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 writers. Porto is located in Portugal.

Porto, also known 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 just 248,769 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2 (16 sq mi). Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.8 million people (2023) in an area of 2,395 km2 (925 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Read more on Wikipedia