Portugal

Population: 10,066,253 (July 2001 est.)

Languages: Portuguese

Background: Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil...

Currency: euro (EUR, EUR (€0.78 = US$1))

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