Geography
What is the second biggest city in Portugal?
Porto.
Who brought castles to Portugal?
Romans and Moors.
What are the main colors of the Portuguese flag?
(Scarlet) red and (dark) green.
What language is spoken the most in Portugal?
Portuguese.
How old do you have to be to enlist in the Portuguese Army?
18
What is the name of the biggest volcano in Portugal?
Montanha do Pico, located on Pico Island in the Azores archipelago. At 2,351 meters, it is the highest mountain in Portugal and the highest point of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Who were the first inhabitants of Portugal?
What form of government does Portugal use?
Parliamentary democracy.
How many public airports are there in Portugal?
19 airports.
What is the area size of Portugal?
Portugal's area size is 92,225 square kilometers.
When did Portugal become independent from Spain?
In 1640.
What is the name of the Prime Minister of Portugal?
Luís Montenegro.
What religion is practiced by 94% of all population of Portugal?
Roman Catholic.
In production of what product in Portugal a global leader in?
Portugal produces over 50% of the world's cork supply.
Which ocean does Portugal coast?
The Atlantic Ocean.
How many castles are there in Portugal?
160 castles in total.
What is the national holiday of Portugal?
Portugal's Freedom Day is celebrated annually on April 25th to commemorate the Carnation Revolution of 1974, which overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo regime and established democracy.
What is the Portuguese word for the feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament?
Saudade.
When was Portugal's national soccer team founded?
In 1921.
Which countries share a border with Portugal?
Spain.
What year did the Lisbon Earthquake take place?
In 1755.
Which side did Portugal fight for in WW1?
The Allies.
What is the most popular form of sport in Portugal?
Soccer.
Portuguese is the official language of nine sovereign states: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and East Timor (Timor-Leste).
It is also an official language in the Macau Special Administrative Region of China.