Spain’s territorial organisation

 How is Spain organised?

Spain is organised into seventeen autonomous communities and two autonomous cities. Each community has one or more provinces. The provinces are divided into municipalities. There are fifty provinces in Spain. A province is a group of municipalities that are geographically or historically related. A province is governed by a provincial council. It promotes the interests of the province and coordinates all its municipalities and services.

There are over 8 000 municipalities in Spain. They cover one or more cities and the surrounding areas. They are divided into municipal districts. A municipality is governed by the city council. The people living in the municipality are the municipal population.

What are autonomous communities?

Autonomous communities are areas that are geographically, historically and linguistically related. Some have just one province while others have several. Each autonomous community has three government institutions:

• A government council, made up of a president and councillors.

• An autonomous parliament.

• A High Court of Justice.

GALICIA: La Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra.

Capital: Santiago de Compostela

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

PRINCIPALTY OF ASTURIAS: Oviedo

Oviedo

CANTABRIA: Santander

Santander

BASQUE COUNTRY: Bizkaia- Bilbao, Guipúzcoa- San Sebastián, Álava - Vitoria (Capital).

VITORIA

NAVARRA: Pamplona

Pamplona

ARAGÓN: Huesca, Zaragoza (Capital) and Teruel.

Zaragoza

CATALONIA: Barcelona (Capital), Tarragona, Lleida and Girona.

Barcelona

LA RIOJA: Logroño

Logroño

CASTILLA Y LEÓN: León, Zamora, Salamanca, Palencia, Valladolid (Capital), Burgos, Soria, Segovia and Ávila.

Valladolid

Salamanca

Ávila

Segovia

COMMUNITY OF MADRID: Madrid

CASTILLA LA-MANCHA: Toledo (Capital), Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara and Albacete.

VALENCIAN COMMUNITY: Castellón, Valencia (Capital) and Alicante.

BALEARIC ISLANDS: Palma de Mallorca.

Palma de Mallorca

REGION OF MURCIA

EXTREMADURA: Cáceres, Badajoz, Mérida (Capital)

CEUTA AND MELILLA

CANARY ISLANDS: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

ANDALUCÍA: Jaén, Córdoba, Seville (capital), Huelva, Cádiz, Málaga, Granada and Almería.

ANDALUCÍA

Jaén

Córdoba

Seville

Huelva

Cádiz

Málaga

Granada

Almería

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