Porto District

District of Porto
District
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Portugal
Region	Norte
Historical province	Douro Litoral
No. of municipalities	18
No. of parishes	383
Capital	Porto
Area
• Total	2,395 km2 (925 sq mi)
Population
• Total	1,817,172
• Density	760/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
ISO 3166 code	PT-13
No. of parliamentary representatives	39

The District of Porto (Portuguese: Distrito do Porto [ˈpoɾtu] ^ⓘ) is located on the north-west coast of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Porto, the second largest city in the country. It is bordered by the Aveiro and Viseu districts to the south, Braga district to the north and Vila Real district to the east.

Its area is 2,395 km² (925 sq mi) and its population is 1,817,172. In 2017, the main legal foreign populations were from Brazil (9,442), China (2,475), Ukraine (2,160), Italy (1,273), Spain (1,189), Angola (1,118), and Cape Verde (1,040). These numbers exclude those who obtained Portuguese citizenship, which is regular among recent Portuguese Brazilians or Portuguese-Africans.^[1]