Lisbon (Portuguese: Lisboa; Portuguese pronunciation: [liʒˈboɐ]) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Portugal, wi a population o 564,657 athin its admeenistrative limits on a land aurie o 84.8 km2 (33 sq mi). The urban aurie o Lisbon extends ayont the admeenistrative ceety limits wi a population o 2.4 million on a aurie o 958 km2 (370 sq mi), it is the 12t maist populous urban aurie in the European Union. Aboot 2,831,000 fowk live in the Lisbon Metropolitan Aurie (which represents approximately 27% o the population o the kintra) an 3.34 million fowk live in the broader agglomeration o Lisbon Metropolitan Region (includes ceeties rangin froe Leiria tae Setúbal). Lisbon is the wastrenmaist lairge ceety locatit in Europe, as well as its wastrenmaist caipital ceety. It lies in the wastren Iberie Peninsulae on the Atlantic Ocean an the Tagus River, aboot 320 km (198.84 mi) northwast o Cape Spartel in Africae.