Has the second most UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and its Canary Islands sit closer to Africa than to Europe.
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Spain
Kingdom of Spain ยท Espaรฑa
Europe
ยท Southern Europe
0Population
505.99Kkmยฒ of land
$29.6KGDP / person
MadridCapital
- ISO codes
- ES ยท ESP
- Density
- 93 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +34
- Internet domain
- .es
- Time zones
- 3
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 40.0910ยฐ N, 3.4650ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Spanish
- UN region
- Southern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $1.39T
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Spain stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
30th
of 242 ยท 0.61% of world population
Land area
53rd
of 242 ยท 0.34% of world land
GDP per person
55th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
109th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Spain
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 47,076,781 people, the 30th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.61 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 505,992 kmยฒ, making it the 53rd largest country here - about 5.5 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 93 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Madrid, at 40.40ยฐ N, 3.69ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 5,567,000.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Andorra, France, Portugal and Morocco.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 3 time zones, from Africa/Ceuta to Europe/Madrid.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Ceuta
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UTC+02:00
Atlantic/Canary
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UTC+01:00
Europe/Madrid
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Madrid
Comunidad de Madrid
40.4020ยฐ N, 3.6853ยฐ W
5.57M
2
Barcelona
Cataluรฑa
41.3852ยฐ N, 2.1814ยฐ E
4.92M
3
Seville
Andalucรญa
37.4050ยฐ N, 5.9800ยฐ W
1.21M
4
Bilbao
Paรญs Vasco
43.2500ยฐ N, 2.9300ยฐ W
875.55K
5
Valencia
Comunidad Valenciana
39.4870ยฐ N, 0.4020ยฐ W
808K
6
Vigo
Galicia
42.2200ยฐ N, 8.7300ยฐ W
378.95K
7
Las Palmas
28.1000ยฐ N, 15.4300ยฐ W
378.5K
8
Cรณrdoba
Andalucรญa
37.8800ยฐ N, 4.7700ยฐ W
321.38K
๐งญ Worth the trip
Alhambra
Ancient
A Nasrid palace-fortress where water, light and geometry were engineered into one continuous piece of architecture.
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Spain.