Group
Portuguese people
Portuguese people are an ethnic group indigenous to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and their predominant religion is Christianity, mainly Roman Catholicism.
Portuguese descend from the pre-Celtic, proto-Celtic and Celtic peoples who inhabited the western Iberian Peninsula, such as the Celtici, Lusitanians (proto-Celtic / para-Celtic) and the Gallaeci (Celtic), forming the core identity of the nation, who were then Latinized by the Romans. Other minor segments which left little influence on the population in subsequent periods include the Suebi, the Buri, the Visigoths and the Moors.
Due to the large historical extent of the Portuguese Empire and the colonization of territories in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as historical and recent emigration, Portuguese communities can be found in many diverse regions around the globe, and a large Portuguese diaspora exists.
Portuguese people are a key factor to the Age of Exploration, discovering several lands unknown to the Europeans in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Member Cities
- Abrantes Santarem Portugal Location
- Alcobaça Leiria Portugal Location
- Almeida Guarda Portugal Location
- Angra do Heroísmo Azores Portugal Location
- Arochukwu Cross River Nigeria Location
- Ashmyany Hrodna Belarus Location
- Asunción Central Paraguay Location
- Avissawella > Sitawaka Western Sri Lanka Location
- Bahía > Salvador Bahia Brazil Location
- Banda Aceh (Kuturaja) Atjeh Indonesia Location
- Batavia > Jakarta Jakarta Raya Indonesia Location
- Bathurst > Banjul Banjul Gambia Location
- Bay of Arguin Dakhlet Nouadhibou Mauritania Location
- Benguela Benguela Angola Location
- Benin City Edo Nigeria Location
- Berbera Woqooyi Galbeed Somalia Location
- Bialystok Bialystok Poland Location
- Bié Plateau Angola Location
- Bonny Rivers Nigeria Location
- Borisov Khmel'nyts'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Borodino Moskovskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Braga Braga Portugal Location
- Buenos Aires Distrito Federal Argentina Location
- Cabinda Cabinda Angola Location
- Cape Town (Kaapstad) Western Cape South Africa Location
- Castelo Branco Castelo Branco Portugal Location
- Charleston Charleston South Carolina United States Location
- Cochin > Kochi Kerala India Location
- Coimbra Coimbra Portugal Location
- Colombo Western Sri Lanka Location
- Colonia del Sacramento Colonia Uruguay Location
- Dhaka Dhaka (Dhaka) Bangladesh Location
- Edo > Tokyo Tokyo Japan Location
- Elmina Central Ghana Location
- Georgetown Demerara-Mahaica Guyana Location
- Gondar > Gonder Amhara Ethiopia Location
- Grande Comore Island Grande Comore Island Comoros Location
- Grodno > Hrodna Hrodna Belarus Location
- Guaíra Paraná Brazil Location
- Guimarães Braga Portugal Location
- Honolulu Honolulu (Oahu) Hawaii United States Location
- Hung Yên Hung Yên Vietnam Location
- Kandy Central Sri Lanka Location
- Kediri > Daha Jawa Timur Indonesia Location
- Kotte > Sri Jayawardenapura Western Sri Lanka Location
- Kyoto Kyoto Japan Location
- Lalibela Amhara Ethiopia Location
- Lisbon (Belém) Lisboa Portugal Location
- Lisbon > Lisboa Lisboa Portugal Location
- Lourenço Marques > Maputo Maputo Mozambique Location
- Lovek Kampong Thum Cambodia Location
- Luanda Luanda Angola Location
- Lubumbashi (Élisabethville) Katanga (Shaba) Congo Democratic Republic Location
- M'banza Congo Zaire Angola Location
- Macapá Amapá Brazil Location
- Male Maldives Location
- Malojaroslavec Kaluzhskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Mamoudzou Mayotte Location
- Manaus Amazonas Brazil Location
- Manila Manila Metro Philippines Location
- Mariana Minas Gerais Brazil Location
- Minas Gerais Brazil Location
- Minsk Minsk City Belarus Location
- Mogadishu > Muqdisho Banaadir Somalia Location
- Moletai Utena Lithuania Location
- Mombasa Coast Kenya Location
- Montevideo Montevideo Uruguay Location
- Moscow > Moskva Moskovskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Mthethwa Paramountcy KwaZulu-Natal South Africa Location
- Murshidabad West Bengal India Location
- Nagasaki Nagasaki Japan Location
- Nallur North Eastern Sri Lanka Location
- Nemencine Vilnius Lithuania Location
- Nongoma KwaZulu-Natal South Africa Location
- Nova Goa > Panaji Goa India Location
- Oyo Oyo Nigeria Location
- Palmela Lisbon Portugal Location
- Panamá Panama Panama Location
- Paranaguá Paraná Brazil Location
- Pernambuco > Recife Pernambuco Brazil Location
- Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Thailand Location
- Polotsk > Polatsk Vitsyebsk Belarus Location
- Porto Porto Portugal Location
- Praia Praia Cape Verde Location
- Príncipe da Beira Rondônia Brazil Location
- Pungo Andongo Malange Angola Location
- Pôrto Seguro Bahia Brazil Location
- Recife Pernambuco Brazil Location
- Rio Grande do Sul Brazil Location
- Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil Location
- Río de la Plata Location
- Sagres Faro Portugal Location
- Salvador Bahia Brazil Location
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra Santa Cruz Bolivia Location
- Santarém Santarem Portugal Location
- Shakaskraal KwaZulu-Natal South Africa Location
- Singapore Singapore Location
- Smolensk Smolenskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Sokoto Sokoto Nigeria Location
- St Louis Saint-Louis Senegal Location
- São Paulo São Paulo Brazil Location
- São Pedro do Sul Rio Grande do Sul Brazil Location
- São Salvador > Salvador Bahia Brazil Location
- São Vicente São Paulo Brazil Location
- Ternate Maluku Indonesia Location
- Tomar Santarem Portugal Location
- Trincomalee North Eastern Sri Lanka Location
- Tui Galicia Spain Location
- Valencia de Alcántara Extremadura Spain Location
- Vijayanagara Karnataka India Location
- Vilna > Vilnius Vilnius Lithuania Location
- Zeila (Zaila) Woqooyi Galbeed Somalia Location
- Évora Evora Portugal Location