section_path: Geography/Provinces of Portugal
section_name: Provinces of Portugal
paragraph_text: Provinces of Portugal
  
  The term " provinces " (Portuguese: províncias) has been used throughout history to identify regions of continental Portugal. Current legal subdivisions of Portugal do not coincide with the provinces, but several provinces, in their 19th- and 20th-century versions, still correspond to culturally relevant, strongly self-identifying categories. They include:
  
  The islands of Azores and Madeira were never called "provinces".