relating to continental Europe such as continental breakfast and continental lifestyle...
 territory of Portugal (also known as The Continent - O Continente) from the insula
Insula

Insula may refer to:* Insular cortex, a human brain structure* The singular of insulae, Roman apartments for the low and middle classes* ?nsula Barataria, the governorship assigned to Sancho Panza as a prank in the novel Don Quixote...
r territory of Portugal.






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Continental Portugal or Mainland Portugal is the designation of the mainland
Mainland

Mainland is usually the continental part of a region, as opposed to the islands nearby. Sometimes the residents are called "the Mainlanders". As a result of the usually larger area of mainland, there are significantly more mainlanders than islanders, and mainlander culture and politics sometimes threaten to dominate those of the islands....
 Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 territory, located on Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
's Iberian Peninsula
Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France....
.

The designation is sometimes used to differentiate the continental
Continental

Continental is the adjective form of continent. Continental may refer to:*Geography:** Continental climate, a type of climate** Continental Europe, or various terms relating to continental Europe such as continental breakfast and continental lifestyle...
 territory of Portugal (also known as The Continent - O Continente) from the insula
Insula

Insula may refer to:* Insular cortex, a human brain structure* The singular of insulae, Roman apartments for the low and middle classes* ?nsula Barataria, the governorship assigned to Sancho Panza as a prank in the novel Don Quixote...
r territory of Portugal. The latter is composed by the Madeira
Madeira

Madeira is a Portugal archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean that lies between and . It is one of the Autonomous regions of Portugal, with Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island being the only inhabited islands....
 and Azores
Azores

The Azores is a Portugal archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America....
 archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
. It is also a NUTS I
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, , is a geocode standardization for referencing the administrative divisions of country for statistical purposes....
 division (see administrative divisions of Portugal: NUTS for details). While in modern Portugal the difference between continental and total territory is not significant (in terms of area), it mattered during the existence of the Portuguese Empire
Portuguese Empire

The Portuguese Empire was the first global empire in history and also the earliest and longest lived of the modern European Colonialism empires, spanning almost six centuries, from the capture of Ceuta in 1415 to the handover of Macau in 1999....
, when this terminology was used.

The Azores and Madeira archipelagos are also commonly referred to as The Autonomous Regions
Autonomous regions of Portugal

The two Autonomous Regions of Portugal are the Azores and Madeira . Together with Continental Portugal , they form the whole of the Portuguese Republic....
 (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.

See also

  • Portugal
    Portugal

    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
    • Metropole
      Metropole

      The metropole, from the Greek Metropolis 'mother city' was the name given to the United Kingdom metropolitan center of the British Empire, i.e....
    • Regions of Portugal
    • Autonomous regions of Portugal
      Autonomous regions of Portugal

      The two Autonomous Regions of Portugal are the Azores and Madeira . Together with Continental Portugal , they form the whole of the Portuguese Republic....
      • Azores
        Azores

        The Azores is a Portugal archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America....
      • Madeira
        Madeira

        Madeira is a Portugal archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean that lies between and . It is one of the Autonomous regions of Portugal, with Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island being the only inhabited islands....
    • Portugal's Exclusive Economic Zone