More about Portugal

As I told before Portugal is the most western country of Europe, as you can see on the map its not a big country around 550 Km from the coast to the border with Spain(west to east), and 850 Km from the coast in the south with the other border with Spain up North(south to north).

I am including some samples of the currency what it looks like and its value against US dollar.

This is the world map to give you an idea of where exactly Portugal is in the world...

Now this is a more detailed map of Portugal...

Portugal uses a currency which is called Escudos...for you to have some idea of what its worth here is an update on the currency values...

Current Exchange Rates as of Jul 23, 1998

the exchange rates are:

183.15 Portuguese Escudo per 1 American Dollar

and

0.0054 American Dollars per 1 Portuguese Escudo.

Now about our currency, we have won several prizes for having the best designed currency in our coins mainly...

This is 2 of our notes, the first one with 5000 escudos value and the second one with 1000 escudos value...

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This page was last updated on 07/26/98.