Porto (prt)

Porto

Porto ranks 349th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Dortmund, Winnipeg, and Argentina. Memorable people born in Porto include Prince Henry the Navigator, Manoel de Oliveira, and Uriel da Costa. Memorable people who died in Porto include Charles Albert of Sardinia, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, and Bernardino Machado. Porto has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and soccer players. Porto is located in Portugal.

Porto, also known in English as Oporto, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of 252,687 people in a municipal area of 41.42 km2 (16 sq mi). As of 2025, Porto's urban area has around 1.4 million people in an area of 2,395 km2 (925 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. while the Porto metro area has more than 1.8 million people. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Read more on Wikipedia