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Portugal is a strip of coast about 560 kilometres long and rarely more than 220 wide, so a round on the mainland comes down to how far north or south you are and how far you are from the sea. The district is the unit that settles it, and the two island regions are the part of the country that a map of the mainland leaves out.
The districts (distritos) of the mainland, plus the Azores and Madeira. The islands are autonomous regions rather than districts, and are on the map because a quiz that left them out would leave out two of the places a Portuguese round is most likely to land.
The Azores and Madeira are not where they are on the map. They lie one to two thousand kilometres out in the Atlantic, so they are drawn in the sea beside the mainland, behind a dashed rule, at their true size and with their true shapes. The Azores are nine islands in three groups, and the answer is any of them: the label sits on São Miguel, the largest. Madeira is the main island with Porto Santo to its north east, and the Desertas, which are small enough that they only show up as a few specks.
The groups are the areas people sort the country into. The north is the Minho and Trás-os-Montes, the centre runs from the Beiras down to the Tagus, the Lisbon region is the capital's district and Setúbal across the river, and the south is the Alentejo and the Algarve. The districts are the Portugal Municipalities grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Beja is the largest district on the mainland, and one of the emptiest: it is the plain of the lower Alentejo, with the Guadiana along part of its eastern border.
Lisbon is a small district, and the one with the most people in it. It is the shape on the north bank of the Tagus mouth, and Setúbal is its neighbour across the water.
The Azores are one answer, and any of the nine islands counts. The label is on São Miguel, the largest and the one at the east end.
No. They are autonomous regions, each with its own government, and they sit outside the district system. They are in the quiz because they are the rest of the country.
Drawn where they are, the mainland would be a sliver in a corner of the map. They keep their size and shape, and the dashed rule marks that they have been moved.
As a way of saying where a place is, yes: a district is what a Portuguese address and a road map still use. The administrative work has mostly moved to the municipalities and the intermunicipal communities.
The tier below this one is Portugal Municipalities. For another country at this level, see Spain Provinces.
