Portugal's internet in numbers

Four questions that sound alike

The figures above answer different questions, and the numbers differ because of it. None of them proves where a particular person or device is.

Registered in Portugal

The registry (RIPE NCC) lists the holder of the block with country code PT. It says who holds the addresses, not where they are used.

Geolocated to Portugal

A geolocation database (here DB-IP Lite) estimates that the block is used in Portugal. Foreign-registered blocks can be geolocated here, and Portuguese-registered blocks can be used abroad.

Announced by a Portuguese network

A network whose AS number is registered in Portugal originates the route in BGP. The traffic can still be handled elsewhere, for example by a cloud or content network.

Physically in Portugal

Where the equipment or the person actually is. No public dataset can establish this for an address; only the network operator knows.

Portuguese networks by announced IPv4 space

AS numbers registered to organisations in Portugal, ranked by the IPv4 address space they originate in our copy of the BGP table. The names are those in the registry; one operator often runs several AS numbers (fixed, mobile, business, the islands).

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Where Portuguese IPv4 addresses are estimated to be used

IPv4 addresses that DB-IP Lite places in Portugal, summed per district and autonomous region. This is a location estimate for address blocks, usually where the provider's equipment is, not where people live.

DB-IP labels Portuguese ranges with the eighteen mainland districts, the Azores and Madeira, in English and not always consistently ("District of Setúbal" next to "Setúbal"); we fold each label into one district without moving any range. The shares of Lisbon and Porto reflect where the large providers' central equipment is.

Where Portuguese networks meet

Networks exchange traffic directly at internet exchange points (IXPs) instead of sending it abroad and back. All the exchanges registered in Portugal are in the Lisbon area.

Source: PeeringDB, checked 30 Oct 2026. Data centres registered there in Portugal are mostly in and around Lisbon, with a growing cluster in Sines, where several submarine cables land.

Who does what

• RIPE NCC

  The regional internet registry for Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. It allocates IPv4 and IPv6 blocks and AS numbers to Portuguese operators and publishes who holds them.

• ANACOM

  The national communications regulator. It licenses operators and publishes market statistics; it does not allocate IP addresses.

• DNS.PT

  The association that manages the .pt top-level domain. The .pt zone is DNSSEC-signed; registration data is published over WHOIS at whois.dns.pt (the IANA RDAP registry lists no RDAP server for .pt).

• FCT | FCCN

  The unit of the Foundation for Science and Technology that runs RCTS, the network of Portuguese universities and research centres (AS1930), and the GigaPIX exchange.