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Portuguese Americans  

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  • Portuguese Americans are immigrants and their descendants from Portugal, a country with an estimated population of 10.7 million people in 2007. Portugal is officially called the Portugal Republic and includes the Azores and Madeira Islands as well as Macao, a small territory on the coast of China. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Portuguese Americans]

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