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Portugal: 20 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 20 first-level units down to ADM3, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Map All units Country map
Page GRX-PRT-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO PRT / PTStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
20
first-level units
3,236
units at 3 levels
9,767,350
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Portugal by province, state and territory

20 first-level units and 311 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 20 first-level units of Portugal
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Portugal

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
20 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
311 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · each with its own page
ADM3
2,905 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
03Units

All 20 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication.

Unit కోడ్ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
AVEIRO PT-01 589,322 671,770 2,797 211 6% 50,568
ÉVORA PT-07 143,179 146,683 7,387 19 1.5% 0
BEJA PT-02 125,409 137,949 10,259 12 1.3% 399
BRAGA PT-03 783,575 892,861 2,703 290 8% 6,838
BRAGANÇA PT-04 108,478 114,720 6,587 16 1.1% 0
CASTELO BRANCO PT-05 165,453 171,547 6,620 25 1.7% 0
COIMBRA PT-06 366,740 395,522 3,969 92 3.8% 15,667
FARO PT-08 447,028 452,024 4,995 89 4.6% 83,075
GUARDA PT-09 124,460 134,296 5,528 23 1.3% 0
LEIRIA PT-10 408,819 434,408 3,503 117 4.2% 8,010
LISBOA PT-11 2,356,669 2,244,472 2,814 837 24.1% 66,873
PORTALEGRE PT-12 95,323 96,492 6,077 16 1% 0
PORTO PT-13 1,746,565 1,713,455 2,329 750 17.9% 25,031
Região Autónoma da Madeira PT-30 192,427 177,640 802 240 2% 73
Região Autónoma dos Açores PT-20 154,545 169,325 2,325 66 1.6% 1,780
SANTARÉM PT-14 407,101 440,611 6,711 61 4.2% 41,128
SETÚBAL PT-15 863,061 843,251 5,212 166 8.8% 104,577
VIANA DO CASTELO PT-16 198,251 211,573 2,215 90 2% 15,265
VILA REAL PT-17 166,711 185,767 4,301 39 1.7% 0
VISEU PT-18 324,234 345,250 5,004 65 3.3% 0
04ప్రమాదం

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Portugal publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05మూలాలు

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PRT ADM1, source: DG Territory © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2016. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PRT ADM2, source: Wikipedia, licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · source · represents 2020
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PRT ADM3, source: geoBoundaries, DG Territory, licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · source · represents 2021
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
దేశాలు
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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