General info

Entity:
Spain
Capital:
Madrid
Population (2008-07-01):
40,491,051 (CIA)
Area:
504,782 sq.km.
Country code:
es
Region:
Southern Europe

Spain

Administrative units

autonomous communities capital area (sq.km.) population
2001-11-01
census
population
2006-01-01
estimate
source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Spain.
note: País Vasco = Basque Country; Comunidad Valenciana aka País Valencià.
note: "Comunidad Valenciana" is the Spanish form, in Catalan it is "Comunitat Valenciana".
note: CA = Comunidad Autónoma
note: Canarias = Canary Islands; Cataluna = Catalonia.
CA de Andalucía Sevilla 87,597.00 7,357,558 7,975,672
CA de Aragón Zaragoza 47,720.00 1,204,215 1,276,402
CA de Canarias Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7,447.00 1,694,477 1,995,833
CA de Cantabria Santander 5,321.00 535,131 568,091
CA de Castilla y León Valladolid 94,223.00 2,456,474 2,523,020
CA de Castilla-La Mancha Toledo 79,463.00 1,760,516 1,932,261
CA de Cataluña Barcelona 32,114.00 6,343,110 7,134,697
CA de Extremadura Mérida 41,634.00 1,058,503 1,086,373
CA de Galicia Santiago de Compostela 29,574.00 2,695,880 2,767,524
CA de las Illes Balears Palma de Mallorca 4,992.00 841,669 1,001,062
CA de La Rioja Logroño 5,045.00 276,702 306,377
Comunidad de Madrid Madrid 8,028.00 5,423,384 6,008,183
Comunidad Foral de Navarra Pamplona 10,391.00 555,829 601,874
CA de País Vasco (Euskadi) Vitoria-Gasteiz 7,234.00 2,082,587 2,133,684
CA del Principado de Asturias Oviedo 10,604.00 1,062,998 1,076,896
CA de la Región de Murcia Murcia 11,313.00 1,197,646 1,370,306
Comunidad Valenciana Valencia 23,255.00 4,162,776 4,806,908
Autonomous Cities   32.00 137,916 142,732
total   505,988.00 40,847,371 44,707,895

Main cities

name population
2001-11-01
census
population
2006-01-01
estimate
Madrid 2,938,723 3,128,600
Barcelona 1,503,884 1,605,602
Valencia 738,441 805,304
Sevilla 684,633 704,414
Zaragoza 614,905 649,181
Málaga 524,414 560,631
Murcia 370,745 416,996
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 354,863 377,056
Palma de Mallorca 333,801 375,048
Bilbao 349,972 354,145
Córdoba 308,072 322,867
Alicante/Alacant 284,580 322,431
Valladolid 316,580 319,943
Vigo 280,186 293,255
Gijón 266,419 274,472
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat 239,019 248,150
A Coruña 236,379 243,320
Granada 240,661 237,929
Vitoria-Gasteiz 216,852 227,568
Santa Cruz de Tenerife 188,477 223,148
Badalona 205,836 221,520
Elche/Elx 194,767 219,032
Oviedo 201,154 214,883
Cartagena 184,686 208,609
Móstoles 196,524 206,301
Alcalá de Henares 176,434 201,380
Sabadell 183,788 200,545
Terrassa 173,775 199,817
Jerez de la Frontera 183,273 199,544
Pamplona/Iruña 183,964 195,769
Fuenlabrada 182,705 193,715
Almería 166,328 185,309
Donostia-San Sebastián 178,377 183,308
Santander 180,717 182,926
Leganés 173,584 182,471
Burgos 166,187 173,676
Castellón de la Plana/Castelló de la Plana 147,667 172,110
Alcorcón 153,100 164,633
Albacete 148,934 161,508
Salamanca 156,368 159,754
Getafe 151,479 156,320
Logroño 133,058 147,036
Huelva 142,284 145,763
Badajoz 133,519 143,748
San Cristóbal de La Laguna 128,822 142,161
León 130,916 136,985
Tarragona 113,129 131,158
Cádiz 133,363 130,561
Lleida 112,199 125,677
Marbella 100,036 125,519
Santa Coloma de Gramenet 112,992 119,056
Mataró 106,358 118,748
Jaén 112,590 116,769
Dos Hermanas 101,988 114,672
Algeciras 101,468 112,937
Torrejón de Ardoz 97,887 112,114
Ourense 107,510 108,137
Alcobendas 92,090 104,118
Reus 89,006 101,767
Telde 87,949 97,525
Barakaldo 94,478 95,640
Parla 79,213 95,087
San Fernando 88,073 93,544
Santiago de Compostela 90,188 93,458
Lugo 88,414 93,450
Torrevieja .. 92,034
Cáceres 82,716 90,218
Lorca 77,477 89,936
Girona .. 89,890
Cornellà de Llobregat 79,979 84,289
Talavera la Reina 75,369 83,793
Avilés 83,185 83,538
Coslada 77,884 83,233
El Puerto de Santa María 76,236 83,101
Getxo 82,285 82,327
Palencia 79,797 82,263
Sant Boi de Llobregat 78,738 81,368
Pontevedra .. 80,096
Pozuelo de Alarcón .. 79,581
Orihuela .. 77,979
Toledo .. 77,601
Ferrol 77,950 76,399
El Ejido .. 75,969
Ceuta .. 75,861
Las Rozas de Madrid .. 75,719
Guadalajara .. 75,493
source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Spain.
note: population figures refer to "municipios", which can contain some rural area.