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Find correct name The airport is not listed as João Paulo II anywhere. The airport's own website calls itself simply Ponta Delgada, and has no mention of João Paulo.

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Template:Regions of Portugal: statistical (NUTS3) subregions and intercommunal entities are confused; they are not the same in all regions, and should be sublisted separately in each region: intermunicipal entities are sometimes larger and split by subregions (e.g. the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon has two subregions), some intercommunal entities are containing only parts of subregions. All subregions should be listed explicitly and not assume they are only intermunicipal entities (which accessorily are not statistic subdivisions but real administrative entities, so they should be listed below, probably using a smaller font: we can safely eliminate the subgrouping by type of intermunicipal entity from this box).

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Section sizes

Section size for Age of Discovery (49 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	6,819	6,819
Concept	8,787	8,787
Overview	7,004	7,004
Background	89	20,226
Rise of European trade	2,762	2,762
Technology: Ship design and the compass	1,621	1,621
Early geographical knowledge and maps	2,906	2,906
Medieval European travel (1241–1438)	5,565	5,565
Religion	2,332	2,332
Chinese missions (1405–1433)	4,951	4,951
Atlantic Ocean (1419–1507)	5,275	38,069
Portuguese exploration	7,969	11,523
Portuguese exploration after Prince Henry	3,554	3,554
Spanish exploration: Columbus's landfall in the Americas	3,225	3,225
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)	2,962	2,962
The Americas: The New World	506	15,084
North America	1,149	1,149
The "True Indies" and Brazil	13,429	13,429
Indian Ocean (1497–1513)	32	9,346
Vasco da Gama's route to India	4,867	4,867
The "Spice Islands" and China	4,447	4,447
Pacific Ocean (1513–1529)	164	11,372
Balboa's expedition to the Pacific Ocean	1,571	1,571
Subsequent developments to the east	282	282
First circumnavigation	4,911	4,911
Westward and eastward exploration meet	4,444	4,444
Inland Spanish expeditions (1519–1532)	3,811	14,085
Cortés' Mexico and the Aztec Empire	4,616	4,616
Pizarro's Peru and the Inca Empire	5,658	5,658
Major new trade routes (1542–1565)	2,544	2,544
Northern European involvement (1595–17th century)	4,666	25,581
Exploring North America	9,691	9,691
Search for a northern route	3,406	7,328
Barentsz' Arctic exploration	3,922	3,922
Dutch Australia and New Zealand	3,896	3,896
Russian exploration of Siberia (1581–1660)	1,003	10,428
Conquest of the Khanate of Sibir	1,485	1,485
Siberian river routes	3,319	3,319
Russians reach the Pacific	4,621	4,621
Global impact	13,175	19,458
Economic impact in Europe	6,283	6,283
See also	601	601
Footnotes	47	47
References	42	37,122
Bibliography	44	37,080
Primary sources	2,782	2,782
Secondary works	26,051	26,051
Web sources	8,203	8,203
External links	1,644	1,644
Total	213,133	213,133