Community of Portuguese Language Countries
The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa) or CPLP its a multilateral forum for mutual friendship between the Portuguese language nations across the world.
The Portuguese-speaking countries are home to more than 223 million people located across the globe but having similar cultures. The CPLP nations have a combined area of 10,708,674 square kilometers, much larger than the USA or Canada.
These are the Eight Member States:
- Angola (Africa)
- Brazil (South America)
- Cape Verde (Africa)
- East Timor (Asia)
- Guinea-Bissau (Africa)
- Mozambique (Africa)
- Portugal (Europe)
- Saint Thomas and Prince or Sao Tome and Principe (Africa)
Some Galicians want the autonomous region of Galicia (Galiza) in Spain to take part in this Union, because their language (Galego) is closely related to Portuguese (in fact many consider one to be a dialect of the other). The two languages (or dialects) have a common origin in Galicia and northen Portugal. A similar case happened with East Timor. But before independence East Timor had the status of Observer, although the exiled government of East Timor tried to gain full member status before independence.
