http://pedrosimoes.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:24:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://pedrosimoes.wordpress.com http://pedrosimoes.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/portugal/ http://pedrosimoes.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/portugal/#comments Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:18:43 +0000 pedrosimoes http://pedrosimoes.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/portugal/ ]]> As a first post, I’d like to let you know a bit more from the country I come from. Here are some facts and figures that seem, at first sight, the most important ones, and that make Portugal the country it is nowadays… Country: Portugal
Area: 92,389 sq km (35,672 sq mi)
Population: 10 million
Capital City: Lisbon (pop 535,740)
People: 99% Portuguese, 1% African
Language: Portuguese
Religion: 97% Roman Catholic, 2% Protestant, 1% Other
Government: Parliamentary Democracy
President: Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Prime Minister: José Sócrates
Major Industries: Textiles, Footwear, Wood Products, Metalworking, Oil Refining, Chemicals, Fish Canning, Wine, Tourism and Agriculture
Major Trading Partners: EU (esp. Spain, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands & the UK), US
Member of EU: Yes
Euro Zone Participant: Yes
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