| Official name | Kingdom of Spain |
| Name in local language | Reino de España (es) |
| Continent | Europe |
| Subcontinent | European Union |
| Population (ranking: 30e) | 48,592,909 inhabitants (2024) |
| Population growth | 1.05 % / year |
| Area | 505,992 km² |
| Density | 96.03 inhabitants / km² |
| GDP (ranking: 13e) | 1,417.800 billions $USD (2022) |
| GDP/capita (ranking) | 29,674 $USD (2022) |
| GDP growth | 5.80 % / year (2022) |
| Life expectancy (ranking) | 83.40 years (2018) |
| Birth rate | 9.02 ‰ (2015) |
| Fertility rate | 1.33 children / woman (2015) |
| Death rate (ranking) | 9.06 ‰ (2015) |
| Infant mortality rate (ranking) | 2.67 ‰ (2015) |
| Literacy rate | 99.76 % (2015) |
| Official languages | Spanish |
| Currency | Euro (€ EUR) |
| HDI (ranking: 34e) | 0.911 / 1 (2022) |
| EPI (ranking) | 78.39 (2018) |
| Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
| Head of State | King Felipe VI |
| National Day | 12 October (discovery of Americas by Europeans) |
| ISO Codes | ES, ESP |
| Demonym | Spanish |
| Tourists (ranking) | 85,100,000 people (2023) |
Spain is a country of Southern and Western Europe. It occupies most of the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with Portugal. It also shares a mountainous border (Pyrenees) in the north with France, and Andorra, a small landlocked country in between. On the Mediterranean coast, it has two landlocked territories in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west. To the south, it is Africa that faces Gibraltar, the British territory claimed by Spain, and the southern coast of Andalusia, by the Strait of Gibraltar, separating Europe from Africa from only 14 kilometers. Spain also has the Balearic archipelago, east of its Mediterranean coasts, and the Canary Islands archipelago off the coast of Morocco in the Atlantic.
Mallorca, Llubí, Spain. Source: Wildlife Archives
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Urban areas (2017)
| Urban areas | Population |
|---|---|
| Madrid | 6,980,646 inhabitants |
| Barcelona | 5,355,127 inhabitants |
| Valencia | 1,723,935 inhabitants |
| Seville | 1,543,858 inhabitants |
| Bilbao | 1,070,188 inhabitants |
| Alicante - Elche | 870,972 inhabitants |
| Málaga | 858,731 inhabitants |
| Asturias (Oviedo–Gijón–Avilés) | 801,226 inhabitants |
| Zaragoza | 756,296 inhabitants |
| Palma | 678,611 inhabitants |
| Murcia | 624,658 inhabitants |
| Granada | 561,818 inhabitants |
| Vigo | 541,686 inhabitants |
| Valladolid | 422,672 inhabitants |
| A Coruña | 419,110 inhabitants |
| Pamplona | 380,983 inhabitants |
| Santander | 380,200 inhabitants |
| Córdoba | 358,887 inhabitants |
| San Sebastián | 338,267 inhabitants |
| Tarragona | 335,153 inhabitants |
| Marbella | 310,111 inhabitants |
| Algeciras - Gibraltar | 299,593 inhabitants |
| Vitoria-Gasteiz | 273,689 inhabitants |
| Cádiz | 255,163 inhabitants |
| Cartagena | 233,941 inhabitants |
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Administrative divisions
| Autonomous communities | Population | Area |
|---|---|---|
| Andalusia | 8,409,657 inhabitants | 87,268 km² |
| Aragon | 1,317,076 inhabitants | 47,719 km² |
| Asturias | 1,034,449 inhabitants | 10,604 km² |
| Balearic Islands | 1,150,839 inhabitants | 4,992 km² |
| Basque Country | 2,167,707 inhabitants | 7,234 km² |
| Canary Islands | 2,154,905 inhabitants | 7,447 km² |
| Cantabria | 581,477 inhabitants | 5,321 km² |
| Castile and León | 2,435,797 inhabitants | 94,223 km² |
| Castilla-La Mancha | 2,040,379 inhabitants | 79,463 km² |
| Catalonia | 7,441,176 inhabitants | 32,114 km² |
| Ceuta (Autonomous city) | 85,107 inhabitants | 19 km² |
| Extremadura | 1,077,715 inhabitants | 41,634 km² |
| Galicia | 2,710,607 inhabitants | 29,574 km² |
| La Rioja | 312,647 inhabitants | 5,045 km² |
| Madrid | 6,475,872 inhabitants | 8,028 km² |
| Melilla (Autonomous city) | 85,116 inhabitants | 13 km² |
| Murcia | 1,472,949 inhabitants | 11,313 km² |
| Navarre | 640,502 inhabitants | 10,391 km² |
| Valencia | 4,934,993 inhabitants | 23,255 km² |