The District of Porto ( Portuguese : Distrito do Porto [ˈpoɾtu] ) is located on the north-west coast of Portugal . The district capital is the city of Porto , the second largest city in the country. It is bordered by the Aveiro and Viseu districts to the south, Braga district to the north and Vila Real district to the east.
4-448: Its area is 2,395 km (925 sq mi) and its population is 1,817,172. In 2017, the main legal foreign populations were from Brazil (9,442), China (2,475), Ukraine (2,160), Italy (1,273), Spain (1,189), Angola (1,118), and Cape Verde (1,040). These numbers exclude those who obtained Portuguese citizenship, which is regular among recent Portuguese Brazilians or Portuguese-Africans. The district comprises 18 municipalities: All of
8-409: The 2003 exceptional process and have working permits, and many others are still undocumented. Official numbers, according to Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras , indicated that in 2005 there were 31,353 Brazilians living as legal residents, and other 39,961 had authorizations to stay, making a total of 71,314 people. About 15,000 were able to legalize thanks to the bi-national accord of 2003 (which
12-1328: The above Municipalities are Cities, except Baião and Lousada. Some municipalities include one or more cities;the municipality of Paredes has the most cities within its municipality: Paredes, Gandra , Rebordosa and São Salvador de Lordelo . Other cities in Porto district: Rio Tinto and Valbom (in Gondomar municipality), Ermesinde (in Valongo municipality), São Mamede de Infesta (in Matosinhos municipality), Freamunde (in Paços de Ferreira municipality) and Lixa (in Felgueiras municipality). Porto Airport /Oporto Int.(OPO) Sá Carneiro , mostly located in Pedras Rubras , Moreira , Maia , Grande Porto . Leixões in Matosinhos, Porto area. 41°09′00″N 8°36′36″W / 41.15000°N 8.61000°W / 41.15000; -8.61000 Brazilians in Portugal Brazilians represent approximately 25% of
16-570: The foreign population in Portugal . Their legal status varies according to several and complex elements such as date of arrival and effective legalization processes available to them (1992, 1996, 2001, 2003), whether they are married to a national or they have Portuguese (or other European ) ancestors, what their level of education and work experience is, etc. Therefore, many are legal residents, others have authorization to stay ( autorizações de permanência ), others, fewer, were able to legalized through
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