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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 (€0.67 = US$1))

Data from CIA World Factbook. Click on CIA link for more. Click on map or flag for larger images.

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Related Links

 · Luc Devroye: The font scene in Portugal
 · CIA World Factbook: Portugal
 · Ethnologue: Languages of Portugal
 · BBC Country profile: Portugal

Portuguese Font Foundries

 · DSType
 · Feliciano
 · Loligovulgaris
 · Rui Abreu
 · Susana Simplício
 · Vanarchiv
 · yrmk

Portuguese Typographic People

 · Rui Abreu
 · Patricia Carvalho
 · Hugo d'Alte
 · Dino dos Santos
 · Mário Feliciano
 · Fábio Duarte Martins
 · Joel Santos
 · Ricardo Santos
 · Susana Simplício
 · Joaquim José Ventura da Silva



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