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17-565: The Porto Metropolitan Area is a major economic engine in Portugal, with a very high HDI ( Human Development Index ) and a GDP above the European average. Porto has been Portugal's largest manufacturing region since the Industrial Revolution and is home to many of the country's largest corporations. It is chaired by Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues ( PS ). The original Metropolitan Area of Porto

34-467: A city. In Portugal, the city is not an administrative division, therefore a city generally does not necessarily correspond to a municipality , which is the second-level local government in the country. Some entirely urban municipalities do coincide with cities, such as Lisbon , Porto , Funchal , Amadora , Entroncamento , and São João da Madeira . The municipality with the most cities is Paredes Municipality , which contains four cities. Until 1910,

51-419: A later date. Guarda was the first city proclaimed as part of the independent kingdom, in 1199. In Portugal, a locality can only be called a city if more than 8,000 inhabitants live in the city's urban area. In addition, at least half of the following infrastructure must be present: In Portugal there are localities with more than 8,000 inhabitants and with the required infrastructure installed, but not having

68-557: A location was proclaimed city by royal charter ( carta régia ), which happened 25 times to current Portuguese cities (royal charters were also granted to cities of the Portuguese Empire ; for example, São Paulo in 1711). During the Portuguese First Republic , the process was transferred to the parliament, which elevated three towns to the category of city. The dictatorial Estado Novo regime proclaimed seven cities on

85-478: Is a list of cities in Portugal . In Portugal , a city ( Portuguese : cidade ) is an honorific term given to locations that meet several criteria, such as having a minimum number of inhabitants good infrastructure (schools, medical care, cultural and sports facilities), or have a major historical importance. The country's demographic expansion of the 1980s prompted the elevation of several towns to city status and, as of 2018, 159 locations in Portugal are considered

102-598: Is a regional urban system of polycentric nature that encompasses the Porto Metropolitan Area and the sub-regions of Cávado , Ave and Tâmega e Sousa , including cities such as Braga and Guimarães . The Metropolitan area is keen to develop its transportation network. Porto Metro is a Rapid transit system that links the municipalities of Porto , Vila Nova de Gaia , Matosinhos , Gondomar , Maia , Vila do Conde and Póvoa de Varzim . The Porto/ Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport / Pedras Rubras (OPO), between

119-537: Is served by a great number of Motorways linking the main central areas of the metropolitan region and the region with other main Portuguese cities ( cidades portuguesas). Main Harbour: Leixões (Matosinhos). Motorways: List of Portuguese regions by Human Development Index This is a list of NUTS2 statistical regions of Portugal by Human Development Index as of 2022. Cidades This

136-425: Is the capital of the sub-region of Cávado . The city of Funchal is the capital of the autonomous region of Madeira . The city of Coimbra is the capital of the sub-region Região de Coimbra . The following list shows the number of inhabitants and the population density of each respective city. Only the inhabitants living in the urban area are counted, not the inhabitants living in the entire municipality. In

153-494: Is the second largest metropolitan area of Portugal, with about 1.7 million people. It groups the larger Porto Urban Area , the second largest in the country, assembled by the municipalities of Porto, Matosinhos, Vila Nova de Gaia, Gondomar, Valongo and Maia. It also includes three smaller urban areas: Póvoa de Varzim-Vila do Conde, Trofa-Santo Tirso and Santa Maria da Feira-São João da Madeira-Oliveira de Azeméis. The urban-metropolitan agglomeration known as Porto Metropolitan Arch

170-719: The Municipal Elections held in 2013, when he succeeded Rui Rio , mayor of Porto . The Assembleia Metropolitana do Porto (Porto Metropolitan Assembly) is composed of 43 MPs, the PSD party has 20 seats, the PS 16, the CDS 3, CDU 3 and the BE , one. Although the government has halted the intention of creating new metropolitan areas and urban communities, it is keen to ensure greater autonomy to Porto and Lisbon metropolitan areas. The Porto metropolitan area

187-587: The Portuguese mainland (as well as some more in the colonies), this time by government decree. After the 1974 Carnation Revolution , proclamation of cities returned to parliament and now, Portugal has 156 cities, one of the consequences being that the title no longer holds the prestige it once had. Eight locations have been always considered cities since Portugal became an independent kingdom ( de facto 1128): Braga , Coimbra , Lamego , Porto and Viseu , as well as Évora , Lisbon and Silves , which were annexed at

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204-456: The case of large cities like Vila Nova de Gaia , Braga , Coimbra and Setubal , the inhabitants of the entire municipality are not listed, because the municipality does not only include the city, but also other towns and villages around the city, which nevertheless belong to the municipality, but form a separate parish and therefore do not belong to the respective city. In the case of large cities like Lisbon , Porto , Amadora and Funchal ,

221-498: The designation of "city", but rather as "town", for example: Just as there are "cities" being "towns", there are also "towns" being "cities", because they have the required infrastructure in place, but have no more than 8,000 inhabitants or because since the locality received the designation "city" it has lost over the years the 8,000 inhabitants, for example: Portugal's two metropolitan areas, Lisbon with over 2.8 million inhabitants and Porto with over 1.7 million inhabitants, are

238-461: The large city of Porto , but also the cities of Vila Nova de Gaia , Gondomar , Rio Tinto , Póvoa de Varzim , Matosinhos , etc. There are also large cities in Portugal that do not belong to any metropolitan area. These cities are mostly capitals of sub-regions that are not considered metropolitan areas because the population is mainly located in the capital of the sub-region. The city of Braga

255-401: The largest agglomerations in the country. In the two metropolitan areas, in addition to the large cities of Lisbon and Porto , there are other cities that together form the metropolitan area. The Lisbon Metropolitan Area consists of the large city of Lisbon , but also the cities of Amadora , Queluz , Setúbal , Almada , Agualva-Cacém , etc. The Porto Metropolitan Area is made up of

272-621: The municipalities of Maia, Matosinhos , and Vila do Conde , is also one of its greater investments. It was transformed from an old and obsolete airport to a modern transportation centre, linked to Porto Metro . The JMP is also trying to pressure the government to add a TGV line to link Vigo in Galicia to Porto Airport in order to make Porto the air traffic centre of the North-Western Iberian Peninsula and to tighten its historical ties with that Spanish province. Greater Porto

289-563: Was constituted by nine municipalities: Porto (the capital), Espinho , Gondomar , Maia , Matosinhos , Póvoa de Varzim , Vila Nova de Gaia , Valongo , and Vila do Conde . The process of enlargement: The metropolitan area is governed by the Junta Metropolitana do Porto (JMP), headquartered in Avenida dos Aliados, in downtown Porto under the presidency of Hermínio Loureiro , also the mayor of Oliveira de Azeméis municipality, since

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