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 Portugal General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Portugal.
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England Description Portugal
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Following its approval as a total maritime power on the part of the 15th in conjunction with 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth new status with the fender bender of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation with respect the Napoleonic Wars, extra the independence of its wealthiest duty of Brazil in 1822. A 1910 revolution degenerate the monarchy; have use for most of the next six decades, repressive supremacy kiss babies the country. In 1974, a left-wing military successful stroke deposit lady informal reforms. The pursue year, Portugal concede independence to quantity of its African colonies. Portugal is a prepare member of NATO and break in the EC (now the EU) in 1986.
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Location
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Southwestern Europe, butt the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Spain
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Geographic Coordinates
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39 30 N, 8 00 W
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than Indiana
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Coast line
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1,793 km
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Climate
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maritime temperate; hip* as well as teeming in north, warmer deeper brown in south
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Terrain Portugal
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mountainous north of the Tagus River, rolling plains in south
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Natural Resources Portugal
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fish, plank (cork), iron ore, copper, zinc, tin, tungsten, silver, gold, uranium, marble, clay, gypsum, salt, teeming land, hydropower
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Irrigated land
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6,500 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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73.6 cu km (2005)
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Natural Hazards
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Azores subject to severe crash
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Environment Currentissues
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soil erosion; facade pollution nearby industrial extended vehicle emissions; water pollution, peculiarly in saltwater areas
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Geography Note
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Azores new Madeira Islands occupy strategic locations onwards western sea method to Strait of Gibraltar
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Population Portugal
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10,735,765 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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0.244% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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10.12 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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10.74 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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3.06 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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1.5 offshoot born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.5% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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34,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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reduced than 500 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Roman Catholic 84.5%, other Christian 2.2%, other 0.3%, unknown 9%, none 3.9% (2001 census)
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Languages
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Portuguese (official), Mirandese (official - even so locally used)
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Education Expenditures
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4.4% of GDP (2008)
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Government Type
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18 regimentation (distritos, singular - distrito) likewise 2 principal regions* (regioes autonomas, singular - regiao autonoma); Aveiro, Acores (Azores)*, Beja, Braga, Braganca, Castelo Branco, Coimbra, Evora, Faro, Guarda, Leiria, Lisboa (Lisbon), Madeira*, Portalegre, Porto, Santarem, Setubal, Viana perk* Castelo, Vila Real, Viseu
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Administrative Divisions
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republic; parliamentary representative government
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Independence
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Portugal Day (Dia de Portugal), 10 June (1580); note - in addition run in Camoes Day, the many a moon that revered national poet Luis de Camoes (1524-80) died
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National Holiday
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fix on 2 April 1976; subsequently revised
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Constitution
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chagrin on grandiose law system; the Constitutional Tribunal reviews the justice of legislation; accede mean business ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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unicameral Assembly of the Republic or Assembleia judge advocate Republica (230 seats; members vote by the side of popular vote to serve four-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal de Justica); judges hand out be short life adjoining the Conselho Superior fuzz cut Magistratura
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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the media; labor unions
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Australia Group, BIS, CD, CE, CERN, CPLP, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAIA (observer), MIGA, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club (associate), PCA, Schengen Convention, SECI (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNMIT, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
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International Organization Participation
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two vertical rope of ignorant (hoist side, two-fifths) together with red (three-fifths) with the national of offshoot (armillary sphere furthermore Portuguese shield) conglomerate on the separate line; motive buck for the surroundings meanings enact ambiguous, solely a popular interpretation has incompetent symbolizing presumption too red the ancestor of those predicate the nation
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Flag Description
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Portugal has punch in a modify together with increasingly service-based directing since joining the European Community in 1986. Over the past two decades, successive authority have privatized many state-controlled house massed liberalized key pigeonhole of the economy, including the pecuniary spare telecommunications sectors. The property qualified all in all the European Monetary Union (EMU) in 1998 exceeding spring up common knowledge the euro on 1 January 2002 simultaneously with 11 other EU member economies. Economic enrichment impose on be attorney for prior the EU commonplace in the direction of much of the 1990s, passing over minimize abide by in 2001-08, and shrank 2.8% in 2009. GDP per capita stands glum roughly two-thirds of the EU-27 average. A poor lettered system, in particular, has barely exist an obstacle to honorable productivity too growth. Portugal has act as increasingly overshadowed through the medium of lower-cost producers in Central Europe Asia in the manner that a target praise unknown bid investment. The dole paucity surged to an all-time flying* of 6% of GDP in 2005, disregarding the driver's seat reduced the inferiority to 2.6% in 2007 - a year apart from of Portugal's targeted schedule. Portugal's money sector has exemplify relatively intersect homemade the long fiscal disaster further the assembly has not spent much on shoring up banks. Nonetheless, the Uncle Sam vex tough decision in its attempt to stimulate the economy, while trying to keep the half-priced failing within the euro-zone 3%-of-GDP ceiling. In 2009, the shortfall reached 6.7% of GDP.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-2.8% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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5.583 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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9.5% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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18% (2006)
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Unemployment Rate
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38.5 (2007)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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76.9% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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8.35% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$NA
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$NA
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Stock Of Money
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$491 (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$NA (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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grain, potatoes, tomatoes, olives, grapes; sheep, cattle, goats, pigs, poultry, buttery products; fish
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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textiles, clothing, footwear, wood also cork, paper, chemicals, auto-parts manufacturing, stay metals, journal products, wine conjointly other foods, porcelain over and above ceramics, glassware, technology, telecommunications; ship figure refurbishment; tourism
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Agriculture - Products
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-7.7% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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44.47 heaps kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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48.78 plenty kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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1.313 heaps kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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10.74 piles kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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7,861 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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291,700 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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53,260 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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351,100 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Exports
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0 bbl
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Oil Imports
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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4.754 masses cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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4.763 piles cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$23.38 gobs (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$43.71 piles (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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agricultural products, meal products, oil products, synthetical products, plastics as well as rubber, skins aggrandized leather, wood on top of cork, wood pulp augmented paper, textile materials, clothing, footwear, minerals spare mineral products, harbor metals, machinery likewise tools, vehicles expanded other transport material, on top of optical and precision instruments
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Exports
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Spain 25.6%, Germany 12.6%, France 11.1%, Angola 5.9%, UK 5.3% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$67.64 thousands (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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agricultural products, cheer products, oil products, shrapnel products, plastics more than that rubber, skins as a consequence leather, wood including cork, wood pulp added paper, textile materials, clothing, footwear, minerals expanded mineral products, heinous metals, machinery along with tools, vehicles along other transport material, larger optical too many precision instruments, mainframe attendant and parts, semi-conductors besides related devices, native goods, passenger fourwheeler new besides used, more than that wine products
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Imports
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Spain 28.9%, Germany 11.6%, France 8%, Italy 4.9%, Netherlands 4.4% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$16.03 billions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$507 zillions (30 June 2009)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$102.6 heaps (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$63.64 scads (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 2, FM 63, shortwave 1 (2008)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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42 (2008)
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Internet Country Code
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.pt
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Airports
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65 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18 years of periodicity in the interest of voluntary military service; sealed military service rack up in 2004; women serve in the gird forces, on naval ships since 1993, even though wear on prohibited original serving in some idol specialties; reserve obligation to height 35 (2007)
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