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 AREA AND POPULATION

1195

Azores (3 districts) and Madeira (1 district), are regarded as an integral part

of the Republic.

Population

Per

Provinces and District*

Areata

sq. mile

Entre Minho-e-Douro: —

sq. miles 1900

-

1911

1911

Vianna do Castello

857 1 215..

J512

Braga ....

1,040 357,159

382,461

343-4

Porto

Tras-os-Montes :— Villa Real

893 | 597,935 2,790 j 1,170,861

679,978

6696

1,289,859

419-5

1,650 242,196

245,687

146-8

2,513 185,162

192,133

73-7

4,163 i 427,358

437,820

1027

Beira:—

1

Aveiro

Vizeo

Castello Branco

1,065 ! S03,16'< 336,243

284 7

1,937 ' 401': 416,860

207-7

1,508 1 332,163 360,056

220S

2,116, 261,630 271,816 2,582 216,608 241,509

123-6 83 9

9,208 1,515,834 | 1,626,484

164-6

Estremadnra : —

Santarem

262,558

181-3

2,555 283,164

110-6

6,937 1.231.41S

853,415

231-5

1,438,726

177 5

Alemtejo : —

" Portalegre .... Evora . . . Beja

Total Continent.

2,405 ! 124,431 141,778

51-7

-.--.-; 128,062 144,307

44 8

9,219 ' 416,105

192,409

41-3

478,584

45-1

1,937 255,191 274.122

131-7

34.254 5,016,267

5,545,595

146-4

Islands : —

Ml 256,291 242,613

277-9

Madeira (Punchal). Total Islands.

314 ; 150,574 16'. 1,230 406,865 412,390

329-2

Grand total.

35,490 5,423,132 j 5,957,985

152-8

In 1911 the population

consisted of 2,828,691 males and 3,131,365

females, or 110 females to

svery hundred males. In 1900 the continental

urban population was 1,627,476 or 324 per cent., and the rural 3.388,791

or 67 '6 per cent.

The chief towns with their population in 1911 were : Lisbon, 435,359 ;

Oporto, 194,009 ; Setubal,

30,346 ; Funchal (Madeira). 24,687 : Braga,

24,647 ; Coimbra, 20,581

Evora, 17,901 ; Ponta Del gad a (Azores),

16,179: Covilha. 15,745;

Faro, 12,680; Tavira, 11,665; Portal-

11,603; Aveiro, 11,523 ; E

vas, 10,645; Castello, 10,486; Beja, 10,113 ;

Angra, do Heroismo (Azores), 10,057.