PORTUGAL
(Republic Portugal)

Capital: Lisbon (Lissabon)

Flag: the national flag accepted in 1911 consists of the green field at the elevator and the bigger red field. On a joint of two, in yellow, red, blue and white, the national coat of arms is.

Anthem: Portuguese (Portuguese).

Money: The escudo (e) replaced euro as official currency as of 2002. Euro is divided into 100 cents. There are coins of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents and 1 euro and 2 euros. There are notes from 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 euros. €1 = $1.25475 (or $1 = €0.79697) as of 2005.

WEIGHT AND MEASURES: the metric system is the legal standard.

HOLIDAYS: New year, on January 1; Day of a carnival, on February 15; Revolution Anniversary, on April 25; Labor Day, on May 1; National day, on June 10; Assumption, on August 15; Day of the Republic, on October 5; All Saints' Day, on November 1; Independence Day, on December 1; Immaculate conception, on December 8; Christmas, on December 25. Moveable religious feasts include Day of a carnival, Good Friday and Corpus Christi.

TIME: GMT.

ARRANGEMENT, SIZE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The most western country of Europe, Portugal occupies the most part of the western coast of the Iberian peninsula. Portugal has the area of 92 391 sq.km (35 672 quarter. Miles), including archipelago of Acores, Madeira and Porto Santa. Rather, the space occupied by Portugal is a little less than State of Indiana. The continent of Portugal stretches for 561 km (349 miles) of nanosecond and for 218 km (135 miles). Boundary on n and e Spain and on s and w in the Atlantic Ocean, Portugal has the total length of border of 3 007 km (1 868 miles) from which 1,793 km (1,114 miles) are the coastline.
The capital of Portugal, Lisbon, is located on the western coast of Portugal.

TOPOGRAPHY

Portugal shows sharp topographical contrasts. Though the North substantially is the lowland or the earth of average height, distribution of mountainous areas unevenly to the north and to the south of the Tagus River (Tagus). From the North on the South the main ridges are Peneda (reaching the maximum height of 1416 m / 4,646 feet), Gerak (1 507 m / 4,944 feet), Marau (1,415 m / 4,642 feet), Montemuro (1,382 m / 4,534 feet)), Acor (1,340 m / 4,396 feet) and Lousa (1,204 m / 3,950 feet), all to the north from Tagus. The uplands of Beira passed by Tahoe on the way to the sea contain the highest peak of Portugal, Estrin (1,991 m / 6,532 feet). On the West the low coast of Bury-Litorala lies. The basin of Tahoe and Sado lies near the hilly territory of Extremadura and rises to Hills Alentezhu in the east.

The internal lowland of the lowest Alentezhu located further on the South is limited to Hills Algarve. The southern coast, from the mouth of Guadiana to the cape Saint Vincent, generally coolly, but to the north from the cape Saint Vincent to Tagus, including the big gulf Setubal and the mouth of Tahoe, the coast low. To the north from Tagus it coolly rises to hills Sintra behind which there is a low coast of the dunes interrupted with swamps of Aveiro.