User:LuisGomez111/Spain
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Spain (Spanish: Españaⓘ, IPA: [es'paɲa]) or the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España),[5] is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Spanish mainland is bordered to the south and east almost entirely by the Mediterranean Sea (except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar); to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal. 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. With an area of 504,030 km2, Spain is the second largest country in Western Europe (behind France) and with an average altitude of 650 m, the second highest country in Europe (behind Switzerland).
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Kingdom of Spain Reino de España | |
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Motto: "Plus Ultra" (Latin) "Further Beyond" | |
Anthem: ""Marcha Real" (Spanish) "Royal March" | |
Capital and largest city | Madrid 40°26′N 3°42′W |
Official languages | Spanish |
Recognised regional languages | Aranese, Basque, Catalan/Valencian and Galician |
Ethnic groups | 89% Spanish, 11% minority groups |
Demonym(s) | Spanish, Spaniard |
Government | Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch | King Juan Carlos I |
José L. Rodríguez Zapatero | |
Formation 15th century | |
• Unification | 1469 |
• Dynastic union | 1516 |
1716 | |
1812 | |
Area | |
• Total | 504,030 km2 (194,610 sq mi) (51st) |
• Water (%) | 1.04 |
Population | |
• 2007 estimate | 45,200,737[1] (28th) |
• Density | [convert: invalid number] (106th) |
GDP (PPP) | 2007[2] estimate |
• Total | $1.310 trillion (11th) |
• Per capita | $33,700 (2007) (27th) |
GDP (nominal) | 2007[3] estimate |
• Total | $1.439 trillion (8th) |
• Per capita | $31,471 (2007) (26th) |
Gini (2005) | 32[4] Error: Invalid Gini value |
HDI (2005) | 0.949 very high (13th) |
Currency | Euro (€) ³ (EUR) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET4) |
UTC+2 (CEST) | |
Calling code | 34 |
ISO 3166 code | ES |
Internet TLD | .es, .cat5 |
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Spain is a constitutional monarchy organised as a parliamentary democracy and has been a member of the European Union since 1986. It is a developed country with the eighth largest economy in the world and fifth largest in the EU, based on nominal GDP.[6]