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Spain

Official name:

the Kingdom of Spain

Name in native language:

España /

Capital:

Madrid

ISO country code

ES

Nat. statistical agency:

Instituto Nacional de Estadística

Region:

Southern Europe

Census Results

1900-xx-xx : 18,618,086
1910-xx-xx : 19,995,686
1920-xx-xx : 21,389,842
1930-xx-xx : 23,677,794
1940-xx-xx : 25,877,971
1950-12-31 : 27,976,755
1960-12-31 : 30,528,539
1970-12-31 : 34,040,657
1981-03-01 : 37,683,363
1991-03-01 : 38,872,268
2001-11-01 : 40,847,371

the Kingdom of Spain

Administrative units

autonomous communities provinces	capital	area (sq.km.)	population 1991-03-01 census	population 2001-11-01 census	population 2010-01-01 estimate
source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Spain. note: País Vasco = Basque Country; Comunidad Valenciana aka País Valencià. note: "Comunidad Valenciana" is the Spanish form, in Catalan it is "Comunitat Valenciana". note: CA = Comunidad Autónoma note: Canarias = Canary Islands; Cataluna = Catalonia. note: The difference between the summed up area of municipalities and the totl for the province mostly consists of communal lands.
CA de Andalucía	Sevilla	87,585.6	6,940,105	7,357,558	8,370,975
Almería	Almería	8,774.7	455,079	536,731	695,560
Cádiz	Cádiz	7,440.1	1,078,404	1,116,491	1,236,739
Córdoba	Córdoba	13,771.5	754,452	761,657	805,108
Granada	Granada	12,632.8	790,515	821,660	918,072
Huelva	Huelva	10,128.0	443,476	462,579	518,081
Jáen	Jáen	13,496.3	637,633	643,820	670,761
Málaga	Málaga	7,306.0	1,160,843	1,287,017	1,609,557
Sevilla	Sevilla	14,036.2	1,619,703	1,727,603	1,917,097
CA de Aragón	Zaragoza	47,721.5	1,188,817	1,204,215	1,347,095
Huesca	Huesca	15,636.7	207,810	206,502	228,566
Teruel	Teruel	14,810.4	143,680	135,858	145,277
Zaragoza	Zaragoza	17,274.4	837,327	861,855	973,252
CA de Canarias	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	7,447.0	1,493,784	1,694,477	2,118,519
Las Palmas	Las Palmas	4,065.5	767,969	887,676	1,090,605
Santa Cruz de Tenerife	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	3,381.5	725,815	806,801	1,027,914
CA de Cantabria	Santander	5,323.9	527,326	535,131	592,250
CA de Castilla y León	Valladolid	94,351.6	2,545,926	2,456,474	2,559,515
Ávila	Ávila	8,051.7	174,378	163,442	171,896
Burgos	Burgos	14,358.4	352,772	348,934	374,826
León	León	15,581.7	525,896	488,751	499,284
Palencia	Palencia	8,052.4	185,479	174,143	172,510
Salamanca	Salamanca	12,350.9	357,801	345,609	353,619
Segovia	Segovia	6,978.9	147,188	147,694	164,268
Soria	Soria	10,305.1	94,537	90,717	95,258
Valladolid	Valladolid	8,110.9	494,207	498,094	533,640
Zamora	Zamora	10,561.6	213,668	199,090	194,214
CA de Castilla-La Mancha	Toledo	79,408.3	1,658,446	1,760,516	2,098,373
Albacete	Albacete	14,915.0	342,677	364,835	401,682
Ciudad Real	Ciudad Real	19,813.5	475,435	478,957	529,453
Cuenca	Cuenca	17,140.9	205,198	200,346	217,716
Guadalajara	Guadalajara	12,168.9	145,593	174,999	251,563
Toledo	Toledo	15,370.0	489,543	541,379	697,959
CA de Cataluña	Barcelona	32,163.4	6,059,443	6,343,110	7,512,381
Barcelona	Barcelona	7,728.0	4,654,407	4,805,927	5,511,147
Girona	Gerona (Girona)	5,910.6	509,577	565,304	753,046
Lleida	Lleida (Lérida)	12,224.3	353,455	362,206	439,768
Tarragona	Tarragona	6,300.5	542,004	609,673	808,420
CA de Extremadura	Mérida	41,634.7	1,061,852	1,058,503	1,107,220
Badajoz	Badajoz	21,765.7	650,388	654,882	692,137
Cáceres	Cáceres	19,869.0	411,464	403,621	415,083
CA de Galicia	Santiago de Compostela	29,559.6	2,731,669	2,695,880	2,797,653
Coruña, A	A Coruña	7,936.0	1,096,966	1,096,027	1,146,458
Lugo	Lugo	9,856.0	384,365	357,648	353,504
Ourense	Ourense	7,273.2	353,491	338,446	335,219
Pontevedra	Pontevedra	4,494.4	896,847	903,759	962,472
CA de las Illes Balears	Palma de Mallorca	4,991.7	709,138	841,669	1,106,049
CA de La Rioja	Logroño	5,045.1	263,434	276,702	322,415
Comunidad de Madrid	Madrid	8,022.4	4,947,555	5,423,384	6,458,684
Comunidad Foral de Navarra	Pamplona	10,573.6	519,277	555,829	636,924
CA de País Vasco (Euskadi)	Vitoria-Gasteiz	7,237.2	2,104,041	2,082,587	2,178,339
Álava	Vitoria-Gasteiz	3,040.2	272,447	286,387	317,352
Guipúzcoa	Donostia-San Sebastián	1,983.5	676,488	673,563	707,263
Vizcaya	Bilbao	2,213.5	1,155,106	1,122,637	1,153,724
CA del Principado de Asturias	Oviedo	10,603.5	1,093,937	1,062,998	1,084,341
CA de la Región de Murcia	Murcia	11,312.8	1,045,601	1,197,646	1,461,979
Comunidad Valenciana	Valencia	23,253.3	3,856,765	4,162,776	5,111,706
Alicante	Alicante	5,817.5	1,292,563	1,461,925	1,926,285
Castellón	Castellón de la Plana	6,631.7	446,275	484,566	604,274
Valencia	Valencia	10,804.1	2,117,927	2,216,285	2,581,147
Autonomous Cities		33.1	124,215	137,916	156,613
total		506,268.3	38,871,331	40,847,371	47,021,031

