Portugal

Portugal

Portugal ranks 35th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Croatia, Serbia, and Egypt. Memorable people born in present day Portugal include Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, and Bartolomeu Dias. Memorable people who died in Portugal include Prince Henry the Navigator, Charles I of Austria, and António de Oliveira Salazar. Portugal has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, which are the two autonomous regions of Portugal. Lisbon is the capital and largest city, followed by Porto, which is the only other metropolitan area. Read more on Wikipedia