Portugal is a nation with its own government.
Portugal . República Pertuesa is a sovereign state located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe . The republic also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira , both autonomous regions with their own regional governments . Democracy was restored after the Portuguese Colonial War and the Carnation Revolution in 1974 . It is the 5th most peaceful country in the world , maintaining a unitary semi-presidential republican form of government .