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A province in Spain [note 1] is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities. [1] [2] [3] The current provinces of Spain correspond by and large to the provinces created under the purview of the 1833 territorial re-organization of Spain, with a similar predecessor from 1822 (during the Trienio Liberal) and an earlier precedent in the 1810 Napoleonic division of Spain into ...
The third sphere, that of local entities and local government, comprises three different subdivisions of Spain, with differing political (council), electoral (constituency), or administrative (decentralised services of the state) functions as well as other entities described below.
Rank Name Population (2018) [1] 1 Bilbao: 345,821 2 Vitoria-Gasteiz: 249,176 3 San Sebastián: 186,665 4 Barakaldo: 100,435 5 Getxo: 78,276 6 Irun: 61,983 7 Portugalete
Comarcas of Spain. In Spain, a comarca (Spanish: ⓘ) [a] is either a traditional territorial division without any formal basis, or a group of municipalities, legally defined by an autonomous community for the purpose of providing common local government services. [1] [2] In English, a comarca is equivalent to a district, county, area or zone.
Catalonia's counties [9] (Catalan: comarques, Catalan pronunciation:) form the second-level division and are a subdivision of the vegueries. There are 42 administrative counties since 2023. [9] Aran was a county until 2015, when it formally became an autonomous region, but it is still often included in county lists and maps as one. [7]
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The Basque Government's statistics department Eustat has divided the districts using a 20-comarca model [1] (seven in Biscay, seven in Gipuzkoa and six in Álava) [2] in its reports relating to the local economy and demographic trends on a consistent basis since at least 1999:
A European report said that one of the most important problems facing local governments in Spain is the very high number of little towns with a low number of inhabitants. [ 10 ] The area of the municipal territory (Spanish: término municipal ) usually ranges 2–40 km 2 , but some municipalities span across a much larger area, up to the 1,750. ...