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Portugal's main police organizations are the Guarda Nacional Republicana – GNR (National Republican Guard), a gendarmerie; the Polícia de Segurança Pública – PSP (Public Security Police), a civilian police force who work in urban areas; and the Polícia Judiciária – PJ (Judicial Police), a highly specialized criminal investigation police that is overseen by the Public Ministry.
Bulgaria's first geostationary communications satellite, BulgariaSat-1, was launched by SpaceX in 2017.
Infrastructure
Telephone services are widely available and a central digital trunk line connects most regions. Vivacom (BTC) serves over 90% of fixed lines and is one of three operators providing mobile services, along with A1 and Telenor. Internet penetration was 69.2% of the population aged 16 to 74 and 78.9% of households in 2020.
Bulgaria's strategic geographic location and well-developed energy sector make it a key European energy center despite the lack of significant fossil fuel deposits. The thermoelectric plants generate 48.9% of electricity, followed by nuclear power from the Kozloduy reactors (34.8%) and from renewable sources (16.3%). Equipment has been purchased for a second nuclear power plant in Belene, but the fate of the project remains uncertain. The installed capacity amounts to 12,668 MW, allowing Bulgaria to overcome domestic demand and export energy.
The national road network has a total length of 19,512 kilometers (12,124 mi), of which 19,235 kilometers (11,952 mi) are asphalted. Railways are one of the main modes of freight transport, although motorways carry a progressively larger share of freight. Bulgaria has 6,238 kilometers (3,876 miles) of railroad tracks, with rail connections available to Romania, Turkey, Greece and Serbia, and express trains serving direct routes to Kiev, Minsk, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Sofia and Plovdiv are the country's air transport hubs, while Varna and Burgas are the main commercial sea ports.
Languages
Portuguese is the official language of Portugal. It is a Romance language that is derived from Galician-Portuguese, which was spoken in what is now Galicia and Northern Portugal. There are still strong similarities between the Galician and Portuguese cultures. Galicia is a consultative observer of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.
The Portuguese language is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago – particularly the Celts,[21] Conii,[263] Lusitanians[20] and Turduli.[264] In the 15th and 16th centuries, the language spread worldwide as Portugal established a colonial and commercial empire between 1415 and 1999.[265] Portuguese is spoken as a native language in five different continents, with Brazil accounting for the largest number of native Portuguese speakers of any country. In 2013 the Portuguese language is the official language spoken in Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, and East Timor. These countries, plus Macau Special Administrative Region (People's Republic of China) where Portuguese is co-official with Cantonese, make up the Lusosphere, a term derived from the ancient Roman province of "Lusitania", which currently matches the Portuguese territory south of the Douro river.[266]
Mirandese is also recognized as a co-official regional language in some municipalities of North-Eastern Portugal. It is part of the Astur-Leonese group of languages.[267] An estimate of between 6,000 and 7,000 Mirandese speakers has been documented for Portugal.[268] Furthermore, a particular dialect known as Barranquenho, spoken in Barrancos, is also officially recognized and protected in Portugal since 2021.[269] Minderico, a sociolect of the Portuguese language, is spoken by around 500 people in the town of Minde.[270]
According to the International English Proficiency Index, Portugal has a high proficiency level in English, higher than those of other Romance-speaking European countries like Italy, France or Spain.
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