Living in Corvo The Portuguese Island That Isn't Technically in Europe 4K

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There is a village that belongs to Portugal, uses the euro, and speaks Portuguese — and yet, geologically speaking, is not actually part of Europe at all. Fewer than four hundred and thirty people live there. And that's not even the strangest thing about it.
In the far northwestern corner of the Azores, an island barely six and a half square miles wide sits geologically on the North American tectonic plate, making it, along with its neighbor Flores, the only Portuguese territory located in North America rather than Europe. Corvo is the smallest, least populated municipality in all of Portugal — a single village of roughly four hundred people who only received electricity and a telephone line in 1973, and whose ancestors lived for centuries under a land arrangement that looked almost exactly like European feudalism. This is the story of the strangest corner of Portugal that most Portuguese people have never actually seen.