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    Spain is a sovereign state located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. It has coastlines on both the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, as well as island territories like the Balearic and Canary Islands. Spain has a population of over 46 million and was once a major global colonial empire, leaving it with over 500 million Spanish speakers today. It is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy and became a democracy in the 1970s after emerging as a unified country in the 15th century following the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors.

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    Spain is a sovereign state located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. It has coastlines on both the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, as well as island territories like the Balearic and Canary Islands. Spain has a population of over 46 million and was once a major global colonial empire, leaving it with over 500 million Spanish speakers today. It is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy and became a democracy in the 1970s after emerging as a unified country in the 15th century following the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors.

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    Spain is a sovereign state located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. It has coastlines on both the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, as well as island territories like the Balearic and Canary Islands. Spain has a population of over 46 million and was once a major global colonial empire, leaving it with over 500 million Spanish speakers today. It is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy and became a democracy in the 1970s after emerging as a unified country in the 15th century following the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors.

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    Spain

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    For other uses, see Spain (disambiguation).


    "Espaa" redirects here. For other uses, see Espaa (disambiguation).
    Coordinates: 40N 4W

    Kingdom of Spain
    Reino de Espaa[a][b]

    Flag

    Coat of arms

    Motto: "Plus Ultra" (Latin)


    "Further Beyond"

    Anthem: "Marcha Real" (Spanish)[2]


    "Royal March"

    Location of Spain (dark green)


    in Europe (green & dark grey)
    in the European Union (green)

    Capital

    Madrid

    and largest city

    4026N 342W

    Official language

    Spanish[c]

    and national
    language
    Recognised

    Aragonese

    regional

    Astur-Leonese

    languages[c]

    Basque
    Catalan
    Galician
    Occitan

    Ethnic groups (201


    89.9% Spanish

    5)

    10.1% others
    Spanish

    Demonym

    Spaniard
    Government

    Unitary parliamentaryconstitutional monarc


    hy

    Monarch

    Felipe VI

    Prime Minister

    Mariano Rajoy

    Legislature

    Cortes Generales

    Upper house

    Senate

    Lower house

    Congress of Deputies

    Formation
    Dynastic

    20 January 1479

    De facto

    23 January 1516

    De jure

    9 June 1715

    First constitution

    19 March 1812

    Current

    29 December 1978

    democracy
    EEC accession[d]

    1 January 1986

    Area
    Total

    505,990[4] km2 (51st)


    195,364 sq mi

    Water (%)

    1.04

    Population
    2015 census

    46,423,064[e] (30th)

    Density

    92/km2 (112th)
    240/sq mi

    GDP (PPP)

    2015 estimate

    Total

    $1.674 trillion[6] (16th)

    Per capita

    $36,143[6] (33rd)

    GDP (nominal)

    2016 estimate

    Total

    $1.242 trillion[6] (12th)

    Per capita

    $26,823[6] (29th)

    Gini (2013)

    33.7[7]
    medium

    HDI (2014)

    0.876[8]
    very high 26th

    Currency

    Euro[f] () (EUR)

    Time zone

    CET (UTC+1)
    WET (UTC)

    Summer (DST)

    CEST (UTC+2)
    WEST (UTC+1)
    Note: Spain observes CET/CEST, except
    theCanary Islands which observe WET/WEST

    Date format

    dd/mm/yyyy (CE)

    Drives on the

    right

    Calling code

    +34

    ISO 3166 code

    ES

    Internet TLD

    .es[g]

    Spain ( /spen/; Spanish: Espaa [espaa] ( listen)), officially theKingdom of


    Spain (Spanish: Reino de Espaa),[a][b] is a sovereign statelargely located on the Iberian
    Peninsula in southwestern Europe, witharchipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea,
    and several small territories on and near the North African coast. Its Mainland is bordered to the
    south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the
    north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest
    by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Along with France and Morocco, it is one of only three countries
    to have both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines. Extending to 1,214 km (754 mi), the Portugal
    Spain border is the longest uninterrupted borderwithin the European Union.
    i

    Spanish territory includes two archipelagos: the Balearic Islands, in the Mediterranean Sea, and
    the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast. It also includes two
    major exclaves, Ceuta and Melilla, in continental North Africa; and the islands and peones (rocks)
    of Alborn,Alhucemas, Chafarinas and Vlez de la Gomera. With an area of
    505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi), Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe, the second largest
    country in Western Europe and the European Union, and the fourth largest country in the European
    continent. By population, Spain is the sixth largest in Europe and the fifth in the European Union.
    Modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 35,000 years ago. Iberian cultures
    along with ancient Phoenician, Greek and Carthaginiansettlements developed on the peninsula until
    it came under Roman rule around 200 BCE, after which the region was named Hispania. In the
    Middle Ages, the area was conquered by Germanic tribes and later by the Moors. Spain emerged as
    a unified country in the 15th century, following the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs and the
    completion of the centuries-long reconquest, or Reconquista, of the peninsula from the Moors in
    1492. In the early modern period, Spain became one of history's first global colonial empires, leaving
    a vast cultural and linguistic legacy that includes over 500 million Spanish speakers, making Spanish
    the world's second most spoken first language, after Chinese and before English.
    Spain is a democracy organised in the form of a parli

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