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Lisbon is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with a population of 552,700 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km².

Its urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.7 million people, being the 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union.

About 2.8 million people live in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (which represents approximately 27% of the country's population).

It is continental Europe's westernmost capital city and the only one along the Atlantic coast.

Lisbon lies in the western Iberian Peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean and the River Tagus.

The westernmost areas of its metro area is the westernmost point of Continental Europe.

The Portugal News is a national weekly newspaper in English published in Portugal.

History and profile.

Portuguese (or, in full) is a Romance language and the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

It also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau.

As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese and Portuguese creole speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India; in Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka; in the Indonesian island of Flores; in Malacca of Malaysia; and the ABC islands in the Caribbean where Papiamento is spoken, while Cape Verdean Creole is the most widely spoken Porteguese-based Creole.

The Algarve (from al-Gharb "the West") is the southernmost region of continental Portugal.

It has an area of with 451,006 permanent inhabitants, and incorporates 16 municipalities.

The region has as its administrative centre in the city of Faro, where both the region's international airport (FAO) and public university, University of Algarve, are located.

Tourism and related activities are extensive and make up the bulk of the Algarve's summer economy.

Production of food, which includes fish and other seafood, fruit, oranges, carob beans, figs and almonds, is also economically important in the region.

The Algarve is the most popular tourist destination in Portugal, and one of the most popular in Europe.

Its population triples to nearly 1.5 million people in the peak holiday season thanks to seasonal residents, and receives an average of 7 million foreign tourists each year.

In total, including national visitors, almost 10 million people visit the Algarve annually.

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the global lingua franca.

Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, it ultimately derives its name from the Anglia (Angeln) peninsula in the Baltic Sea.

It is most closely related to the Frisian languages, although its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages in the early medieval period, and later by Romance languages, particularly French.

English is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states.

It is the most commonly spoken language in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand, and is widely spoken in some areas of the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia.

It is the third most common native language in the world, after Mandarin and Spanish.

It is the most widely learned second language and an official language of the United Nations, of the European Union, and of many other world and regional international organisations.

It is the most widely spoken Germanic language, accounting for at least 70% of speakers of this Indo-European branch.