Location:
Southwestern Europe, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Spain
Geographic coordinates:
39 30 N, 8 00 W
Map references:
Europe
Area: Area - comparative:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Portugal on this page is re-published from the 2020 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Portugal Geography 2020 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Portugal Geography 2020 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
total: 92,090 sq km
[see also: Area - total country ranks ]
land: 91,470 sq km
[see also: Area - land country ranks ]
water: 620 sq km
note: includes Azores and Madeira Islands
country comparison to the world (CIA rank, may be based on non-current data):
112
slightly smaller than Virginia
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may have the following issues:
a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assigns counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order.
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