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Spanish region bounded by Portugal in the west, as well as Gibraltar and Morocco in the south. Spain borders France and Andorra in the northeast through the Pyrenees Mountains. Sea boundary is the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Bay of Biscay to the north and the Mediterranean Sea in the east, where Spain has a territory of the Balearic Islands. In the south, there is the Strait of Gibraltar. Cities in Spain with the largest population is Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Sevilla and Málaga.

Spain map

Spanish landscape is dominated by high plateaus and mountains, such as the Pyrenees and Sierra Nevada. From these places, flows the various rivers.

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España) is a country in southwestern Europe, with Portugal, located in the Iberian Peninsula. Spanish land border with Europe is the Pyrenees Mountains in France and Andorra. Its area also consists of the city of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, and various islands in the Mediterranean.

Spanish territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, and two autonomous cities in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, that border Morocco, plus Alboran, Islands Chafarinas, Alhucemas, Vélez de la Gomera and other small islands including Perejil. In addition, the city of Llívia is a Spanish exclave situated inside French territory. With an area of ​​505 992 square kilometers (195,365 square miles), Spanish is the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe.

Modern humans first arrived on the Iberian Peninsula about 35,000 years ago. It was under Roman rule around 200 BC, after the region was named Hispania. In the Middle Ages it was conquered by Germanic tribes and then by the Moors to the south. Spain emerged as a unified country in the 15th century, following the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs and the completion of the conquest for centuries, or the Reconquista, the peninsula from the Moors in 1492. Spain became a global empire influential in the early modern period, became one of the first countries to colonize the World new and left a legacy of more than 500 million Spanish speakers today, making it the second most spoken first language in the world.

Spain is a democracy organized in the form of a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy. He is a developed country with the thirteenth largest economy in the world by nominal GDP. Spain also has a high standard of living with the tenth highest quality of life index rating in the world in 2005. It is a member of the United Nations, NATO, OECD, and WTO.