Editing Portugal (section)

=== Urbanization ===
Based on commuting patterns, OECD and Eurostat define eight [[metropolitan areas of Portugal]].<ref>{{cite web |author=OECD |date=July 2022 |title=Portugal - Functional urban areas |url=http://www.oecd.org/cfe/regional-policy/Portugal.pdf |access-date=2 August 2019 |archive-date=2 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802070220/http://www.oecd.org/cfe/regional-policy/Portugal.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Only two have populations over 1 million, and since the 2013 local government reform, these are the only two which also have administrative legal status of metropolitan areas: [[Lisbon metropolitan area|Lisbon]] and [[Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto|Porto]],<ref name="law75">{{cite web|title=Law nr. 75/2013|url=http://dre.pt/pdf1s/2013/09/17600/0568805724.pdf|access-date=13 August 2014|work=[[Diário da República]]|publisher=[[Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)]]|language=pt|archive-date=26 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226150136/https://dre.pt/application/dir/pdf1s/2013/09/17600/0568805724.pdf%20|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Oliveira">Fernanda Paula Oliveira (2009), {{PDFWayback|url=http://www.cityfutures2009.com/PDF/96_Oliveira_Fernanda_Paula.pdf|title=The Evolution and Regulation of the Metropolitan Areas in Portugal|date=20130204143458|size=677 kB}}</ref> Several smaller metropolitan areas ([[Greater Metropolitan Area of the Algarve|Algarve]], [[Greater Metropolitan Area of Aveiro|Aveiro]], [[Greater Metropolitan Area of Coimbra|Coimbra]], [[Greater Metropolitan Area of Minho|Minho]] and [[Greater Metropolitan Area of Viseu|Viseu]])<ref name="Oliveira"/> also held this status from 2003 to 2008, when they were converted into [[Intermunicipal communities of Portugal|intermunicipal communities]], whose territories are roughly based on the [[Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics|NUTS III]] statistical regions.<ref name="law45">{{cite web|title=Law nr. 45/2008|url=http://www.dre.pt/util/getpdf.asp?s=dip&serie=1&iddr=2008.165&iddip=20082445|access-date=13 August 2014|work=[[Diário da República]]|publisher=[[Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)]]|language=pt|format=PDF|archive-date=2 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202203958/https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/error|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Oliveira"/>
{{Largest cities
| country      = Portugal
| kind         = [[Municipalities of Portugal|Municipalities]]
| stat_ref     = [[Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Portugal)|INE]] 2023 Estimate<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&indOcorrCod=0008272&contexto=bd&selTab=tab2|title=Statistics Portugal - Web Portal|publisher=[[Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Portugal)|INE]]|access-date=5 July 2023|archive-date=18 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618173525/https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&indOcorrCod=0008272&contexto=bd&selTab=tab2|url-status=live}}</ref>
| div_name     = Region

| city_1 = Lisbon
| div_1 = Região de Lisboa{{!}}Lisboa
| pop_1 = 567,131
| img_1 = Aerial view of Augusta Street, Lisbon (50644280948).jpg

| city_2 = Sintra
| div_2 = Região de Lisboa{{!}}Lisboa
| pop_2 = 395,528
|img_2 = Palacio Nacional, Sintra, Portugal, 2019-05-25, DD 78.jpg

| city_3 = Vila Nova de Gaia
| div_3 = Norte Region, Portugal{{!}}Norte
| pop_3 = 311,223
|img_3 = DJI 0006 (36961995516).jpg

| city_4 = Porto
| div_4 = Norte Region, Portugal{{!}}Norte
| pop_4 = 248,769
|img_4 = Metro, Ponte e Porto.jpg

| city_5 = Cascais
| div_5 = Região de Lisboa{{!}}Lisboa
| pop_5 = 219,636
| city_6 = Loures
| div_6 = Região de Lisboa{{!}}Lisboa
| pop_6 = 207,065
| city_7 = Braga
| div_7 = Norte Region, Portugal{{!}}Norte
| pop_7 = 201,583

| city_8 = Almada
| div_8 = Região de Lisboa{{!}}Lisboa
| pop_8 = 181,232

| city_9 = Matosinhos
| div_9 = Norte Region, Portugal{{!}}Norte
| pop_9 = 179,558

| city_10 = Amadora
| div_10 = Região de Lisboa{{!}}Lisboa
| pop_10 = 178,253

| city_11 = Oeiras, Portugal{{!}}Oeiras
| div_11 = Região de Lisboa{{!}}Lisboa
| pop_11 = 175,677

| city_12 = Seixal
| div_12 = Região de Lisboa{{!}}Lisboa
| pop_12 = 173,163

| city_13 = Gondomar, Portugal{{!}}Gondomar
| div_13 = Norte Region, Portugal{{!}}Norte
| pop_13 = 168,582

| city_14 = Guimarães
| div_14 = Norte Region, Portugal{{!}}Norte
| pop_14 = 156,789

| city_15 = Odivelas
| div_15 = Região de Lisboa{{!}}Lisboa
| pop_15 = 153,708

| city_16 = Coimbra
| div_16 = Centro Region, Portugal{{!}}Centro
| pop_16 = 144,822

| city_17 = Maia, Portugal{{!}}Maia
| div_17 = Norte Region, Portugal{{!}}Norte
| pop_17 = 142,594

| city_18 = Santa Maria da Feira
| div_18 = Norte Region, Portugal{{!}}Norte
| pop_18 = 139,837

| city_19 = Vila Franca de Xira
| div_19 = Região de Lisboa{{!}}Lisboa
| pop_19 = 139,452

| city_20 = Vila Nova de Famalicão
| div_20 = Norte Region, Portugal{{!}}Norte
| pop_20 = 135,994

}}