List of municipalities of Portugal
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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 (Portuguese: regiões autónomas), Azores and Madeira. The districts and autonomous regions are further sub-divided into 308 municipalities (Portuguese: municípios or concelhos). Usually, a municipality has the name of its biggest city, or at least, of its historically most important city or town, however, the municipality is, usually, much larger than the city or town after which it is named.
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[edit] History and division of the municipalities
The municipality has been the most stable subdivision of Portugal since the foundation of the country in the 12th century. They have their origin in the foral, a legal document, issued by the king, which assigned privileges to a town or a region. The present subdivisions have their origins in the 19th century.
Each municipality is further subdivided into parishes (Portuguese: freguesias); the municipalities in the north of the country usually have a higher number of parishes. Six municipalities are composed of only one parish, and Barcelos is the municipality with most parishes: 89.
Since the creation of a democratic local administration in 1976, after the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974, the Portuguese municipalities have been ruled by a bicameral system. The municipal chamber is the executive body, and is composed of the president of the municipality and a number of councillors proportional to the municipality's population. The municipal assembly is composed of the presidents of all the parishes that compose the municipality, and by a number of directly elected deputies which is at least equal to the number of parish presidents plus one. The parishes are administrated by a parish assembly. Traditionally, the north and the autonomous regions are politically more conservative, while the south and the region of Lisbon are dominated by the Left.
The biggest municipalities are those located in rural and inland areas where the dominating property type is the latifundia, such as Beja, Évora or Portalegre in the south, and also in other less populated areas, such as Bragança or Castelo Branco.
The most populated municipalities are those located near the sea, and especially around the metropolitan areas of Lisbon, Porto and Braga, while the less populated municipalities are located in the inland regions of Alentejo and Trás-os-Montes. The municipalities with the lowest population densities are also found in these inland regions, with smaller populations distributed over a greater area.
[edit] Overview
| District | Municipalities | District | Municipalities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aveiro | Leiria | ||
| Beja | Lisbon | ||
| Braga | Portalegre | ||
| Bragança | Oporto | ||
| Castelo Branco | Santarém | ||
| Coimbra | Setúbal | ||
| Évora | Viana do Castelo | ||
| Faro | Vila Real | ||
| Guarda | Viseu | ||
| Autonomous region | Municipalities | Autonomous region | Municipalities |
| Azores | Madeira |
[edit] List
[edit] Aveiro
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
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| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Beja
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Braga
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Bragança
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Castelo Branco
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Coimbra
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
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| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Évora
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Faro
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Guarda
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Leiria
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Lisboa
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Portalegre
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Porto
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Santarém
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Setúbal
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Viana do Castelo
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Vila Real
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
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| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Viseu
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Açores
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Madeira
| Crest | Municipality | Area | Population | Density | No. of Parishes | Ruling Party[1] | |||
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| Km² | Rank | Total | Rank | Pop/km² | Rank | ||||
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[edit] Notes
1. The colors in the "ruling party" field indicate the following parties or coalitions (in brackets, the number of presidencies):
Social Democratic Party (137) Socialist Party (110) Unitarian Democratic Coalition (32) Left Bloc (1) People's Party (1) Social Democratic Party - People's Party (18) Social Democratic Party - People's Party - People's Monarchist Party (1) Social Democratic Party - People's Party - People's Monarchist Party - Earth Party (1) Independents (7)
2. All mayors were elected in the Portuguese local election of 2005, held on October 9, with the exception of Lisbon, who had extraordinary elections on July 15, 2007.
3. A cell with a green background denotes a municipality placed within the first twenty positions of the corresponding ranking. A red background denotes a municipality placed within the last twenty positions of the corresponding ranking.
4. All population, and therefore, all population density data is as of 2004.
5. A municipality with a bolded name indicates the district capital. In the autonomous regions of Azores and Madeira, it indicates a municipality where offices of the regional government are located.
6. In the maps, the archipelagos of Azores and Madeira are not to scale and there are more than 308 different areas because some municipalities are not contiguous, forming enclaves.
[edit] Maps
Portuguese municipalities parties.PNG
Ruling parties per municipality |
Portuguese municipalities districts.PNG
Municipalities within each district or region |
Portuguese municipalities area.PNG
The 20 biggest and the 20 smallest municipalities |
Portuguese municipalities population1.PNG
The 20 most and the 20 least populated municipalities |
Portuguese municipalities density1.PNG
The 20 most and the 20 least densely populated municipalities |
[edit] References
- Municípios Portugueses. Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses. Retrieved on 2006-03-27.
- Eleitos nas Eleições anteriores por Região. PortugalPolitico. Retrieved on 2006-03-27.
- Eleição Autárquica. Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved on 2006-03-27.
- Resultados dos Censos de 2001. Instituto Nacional de Estatística. Retrieved on 2006-03-27.
- Lista das Freguesias. Secretariado Técnico dos Assuntos para o Processo Eleitoral. Retrieved on 2006-03-27.
[edit] See also
- Subdivisions of Portugal
- List of cities in Portugal
- List of towns in Portugal
- List of parishes of Portugal
- Municipality
- Portuguese local election, 2005
[edit] External links
Administrative divisions of Portugal | ||
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| Districts | Aveiro · Beja · Braga · Bragança · Castelo Branco · Coimbra · Évora · Faro · Guarda · Leiria · Lisboa · Portalegre · Porto · Santarém · Setúbal · Viana do Castelo · Vila Real · Viseu | Image:Flag of Portugal.svg |
| Autonomous regions | Azores · Madeira | |
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