Portuguese Republic República Portuguesa CAPITAL: Lisbon (Lisboa) FLAG: The national flag, adopted in 1911, consists of a green field at the hoist and a larger red field. At the junction of the two, in yellow, red, blue, and white, is the...

In Europe of the early 2000s there is widespread belief that the United States-led "War on Drugs" has been a failure. There have been two opposing European models of handling narcotics issues: the strict criminal treatment of drug users and...

Portugal POPULATION 10,084,245 ROMAN CATHOLIC 89 percent PROTESTANT 4 percent OTHER CHRISTIAN 3 percent OTHER 1 percent NONE 3 percent Country Overview Introduction The Portuguese Republic, located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, is...

Portugal Portugal is located at the southwestern tip of Europe, bordering Spain in the north and east, and the Atlantic Ocean in the west and south. It has a land area of 91,640 square kilometers (35,400 square miles), including the Atlantic...

country lying along the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. Once continental Europe's greatest power, Portugal shares commonalities—geographic and cultural—with the countries of both northern Europe and the...

Portugal, situated on the Iberian Peninsula between Spain and the Atlantic Ocean, has been an independent state since 1640. The state was governed by a dictatorship in 1928–74 under António Salazar (1928–68) and Marcello Caetano...

Country, on the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula, southwestern Europe. Area: 35,580 sq mi (92,152 sq km). Population (2005 est.): 10,513,000. Capital: Lisbon. Most of the people are Portuguese. Language: Portuguese (official). Religion: Christianity...

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic[2] (Portuguese: República Portuguesa[3]; IPA: [ÊÉËpublikÉ puɾtuËgezÉ]), is a country in southwestern Europe,[4] on the Iberian Peninsula. Being the westernmost country of mainland Europe, Portugal is...