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Portugal has 2 archipelagos, the archipelago of Madeira and of Azores. Madeira is further south and is next to the African Continent, Azores is further west and its the westernmost point of Europe (further west than Iceland which is sometimes mistakenly pointed as the westernmost point of Europe).

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