Main cities

name	population 1991-03-01 census	population 2001-11-01 census	population 2010-01-01 estimate
Madrid	2,881,506	2,938,723	3,273,049
Barcelona	1,505,581	1,503,884	1,619,337
Valencia	739,412	738,441	809,267
Sevilla	701,927	684,633	704,198
Zaragoza	603,367	614,905	675,121
Málaga	528,079	524,414	568,507
Murcia	349,040	370,745	441,345
Palma de Mallorca	319,181	333,801	404,681
Palmas de Gran Canaria (Las)	352,641	354,863	383,308
Bilbao	358,467	349,972	353,187
Alicante/Alacant	272,432	284,580	334,418
Córdoba	309,961	308,072	328,547
Valladolid	319,946	316,580	315,522
Vigo	283,110	280,186	297,124
Gijón	265,491	266,419	277,198
Hospitalet de Llobregat (L')	248,521	239,019	258,642
Coruña (A)	243,134	236,379	246,047
Granada	241,471	240,661	239,154
Vitoria-Gasteiz	216,527	216,852	238,247
Elche/Elx	191,713	194,767	230,822
Oviedo	199,549	201,154	225,155
Santa Cruz de Tenerife	211,930	188,477	222,643
Badalona	209,606	205,836	218,886
Cartagena	175,628	184,686	214,165
Terrassa	165,654	173,775	212,724
Jerez de la Frontera	181,602	183,273	208,896
Sabadell	184,859	183,788	207,338
Móstoles	195,311	196,524	206,015
Alcalá de Henares	163,831	176,434	204,120
Fuenlabrada	167,458	182,705	198,973
Pamplona/Iruña	171,150	183,964	197,488
Almería	168,025	166,328	190,013
Leganés	173,163	173,584	187,227
Donostia/San Sebastián	178,229	178,377	185,506
Santander	184,165	180,717	181,589
Castellón de la Plana/Castelló de la Plana	137,741	147,667	180,690
Burgos	161,984	166,187	178,574
Albacete	145,454	148,934	170,475
Getafe	143,629	151,479	169,130
Alcorcón	143,970	153,100	168,299
Salamanca	158,457	156,368	154,462
Logroño	125,617	133,058	152,650
San Cristóbal de La Laguna	127,945	128,822	152,222
Badajoz	134,710	133,519	150,376
Huelva	139,991	142,284	149,310
Tarragona	112,795	113,129	140,184
Lleida	112,207	112,199	137,387
Marbella	98,377	100,036	136,322
León	139,809	130,916	134,012
Cádiz	143,129	133,363	125,826
Dos Hermanas	92,506	101,988	125,086
Mataró	103,265	106,358	122,905
Parla	..	79,213	120,182
Santa Coloma de Gramenet	120,958	112,992	120,060
Torrejón de Ardoz	91,186	97,887	118,441
Jaén	107,184	112,590	116,790
Algeciras	101,972	101,468	116,417
Alcobendas	86,146	92,090	110,080
Ourense	107,965	107,510	108,673
Reus	89,034	89,006	106,622
Torrevieja	..	50,953	101,091
Telde	83,733	87,949	100,900
Barakaldo	98,649	94,478	99,321
Lugo	86,620	88,414	97,635
San Fernando	84,014	88,073	96,689
Girona	..	74,879	96,236
Santiago de Compostela	93,584	90,188	94,824
Cáceres	78,614	82,716	94,179
Lorca	..	77,477	92,694
Coslada	..	77,884	91,218
Talavera de la Reina	..	75,369	88,986
Puerto de Santa María (El)	..	76,236	88,503
Rozas de Madrid (Las)	..	63,385	88,065
Cornellà de Llobregat	80,329	79,979	87,240
Orihuela	..	54,390	87,113
Roquetas de Mar	..	50,096	85,808
Ejido (El)	..	57,877	85,389
Avilés	84,835	83,185	84,202
Guadalajara	..	68,248	83,789
Pozuelo de Alarcón	..	68,214	82,804
Toledo	..	68,382	82,489
Sant Boi de Llobregat	78,632	78,738	82,411
Palencia	79,745	79,797	82,169
Pontevedra	..	74,942	81,981
Sant Cugat del Vallès	..	60,265	81,745
Ceuta	..	71,505	80,579
Getxo	82,974	82,285	80,277
Torrent	..	65,417	79,843
Gandia	..	59,850	79,430
Arona	..	40,826	79,377
Chiclana de la Frontera	..	61,028	78,591
San Sebastián de los Reyes	..	61,884	78,157
Mijas	..	46,232	76,362
Manresa	..	63,981	76,209
Melilla	..	66,411	76,034
Vélez-Málaga	..	57,142	75,623
source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Spain. note: population figures refer to municipalities.