Provinces of Spain
- Provinces of Spain
In addition to its autonomous communities,
Spain is divided into fiftyprovince s.Formerly of greater importance, since the arrival of the autonomous community system the provinces have had fewer powers. They are still used as electoral districts, in postal addresses, phone codes, and as geographical referents. (A small town would be identified as being in
Valladolid province rather than as being inCastile and Leon , for example.)Most of the provinces are named after their principal town with the exception of Araba/Álava, Asturias, Bizkaia/Vizcaya, Cantabria, Gipuzkoa/Gipúzcoa, Illes Balears/Islas Baleares, La Rioja and Nafarroa/Navarra. There are only two cities that are capitals of autonomous communities without being capitals of provinces: Mérida in
Extremadura andSantiago de Compostela in Galicia.Seven autonomous communities are composed of only one province:
Asturias ,Balearic Islands ,Cantabria , La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, andNavarre .
The table below lists the provinces of Spain. For each, the capital city is given, along with the autonomous community it is a part of, and a link to a list of
municipalities in the province. Where local place names differ from the Spanish, both are given (even if one of the names is not official), with the Spanish form first.ee also
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Autonomous communities of Spain
*Comarcas of Spain
*List of municipalities of Spain
*List of Spanish provinces by coastline External links
* [http://www.maps.data-spain.com/spain/political_provinces.html Maps of the provinces of Spain] Maps of Spain's Provinces
* [http://www.ine.es/daco/daco42/codmun/codmun07/07codmunmapa.htm List of municipalities of Spain listed by province] from the Spanish [http://www.ine.es INE] (National Statistics Institute) es
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