Hola, Jesse. Both of them are languages derivated from ancient Latin, the language of Old Roman Empire, which mastered the Iberian Penynsule for the early years of this era, you know, but later along the centuries Spanish and Portuguese have gone progressively getting far. Currently, Spanish is the language spoken in Spain and the whole Center and South America, excepting Brazil, where it's Portuguese the offical one. As a curiosity, I would tell you that inside own spanish territory there is a quite important region called Galicia where, in addition to Spanish, a language named 'Galego' is commonly spoken, being it really close to the Portuguese one (in fact, Galicia, specifically a river, is the north border that "separates" Portugal and Spain) Nowadays, for us, spanish, it's not really easy to understand a real portuguese speech, and the same the opposite: despite both languages have got a major range of vocabulary sharing radicals, the phonetics are not so close, so it's easier to be followed when you read tnan when you hear. Anyway, the learning of any romanian language (Portuguese, Galego, Spanish, Catalá, French, Italian...) is for sure a great help in order to get any of the other: similarities are not less than differences...

Spain is a country and Portugal is another one. Both countries are in Europe. You could watch them here: https://maps.google.es/maps?q=mapas&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=es&sa=N&tab=wl In Spain we talk Spanish, whereas in Portugal they talk Portuguese (the same language than Brazilian people, in South America).