Map of Portugal
Portugal is a sovereign country member of the European Union, constituted as a democratic state of law. It is a transcontinental country, its territory, with capital in Lisbon, is located in southwestern Europe, in the Iberian peninsula. It limits to the east and the north with Spain, and to the south and west with the Atlantic Ocean. It also includes the autonomous archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira located in the northern hemisphere of the Atlantic Ocean.