Porto

Porto (), cried Oporto (Inglis) an aa, is the seicont lairgest ceety in Portugal. Its admeenistrative limits (an aurie o 41.66 km²/16 sq.mi) includes a population of 220,000 inhabitants distributit athin 15 ceevil parishes. The urbanized aurie o Porto, which extends ayont the admeenistrative limits o the ceety, haes a population o 1.1 millionDemographia: World Urban Areas, March 2010 in an area of , making it the second-lairgest urban area in Portugal. The Porto metropolitan aurie includes approximately 1.3 million fowk,Unitit Naitions Depairtment o Economic an Social Affairs, World Urbanization Prospects (2009 revision) , (United Nations, 2010), Table A.12. Data for 2007.European Spatial Planning Observation Network, Study on Urban Functions (Project 1.4.3) , Final Report, Chapter 3, (ESPON, 2007)Thomas Brinkoff, Principal Agglomerations of the World, accessed on 2009-03-12. Data for 2009-01-01. an is recognized as a Gamma-level global ceety bi the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group.

 Internaitional relations 

 Twin touns — Sister ceeties 
Porto is twinned wi:
  Bordeaux, Fraunce
  Bristol, Ingland, UK
  Pernik, Bulgarie
  Duruelo de la Sierra, Castile an León, Spain
  Jena, Germany
  León, Castile an León, Spain  Liège, Belgium
  Macau, Macau
  Shanghai, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
  Nagasaki, Japan
  Vigo, Galicie, Spain

 Pairtner ceeties an touns 
Athin the context o development cooperation, Porto is forby linked tae:
  Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  Beira, Mozambique
  Luanda, Angolae
  Mindelo, Cape Verde  Neves, São Tomé an Príncipe
  Ndola, Zambie
  Recife, Brazil
  Akhisar, Turkey

 References 


Category:Ceeties in Portugal
Category:Populatit coastal places in Portugal
Category:Municipalities o Porto Destrict
Category:Warld Heritage Steids in Portugal
Category:Port ceeties an touns in Portugal
Category:Populatit places in Porto Destrict