Editing Azores (section)

==Demographics==
{{Historical populations
| 1864 | 249135
| 1878 | 263305
| 1890 | 255487
| 1900 | 256673
| 1911 | 242941
| 1920 | 231543
| 1930 | 255464
| 1940 | 287080
| 1950 | 318459
| 1960 | 327476
| 1970 | 289096
| 1981 | 243410
| 1991 | 237795
| 2001 | 241763
| 2011 | 246772
| 2021 | 236413
}}
[[File:SMG_PDL_SantoCristo_mass2.JPG|thumb|right|170px|Azoreans during a religious festival]]
The Azores are divided into 19 municipalities ({{lang|pt|concelhos}}); each municipality is further divided into ''[[freguesia]]s'' (civil administrative parishes), of which there is a [[List of parishes of Portugal|total of 156]] in all of the Azores.

There are six cities ({{lang|pt|cidades}}) in the Azores: [[Ponta Delgada]], [[Lagoa (Azores)|Lagoa]] and [[Ribeira Grande, São Miguel|Ribeira Grande]] on the island of São Miguel; [[Angra do Heroísmo]] and [[Praia da Vitória]] on the island of Terceira, and [[Horta (Azores)|Horta]] on Faial. Three of these, [[Ponta Delgada]], [[Angra (Azores)|Angra]] and [[Horta (Azores)|Horta]] are considered [[Capital (political)|capital/administrative cities]] to the regional government: homes to the President (Ponta Delgada), the Judiciary (Angra) and the Regional Assembly (Horta). Angra also serves as the ecclesiastical centre of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Angra]], the episcopal see of the Azores.
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! rowspan="2" style="width:100pt;"| Island !! rowspan="2" style="width:75pt;"|Group!! colspan="2" style="width:100pt;"| Population<ref name="INE">{{citation |url=http://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_publicacoes&PUBLICACOESpub_boui=131011251&PUBLICACOEStema=5414321&PUBLICACOESmodo=2 |title=Censos 2011 – Resultadas Preliminares |trans-title=2011 Census – Preliminary Results |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estatística |location=Lisbon, Portugal |language=pt |access-date=1 January 2012 |year=2010 |editor=INE |editor-link=Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Portugal) |archive-date=15 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215060117/https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_publicacoes&PUBLICACOESpub_boui=131011251&PUBLICACOEStema=5414321&PUBLICACOESmodo=2 |url-status=live }}</ref>
!colspan="2"|[[Municipalities of Portugal|Municipalities]] of the Azores!! rowspan="2" style="width:150pt;"| Main Settlement
|-
! style="text-align:right; width:75pt;"|2021!! style="text-align:right; width:75pt;" |% Total!! style="text-align:right; width:50pt;"|No!! style="text-align:left; width:550pt;"|Municipalities (''[[Concelho]]'')
|-
| [[São Miguel Island|São Miguel]] ||Eastern||align="right"| 133,295 || align="right" | 56.38
| style="text-align:center;"| 6 ||[[Lagoa, Azores|Lagoa]], [[Nordeste, Azores|Nordeste]], [[Ponta Delgada]], [[Povoação]], [[Ribeira Grande, São Miguel|Ribeira Grande]], [[Vila Franca do Campo]] ||[[Ponta Delgada]]
|-
| [[Terceira Island|Terceira]] ||Central||align="right"| 53,244 || align="right" | 22.52
| style="text-align:center;"| 2||[[Angra do Heroísmo]], [[Praia da Vitória]] ||[[Angra do Heroísmo]]
|-
| [[Faial Island|Faial]] ||Central||align="right"| 14,334 || align="right" | 6.06
| style="text-align:center;"| 1||[[Horta (Azores)|Horta]] ||[[Horta (Azores)|Horta]]
|-
| [[Pico Island|Pico]] ||Central||align="right"| 13,883 || align="right" | 5.87
| style="text-align:center;"| 3||[[Lajes do Pico]], [[Madalena (Azores)|Madalena]], [[São Roque do Pico]] ||[[Madalena (Azores)|Madalena]]
|-
| [[São Jorge Island|São Jorge]] ||Central||align="right"| 8,373 || align="right" | 3.54
| style="text-align:center;"| 2||[[Calheta (Azores)|Calheta]], [[Velas, Azores|Velas]] ||[[Velas, Azores|Velas]]
|-
| [[Santa Maria Island|Santa Maria]] ||Eastern||align="right"| 5,408 || align="right" | 2.29
| style="text-align:center;"| 1||[[Vila do Porto]] ||[[Vila do Porto]]
|-
| [[Graciosa Island|Graciosa]] ||Central||align="right"| 4,091 || align="right" | 1.73
| style="text-align:center;"| 1||[[Santa Cruz da Graciosa]] ||[[Santa Cruz da Graciosa]]
|-
| [[Flores Island (Azores)|Flores]] ||Western||align="right"| 3,428 || align="right" | 1.45
| style="text-align:center;"| 2||[[Lajes das Flores]], [[Santa Cruz das Flores]] ||[[Santa Cruz das Flores]]
|-
| [[Corvo Island|Corvo]] ||Western||align="right"| 384 || align="right" | 0.16
| style="text-align:center;"| 1||[[Corvo, Azores|Vila do Corvo]] ||[[Vila do Corvo]]
|-
| Total |||| style="text-align:right;"| 236,440 ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 19||||
|}

===Population===
[[File:Ilha de São Miguel DSC00659 (36586155410) (cropped) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Ponta Delgada, on São Miguel Island, is the largest city in the Azores.]]
[[File:Angra do heroismo garden view (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Angra do Heroísmo, on Terceira Island, is [[UNESCO World Heritage]].]]

