Explore Spain in Europe - Spain Tourism Info

Description and Basic Information

Spain with its capital Madrid is located in Europe (Southwestern Europe, bordering the Mediterranean Sea). It covers some 504,783 square kilometres (slightly more than twice the size of Oregon) with 40,491,000 citizens. Spanish, Catalan, Gallegan and Basque are languages spoken by the majority in Spain (consider regional differences). Andorra, Portugal, Gibraltar, France and Morocco are bordering countries.

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About Spain

The terrain offers large, flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills having Pyrenees Mountains in north. The average density of population is about 80 per km². The climate in can be described as temperate with clear, hot summers in interior, more moderate and cloudy along coast, cloudy, cold winters in interior, partly cloudy and cool along coast. Possible natural disasters include periodic droughts, occasional flooding.

To reach someone in Spain dial +34 prior to a number. There are 20,057,000 installed telephones. And there are 50,991,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900, 1800 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".es". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 230V - 50Hz.

The country consists of 19 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of Spain

European Tourism Information

Official Tourism Office

Website: Spain Tourism

Unesco World Heritage Properties

Spain has 38 more world heritage locations. To see all of them, visit the Spain Unesco Heritage location overview.

Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada

Rising above the modern lower town, the Alhambra and the Albaycín, situated on two adjacent hills, form the medieval part of Granada. To the east of the Alhambra fortress and residence are...

Aranjuez Cultural Landscape

The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the...

Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida

The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the Spanish Campaign and was the capital of Lusitania. The well-preserved...

Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco

Tárraco (modern-day Tarragona) was a major administrative and mercantile city in Roman Spain and the centre of the Imperial cult for all the Iberian provinces. It was endowed with many fine...

Archaeological Site of Atapuerca

The caves of the Sierra de Atapuerca contain a rich fossil record of the earliest human beings in Europe, from nearly one million years ago and extending up to the Common Era. They represent an...

Demographic Information

Age Distribution in Spain

Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Spain is growing at an rate of 0.05% (or by 18,247 citizens). Each year 40,143 people enter this country (or 1.00 per thousand citizens) - making it an immigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of -0.05%. Or an total decrease of 21,896 citizens.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.