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.
