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Alentejo region
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Alentejo is a large region in southern Portugal that has been officially designated as a NUTS II administrative area by the European Union's statistical classification system. It matters because this designation helps organize Portugal's territory for policy-making, funding distribution, and regional development planning across Europe.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- geographical feature
- Subclass of
- administrative territorial entity
- Has part
- Central Alentejo
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- continental Portugal
- Population
- 705478
- Area
- 31152
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Centro region
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- located in/on physical feature
- continental Portugal
- topic's main category
- Category:Alentejo
- Commons category
- Alentejo
- native label
- Alentejo
- grammatical gender
- masculine
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Encyclopedic overview
Alentejo Region ( European Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐlẽˈtɛʒu] ) is one of the seven NUTS 2 regions of Portugal. It covers all of the historical Alentejo Province and part of the historical Ribatejo and Estremadura provinces.
The greater region is defined within Portugal by the land bordering the left bank of the river Tagus to the North and extending to the South where it borders the Algarve region. The origin of its name, "além" + "Tejo" combined as Alentejo, literally translates to "Beyond-the-Tagus". However, a large part of the subregion Lezíria do Tejo is located on the right bank of the Tagus. The Alentejo is completely located beyond the left margin of the Tagus River.
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