Kingdom of Spain
Reino de España (Spanish)
|
|
---|---|
Location of Spain (dark green)
– in Europe (green & dark grey) |
|
Capital and largest city |
Madrid 40°26′N 3°42′W / 40.433°N 3.700°W |
Official language and national language |
Spanish |
Co-official languages in bilingual autonomus communities |
Basque, Catalan, Galician |
Ethnic groups (2015) |
|
Religion |
|
Demonym | |
Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch
|
Felipe VI |
Mariano Rajoy | |
Legislature | Cortes Generales |
Senate | |
Congress of Deputies | |
Formation | |
• Dynastic
|
20 January 1479 |
• De facto
|
23 January 1516 |
• De jure
|
9 June 1715 |
19 March 1812 | |
29 December 1978 | |
1 January 1986 | |
Area | |
• Total
|
505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi) (51st) |
• Water (%)
|
1.04 |
Population | |
• 2016 census
|
46,468,102 (30th) |
• Density
|
92/km2 (238.3/sq mi) (112th) |
GDP (PPP) | 2017 estimate |
• Total
|
$1.769 trillion (16th) |
• Per capita
|
$38,239 (33rd) |
GDP (nominal) | 2017 estimate |
• Total
|
$1.232 trillion (12th) |
• Per capita
|
$26,643 (30th) |
Gini (2013) | 33.7 medium |
HDI (2015) |
0.884 very high · 27th |
Currency | Euro (€) (EUR) |
Time zone |
CET (UTC+1) WET (UTC) |
• Summer (DST)
|
CEST (UTC+2) WEST (UTC+1) |
Note: Spain observes CET/CEST, except the Canary 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 |
Coordinates: 40°N 4°W / 40°N 4°W
– in Europe (green & dark grey)
– in the European Union (green)
Spain (Spanish: España [esˈpaɲa]), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a sovereign state located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, with two large archipelagoes, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast, two cities, Ceuta and Melilla, in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast. The country's 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. It is the only European country to have a border with an African country (Morocco) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5% of its population, mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla.