Talk:Greater Lisbon
Is there another name for this area? You'd think I'd know, having lived there, but I can't recall... (WT-en) Majnoona 12:12, 8 July 2006 (EDT)
- It may depend on when you lived there. This is what the Portuguese Tourism Board calls the region (though of course they tend to spell it "Lisboa Região"). According to Wikipedia, the Portuguese NUTS (which stands for Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics; I kid you not) has been revised recently to recognize these regions (deprecating the district system which the CIA Factbook still reports), with the possible goal of giving them more political autonomy. - (WT-en) Todd VerBeek 12:32, 8 July 2006 (EDT)
- Shouldn't Ericeira, Mafra and Peniche go to Central Portugal given our quite narrow definition of the Lisbon Region following NUTS 2? PrinceGloria (talk) 07:26, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
- PS. The [www.visitportugal.com Portuguese Tourist Board], which uses the same division into NUTS as we do, has pretty much answered my question with their webpage - Ericeira and Mafra should stay in the Lisbon Region, Peniche should go to Centro.
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I would like to create a writeup/guide about this topic, because I see that many people get really confused about this and it's a niche to be filled, however the transport area this is applicable to is bigger than Greater Lisbon, instead applying to its 18 member municipalities. In fact, in Portugal for transport a division is not made by either NUTS areas or districts, but by CIMs: collaboration on municipality level that arrange public transport in the region together and are assigned money for this from the top level per these regions. How best to approach this correctly? LaPingvino (talk) 14:45, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Correction, the CIMs mostly match the NUTS-3 regions, except for the AML and the AMP, the Lisbon and Porto Metropolitan Areas, where Greater Lisbon is the result of splitting the AML up in two CIMs for funding purposes. That said, it doesn't really make sense transport and tourism wise to follow this split. See also the map on this LPP article: https://lisboaparapessoas.pt/2022/11/11/grande-lisboa-peninsula-de-setubal-aml-cim-nuts/ (map by LPP themselves, they might be willing to release it properly for Wikimedia usage). --LaPingvino (talk) 14:53, 3 April 2023 (UTC)