Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa Community of Portuguese Language Countries | |
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 Map of CPLP member states (blue) and associate observers (green) | |
| Headquarters | Penafiel Palace Lisbon, Portugal 38°42.65′N 9°8.05′W / 38.71083°N 9.13417°W |
| Official language | Portuguese |
| Membership |
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| Leaders | |
 Zacarias da Costa | |
• Director-General |  Armindo Brito Fernandes |
• President of the Parliamentary Assembly |  Cipriano Cassamá |
| Establishment | July 17, 1996 |
| Area | |
• Total | 10,743,526 km2 (4,148,099 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 287 million (2021) |
Website cplp.org | |
The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; abbr. : CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Community (Portuguese: Comunidade Lusófona),[1][2] is an international organization and political association of Lusophone nations across five continents, where Portuguese is an official language. The CPLP operates as a privileged, multilateral forum for the mutual cooperation of the governments, economies, non-governmental organizations, and peoples of the Lusofonia.[3] The CPLP consists of 9 member states and 33 associate observers, located in Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and Oceania, totaling 38 countries and 4 organizations.
The CPLP was founded in 1996, in Lisbon, by Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe, nearly two decades after the beginning of the decolonization of the Portuguese Empire. Following the independence of Timor-Leste in 2002 and the application by Equatorial Guinea in 2014, both of those countries became members of the CPLP. Macau (a Special Administrative Region of China), Galicia (an Autonomous Community of Spain), and Uruguay are formally interested in full membership and another 17 countries across the world are formally interested in associate observer status.
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