LISBON- PORTUGAL

Lisbon is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with a population of 552,700within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km².[ Its urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a

population of around 2.7 million people being the 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union.Lisbon is recognised as a global city because of its importance in finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts, international trade, education and tourism.It is one of the major economic centres on the continent, with a growing financial sector and one of the largest container ports on Europe's Atlantic coast.

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Lisbon Portela Airport serves over 18 million passengers annually, as of 2014,[ and the motorway network and the high-speed rail system of Alfa Pendular link the main cities of Portugal.The city is the 7th-most-visited city in Southern Europe, after Istanbul, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid, Athens and Milan, with 1,740,000 tourists in 2009.

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