Porto
| Porto | |||
| Municipality (Concelho) | |||
 Frae top tae richt: Torre dos Clérigos; Palácio da Bolsa; Liberdade Square; St. Francis Church; Episcopal Palace o Porto; Porto Ceety Haw; Ribeira hooses
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| Offeecial name: Concelho do Porto | |||
| Name oreegin: oporto, Portuguese compoond airticle an subject for port | |||
| Nickname: A Cidade Invicta (The Unvanquished Ceety) | |||
| Kintra |  Portugal
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| Region | Norte | ||
| Subregion | Grande Porto | ||
| Destrict | Porto | ||
| Municipality | Porto | ||
| Ceevil pairishes | Aldoar, Bonfim, Campanhã, Cedofeita, Foz do Douro, Lordelo do Ouro, Massarelos, Miragaia, Nevogilde, Paranhos, Ramalde, São Nicolau, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Vitória | ||
| River | Douro | ||
| Centre | Cedofeita | ||
| - elevation | 104 m (341 ft) | ||
| Heichest pynt | Monte Tadeu | ||
| - elevation | 149 m (489 ft) | ||
| Lowest point | Sea level | ||
| - location | Atlantic Ocean, Foz do Douro, Porto | ||
| - elevation | 0 m (0 ft) | ||
| Lenth | 11.57 km (7 mi), Northwast-Sootheast | ||
| Width | 5.31 km (3 mi), North-Sooth | ||
| Area | 41.42 km2 (16 sq mi) | ||
| - urban | 389 km2 (150 sq mi) | ||
| - metro | 1,883.61 km2 (727 sq mi) | ||
| Population | 237,584 (2011) | ||
| - urban | 1,397,805 | ||
| - metro | 1,672,664 | ||
| Density | 5,735.97/km2 (14,856/sq mi) | ||
| Dounset | 275 BC | ||
| - Municipality | 868 | ||
| LAU | Concelho/Câmara Municipal | ||
| - location | Praça General Humberto Delgado, Santo Ildefonso, Porto | ||
| - elevation | 120 m (394 ft) | ||
| Preses | Rui Moreira (Independent, supportit bi CDS-PP) | ||
| Municipal Chair | Daniel Bessa (Independent) | ||
| Timezone | WET (UTC0) | ||
| - summer (DST) | WEST (UTC+1) | ||
| ISO 3166-2 code | PT- | ||
| Postal Zone | 4000-286 Porto | ||
| Aurie Code & Prefix | (+351) 22[1] | ||
| UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid | |||
| Name | Historic Centre o Porto | ||
| Year | 1996 (#20) | ||
| Number | 755 | ||
| Region | Europe an North Americae | ||
| Criteria | iv | ||
| Demonym | Portuense | ||
| Patron Saunt | Nossa Senhora de Vandoma | ||
| Municipal Address | Praça General Humberto Delgado, 266 4000-286 Porto | ||
| Municipal Holidays | 24 Juin (São João) | ||
 Location of the municipality of Porto in continental Portugal
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| Wikimedia Commons: Porto | |||
| Stateestics: Instituto Nacional de Estatística[2] | |||
| Website: http://www.cm-porto.pt | |||
| Geographic detail from CAOP (2010)[3] produced by Instituto Geográfico Português (IGP) | |||
Porto (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpoɾtu]), an aa kent as Oporto (Inglis), is the seicont lairgest ceety in Portugal. Its admeenistrative limits (an aurie o 41.66 km²/16 sq.mi) includes a population of 220,000 inhabitants distributit athin 15 ceevil parishes. The urbanized aurie o Porto, which extends ayont the admeenistrative limits o the ceety, haes a population o 1.1 million[4][5] in an area of 389 km2 (150 sq mi),[4] making it the second-lairgest urban area in Portugal. The Porto metropolitan aurie includes approximately 1.3 million fowk,[6][7][8] an is recognized as a Gamma-level global ceety bi the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group.
Internaitional relations
Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Pairtner ceeties an touns
Athin the context o development cooperation, Porto is an aa linked tae:
References
- ↑ "Portugal International Dialing Code". Retrieved 12 September 2010.
- ↑ INE, ed. (2010), Censos 2011 - Resultadas Preliminares (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: Instituto Nacional de Estatística, retrieved 1 Julie 2011 Unknown parameter
|trans_title=ignored (help) - ↑ IGP, ed. (2010), Carta Administrativa Oficial de Portugal (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: Instituto Geográfico Português, retrieved 1 Julie 2011 [deid airtin]
- ↑ a b Demographia: World Urban Areas, March 2010
- ↑ Urban Audit – Larger Urban Zone. "Lisboa".
- ↑ Unitit Naitions Depairtment o Economic an Social Affairs, World Urbanization Prospects (2009 revision), (United Nations, 2010), Table A.12. Data for 2007.
- ↑ European Spatial Planning Observation Network, Study on Urban Functions (Project 1.4.3), Final Report, Chapter 3, (ESPON, 2007)
- ↑ Thomas Brinkoff, Principal Agglomerations of the World, accessed on 2009-03-12. Data for 2009-01-01.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k "International Relations of the City of Porto" (PDF). © 2006–2009 Municipal Directorateofthe PresidencyServices InternationalRelationsOffice. Retrieved 10 Julie 2009.
- ↑ "Bristol City – Town twinning". © 2009 Bristol City Council. Retrieved 17 Julie 2009. freemit airtin in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Sister Cities of Nagasaki City". © 2008–2009 International Affairs Section Nagasaki City Hall. Retrieved 10 Julie 2009. freemit airtin in
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