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Spain
Location marker · geographic overview
40° N / 4° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Madrid
- Population
- 48,848,840 2024
- Area
- 505,992 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Spain
Spain (Spanish: España) is famous for its friendly inhabitants, relaxed lifestyle, its cuisine, vibrant nightlife, and world-famous folklore and festivities, and historically the core of the vast Spanish Empire.
Landscape & landmarks
The most popular beaches are the ones along the Mediterranean coast, in the Balearic Islands and in the Canary Islands. Meanwhile, for hiking, the mountains of Sierra Nevada in the south, the Central Cordillera and the northern Pyrenees are the best places. You can also visit some of the National Parks in SpainRead the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
Spanish food can be described as quite light with a lot of vegetables and a huge variety of meat and fish.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-13. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
A few more connections
- Highest point source-listed
- Teide Wikidata record ↗
Cited reference ↗
Wikidata, CC0 1.0. Source-matched, not independently certified. Observation year unavailable; retrieved 2026-09-27.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Southern Europe
- Calling code
- +34
- Internet domain
- .es
- Land border codes
- AND, FRA, GIB, PRT, MAR
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .es. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.