According to the 2019 Census, population in the Azores was 242,796.<ref name=ine2021>[https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&contecto=pi&indOcorrCod=0008273&selTab=tab0 "População residente".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105115121/https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&contecto=pi&indOcorrCod=0008273&selTab=tab0 |date=5 November 2016 }} Instituto Nacional de Estadística. Retrieved 13 November 2020.</ref> The Azores were uninhabited when Portuguese navigators arrived in the early 15th century; settlement began in 1439 with migrants from mainland Portugal as well as Spaniards, [[Sephardic Jews]], [[Moors]], Italians, Flemings, and Africans from [[Guinea]], [[Cape Verde]] and [[São Tomé and Príncipe]].<ref name="HLA Class I and II profiles in São">{{cite journal |last1=Pacheco |first1=Paula R. |last2=Branco |first2=Claudia C. |last3=Gomes |first3=Cidália T. |last4=Cabral |first4=Rita |last5=Mota-Vieira |first5=Luisa |date=12 May 2010 |title=HLA Class I and II profiles in São Miguel Island (Azores): genetic diversity and linkage disequilibrium |journal=BMC Research Notes |volume=3 |issue=134 |pages=134 |doi=10.1186/1756-0500-3-134 |pmc=2883542 |pmid=20462405 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

The first Sephardic Jews in the Azores were slaves after their expulsion from Portugal by King [[Manuel I of Portugal|Manuel I]] in 1496. The islands sometimes served as a waypoint for ships carrying [[Atlantic slave trade|African slaves]].<ref name="Colonialism: An International, Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFTHBoRvQbsC&pg=PA42 |title=Colonialism: An International, Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia |author1=Page, Melvin Eugene |author2=Penny M. Sonnenburg |name-list-style=amp |isbn=978-1-57607-335-3 |year=2003 |publisher=Abc-Clio |access-date=20 March 2018 |archive-date=25 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325033933/https://books.google.com/books?id=qFTHBoRvQbsC&pg=PA42 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Emigration===
Since the 17th century, many Azoreans have emigrated, mainly to Brazil, Uruguay, the United States and Canada.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.csustan.edu/bsantos/azores.html |title=Azores Islands |publisher=Library.csustan.edu |date=17 January 1997 |access-date=5 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512001602/https://www.library.csustan.edu/bsantos/azores.html |archive-date=12 May 2008}}</ref> [[Rhode Island]] and southeastern [[Massachusetts]] are the primary destination for Azorean emigrants.<ref>{{cite web |author=da Silva, Lurdes C. 22 August 2008 |url=http://www.ojornal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20087125&BRD=2677&PAG=461&dept_id=543384&rfi=6 |title=Mass.- Azores links inked |publisher=O Jornal |date=22 August 2008 |access-date=5 May 2009}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> From 1921 to 1977, about 250,000 Azoreans immigrated to Rhode Island and Massachusetts.<ref>[http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/immigr.html "Azorean Immigration into the United States"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203140318/http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/immigr.html |date=3 February 2009}}. Library.csustan.edu.</ref> Northern [[California]] was the final destination for many of the Massachusetts immigrants who then moved on to the [[San Joaquin Valley]], especially the city of [[Turlock, California|Turlock]]. In the late 19th century many Azoreans [[Portuguese immigration to Hawaii|immigrated to the Hawaiian islands]].<ref name="diaspora" /> The [[tuna]] fishing industry drew a significant number of Azoreans to the [[Point Loma, San Diego|Point Loma]] neighborhood of [[San Diego]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Orbach |first=Michael K. |title=Hunters, Seamen, and Entrepreneurs: The Tuna Seinermen of San Diego |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H16MRRFQMW8C&pg=PA7 |year=1977 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-03348-1 |page=7 |access-date=22 November 2015 |archive-date=25 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325033943/https://books.google.com/books?id=H16MRRFQMW8C&pg=PA7 |url-status=live }}</ref> During the [[Great Recession]] of the early 21st century, Portugal was in a recession from 2011 until 2013, which resulted in high levels of unemployment across the mainland as well as the Azores.<ref>{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Portugal|access-date=25 December 2019 |year=2019}}</ref> The Great Recession led to an increase of emigration from the Azores.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Minder |first=Raphael |date=4 June 2015 |title=Azorean Diaspora Can't Resist the Powerful Pull of Home |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/world/europe/azores-diaspora-holy-christ-of-miracles.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/world/europe/azores-diaspora-holy-christ-of-miracles.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited |access-date=25 December 2019 |issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

[[Florianópolis]] and [[Porto Alegre]] in the [[South Region, Brazil|Southern Region]] of Brazil were founded by Azoreans, who accounted for over half of [[Rio Grande do Sul]] and [[Santa Catarina (state)|Santa Catarina]]'s populations in the late 18th century.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.terrabrasileira.net/folclore/regioes/7tipos/acores.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231170219/http://www.terrabrasileira.net/folclore/regioes/7tipos/acores.html |url-status=usurped |title=Imigrantes: Açorianos|archive-date=31 December 2007}}</ref> As late as 1960, mass immigration currents were registered to Brazil, and many were from the Azores.<ref name="diaspora">Russell King, John Connell (1999). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=8asL17kRGToC&pg=PA61 Small worlds, global lives: islands and migration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325033931/https://books.google.com/books?id=8asL17kRGToC&pg=PA61 |date=25 March 2019 }}''. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 61–65. {{ISBN|1-85567-548-X}}</ref>